DRAWING MATERIALITY – CUT
Cut a mark. Cut into soft, wet, acrylic paint with a pencil: make a mark. Cut into dry liquid graphite with a Dremel Tool: make a mark. Cut is action. Make cuts.
Cut a mark. Cut into soft, wet, acrylic paint with a pencil: make a mark. Cut into dry liquid graphite with a Dremel Tool: make a mark. Cut is action. Make cuts.
The lines you have made on your paper will tell you what to do. The key is for each element that you apply to your drawing to have life. Each action is one of...
Humans produce still images (paintings, photographs, etc) and moving images (films, videos, slide displays, etc.). There are no still images in human visual perception: the area of light that is focused on your retina...
What are the marks that you make on the surface? What is your working balance? Are they lines? Does the term line confuse the issue? A line as defined by Euclidian modalities does...
Paul Klee famously stated that a line is “a dot that went for a walk.” You make a dot when your pencil touches your paper, and that dot goes for a walk because of...
The design of a house can be expressed in a mathematical formula. So let us see how we can incorporate mathematical equations as part of our design process. When a client approaches...
In Transparent Drawing, I used the words simultaneous, and simultaneously, 20 times. Drawing simultaneously is one of my central concepts. As I took these photos a few days ago in the countryside of Girona,...
There have been a spate of articles asking the question, will AI (Artificial Intelligence) make architects obsolete? Oliver Wainwright’s article in The Guardian is worth focusing on. In the article, Wainwright interviews Ethan Mills,...
I happened upon course planning material for early grade teachers. These sources use the terms 2D Shapes, and 3D Shapes. They never use the term form. Shapes are not Forms. So let’s say...
You can’t understand architecture with regard to function. Function is a bore. Function has never made sense. Function is fake. “Culture imposes accepted understanding of function.” Deetz. “Where function enters into the...
Architects, to maintain their license to practice, need to earn a certain number of what are called Continuing Education credits per year. Many of you readers are architects, and are of course familiar with...
Your only concern should be to produce forms that are authentic and responsive. You can only be concerned with your acts of design. This is all you can do. You cannot be concerned with...
If you are a designer, what do you do as design exercises? Athletes and musicians engage in strengthening exercises. If you are of the lingual bent, you develop sets of phonemes. As a...
You engage in processes of perception and visualization continually. You are in a continuous state of putting together a construct of the external world. Your visual input is continually changing, and you are continually...
We develop greater resonance for the forms we generate when we have a working knowledge of the geometry of closed form. We study, and thus utilize, external forms to yield basic principals of geometry....
This is our 5th installment of Drawing Materiality. Because we are 100% analogue, when we draw, we are celebrating our humanity. Make material marks. As any perusal of my Transparent Drawings will...
We teach ourselves. The role of instructors / professors / et. al. is to foment learning. You (YES YOU!) then have to do what is necessary for the assimilation of knowledge. This is my...
Negative space. Now that is a stupid art term. What does that really mean? I don’t think anyone really knows. Negative space is just a cultural artifact that those who are aesthetically woke, accept...
The two drawings on this page, and the drawing a few pages ago, employ what I call Tape Shift (TS). TS is when you shift the location of pieces of tape around on your...
Where does the light come from? We light from within. Many pages ago, we eliminated the confusion of shadows. Our transparent forms, existing as possible experiences, do not cast shadows. And the primary reason...
We started the category, Drawing Materiality, awhile ago. And there has not been much follow up. So, to correct that curatorial deficiency, let’s dive back in and see what we have. For this outing,...
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