100% HUMAN
At Transparent Drawing, the only drawing that has value is one that is produced analogue. If the graphic is not 100% analogue, you can’t call it a drawing. See ANALOGUE DRAWING. And the...
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FRANCIS BACON 2
Francis Bacon: “Tell me, who today has been able to record anything that comes across to us as a fact without causing deep injury to the image?” Sebastian Smee, on page 54 of The...
DESIGN PROVENANCE
Where does the true value of a design lie? What constitutes the cultural value of a design? It is the Design Provenance. Provenance. That’s the best word I can come up with that quantifies...
THE DRAWING FUNCTION
A few pages ago, we spoke about drawing in and drawing out. And we made the analogy of drawing to breathing. The word that we typically apply to breathing is function. We talk about...
NEO-CONCRETE
Architecture or drawing can be understood only thru the filter of a viewer’s subjectivity. This is a core belief of a Brazilian group of artists working in the late 1950s. They called themselves Grupo...
ACT OF DRAWING
This is an excellent and concise meditation on the act of drawing: “Drawing is…at its most basic the product of no more than a pen or pencil taken to a sheet of paper. Any...
EXACT OBSERVATIONS
Ellsworth Kelly on his plant drawings: “They are exact observations…Nothing is changed or added: no shading, no surface marking. They are not an approximation of the thing seen nor are they a personal expression...
FORM COMBINE 2
Here is another Form Combine. This is the result of the combination, or overlay, of two Henry Moore drawing projection. The drawing at the top is the one that I did first. I found...
STRUCTURE AND TRANSPARENCY
Structure is a word that you see in regard to drawing. “As Klee’s art finds in nature its inspiration for abstraction, at the core of his sketchbook is the idea that the student can...
PROCESS AS DRAWING
Drawing is the recording of the intimate gestures of a body. All drawing correlates our movements with our mental clarity. As such drawing provides the one path to spiritual truth about life. It takes...
THE DESIGN SKETCHBOOK
At the site titled The Design Sketchbook, the author has provided Tip 172. And it it titled “How to draw 3D volumes. It’s all about seeing things in transparency.” The Design Sketchbook looks like...
THE WHOLE SPACE
Can you think about space without thinking about form? That is to ask, can space be defined without enclosure and boundaries? Barnett Newman, an important abstract expressionist artist working in the mid 50’s, gave...
PAPER TRANSPARENCY
What if you draw on transparent medium? Decades ago, I used to make drawings on plexiglass. The drawing at the top of this page is an example. I used a Rapidograph ink pen, and...
DRAWING NOT DRAWING
There are four requirements for a drawing, an analogue drawing. Pencil. Paper. Hand. Brain. If any of these items are missing, it is not a drawing. If to make your image, you input digitally,...
ANALOGUE DRAWING
So what do we mean by analogue drawing? These pages use this term frequently. What are the minimum requirements of analogue drawing? Physicality. Physical gesture. Bodily act. Drawing must provide and maintain a direct,...
FORM COMBINE
Make a drawing that combines two projected forms of one artist. In our continuing search for fresh form and enclosure generation, let’s consider what I call Form Combine. This results in a transparent drawing...
POST-DIGITAL DRAWING
In Metropolis Magazine, Sam Jacob wrote a piece titled Architecture Enters the Age of Post-Digital Drawing. The concept of the article is that, in the beginning, architects drew. Then the juggernaut of the machine...
INFORMED OR INVENTIVE
Your Transparent Drawing is either informed or inventive. INFORMED Informed drawing documents what you know. For example, a few pages ago, we addressed the SURVEY DRAWING. A survey drawing is informed drawing: you use...
DRAW WHAT YOU KNOW
Peter Eisenman: “…to allow the subject to have a vision of space that can no longer be put together in the normalizing, classicizing or traditional construct of vision.” “A possible first step in conceptualizing...
HOUSE NOT HOUSE
Would our art be advanced if we eliminated nouns from our design vocabulary? Bachelard advises us that if we want to find the essence of something, we should look to the adjectives. He writes...
SURVEY DRAWING
The act of seeing is one of creation. When we see a building, we need to open ourselves to as wide a bandwith as possible. Belardi, in his “No Day Without a Line” lecture...
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