IMPROVISATION
This page explores the commonality between jazz improvisation as espoused by Bill Evans and our own Form Generation drawings. Time was, improvisation was at the heart of culture. Pre Renaissance, if you played music,...
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COINCIDENT PROJECTION
For a Form Combine, draw three forms with Coincident Projection. That was the task I set before me, as I drew, with a red water soluble pen, three Ottawa lock forms over each other....
FORM REDUCTION
The only term that I can come up with for the drawing above is Form Reduction. It is a systematic approach, and it reduces a form from Edge, to Plane, to Line, to Dot....
RETURN TO DRAWING
The web pages titled Return to Drawing caught my attention. It is a beautiful expose on analogue drawing. Rick and Cindy Black, Architects in Austin, are the authors. Their approach to drawing can be...
IF SOL LEWITT DREW HOLISTIC FORMS
My first encounter with the wall drawings of Sol Lewitt was at Mass MoCA. That was something like 10 years ago. And I have only now realized something fundamental about Lewitt’s drawings: they are...
MIRROR FORM
Mirroring, or the reflection of an image, is fundamental to Western design. Imagine just about anything: a classical building (the Altes Museum), your phone, your coffee cup, a modern building (Villa Savoye): and it...
ROTATION FORM GENERATION
Rotation Form is a new generation mode. It is very simple. Draw a form. And then rotate it one or more times. With this repetitive overlay of form, you get an armature to use...
DOT TO DOT
Dot to Dot is a new Transparent Drawing Mode. And the steps are very simple:1. Knowledge any form on your paper.2. Where lines meet, deposit a heavy dot.3. Generate a new form by connecting...
MINIMIZE DESIGN
What if you simply set aside all of your usual support technology, and instead, pick up a pencil and a piece of paper, and use only those minimalist tools to continue to work? Emotional...
CHALKBOARD ASSEMBLY
A few questions:-Can you first do dark then light?-Does it get you anything if you first apply a very dark tone, and then apply light tones over it?-Will the forms of the light tone...
REVERSE PERSPECTIVE
Reverse perspective, or what is also called Byzantine Perspective, is when the geometrical construction on the paper opens toward you, often as a spacetime rupture. Traditional perspective, as defined in Representational Spacetime, is when...
SHARD ASSEMBLY
I’m not sure, but this may be a new Transparent Drawing Assembly. For now, I am calling it Shard Assembly. While in Greece a couple of weeks ago, I dutifully toured as many archaeological...
WOVEN DRAWING – VILLA SAVOYE
We introduced Woven Drawing as a Transparent Drawing Assembly few pages back. So to kick around some more one of our favorites, what about a Woven Villa Savoye? If you let your eye follow...
DRAWING AT THE BOUNDARY OF ART
What does it mean to draw at the boundary of art? Nearest I can tell, it means to draw transparently. For when you do that, you are accessing form. And when you inscribe form,...
INK STICK ASSEMBLY
Ink Stick is a new Transparent Drawing Assembly. And the name says it all: you draw with a stick. Or a feather. Or the end of a broken off pencil. Or with a piece...
STRING DRAWING
String Drawing is a new Transparent Drawing Means of Assembly. This joins other assemblies such as Woven Drawing, One Line One Wash, etc. String Drawing is most effective when it is applied to a...
BUILDINGS AS FORM GENERATOR
We now look at a new Transparent Drawing Mode, Buildings As Form Generator. In each drawing, whatever the mode, whatever the type, we end up with fresh, unique forms. We use various sources as...
ON LINE AND FORM
When does a line become a form? Can a line be a form? What happens to a line when it integrates form? These were the questions I was asking myself as I did the...
LEONARDO, TRANSPARENT THINKER
Leonardo was a transparent thinker. He was not a transparent drawer. But his process supports all of the tenants of Transparent Drawing. Why? Well, there seem to be two Leonardos. The first is the...
DRAW LIKE BASQUIAT
For some time now, Basquiat’s drawings have been an outlier for me. Their bold, powerful, and elemental qualities have been enormously attractive. It is just that I had not found a way to enter...
ROAD NOTES
Sometimes, you simply can’t slam on the brakes. And when you can’t, Road Notes will help you. Your inability to slam on the brakes so as to take a picture could be for any...
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