Monthly Archive: March 2018

VIDEO – FORM GENERATION – LOTUS FLOWER 0

VIDEO – FORM GENERATION – LOTUS FLOWER

It is exciting to offer the first Transparent Drawing video titled Form Generation – Lotus Flower.  Form Generation, as faithful readers have come to understand, is one of the three Uses of Transparent Drawing. ...

LINEAR PERSPECTIVE 0

PLATO’S PREDICTION

The linear perspective was invented by the Greeks.  Simultaneously, illusionist depiction had it’s first critic, Plato.  In a previous page, Plato On Perspective, we took a first look at Plato’s objection to representational drawing....

VILLA SAVOYE 0

USE COMBINATION

Transparent Drawing is used to increase our knowledge in the following ways: -Use 1.  Understand existing buildings and objects -Use 2.  Form generation -Use 3.  Real world solutions To this point, these three uses...

DRAWING AT THE MET 0

SKETCHING AT THE MET

I saw two people sketching at the MET’s  David Hockney show. In most museum shows that I see, it is rare to see someone with a sketchbook. Yet these two people were drawing from...

TRANSPARENT DRAWING 45-48 0

SPACETIME ANALYSIS 1

  A few pages ago, we introduced The Four Spacetimes as a way of understanding how Transparent Drawing fits into the history of Western Culture.  So let’s apply The Four Spacetimes to the drawing...