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SET YOURSELF UP FOR FAILURE
In many instances, I never know how my drawing is going to turn out. That’s because I try to incorporate new means and methods whenever I have a new idea. We have talked about...
PERCEPTION AND IMAGINATION
Is there a difference between perception and imagination? That is to ask, is the feeling of perception and the feeling of imagination similar? Let’s think for a moment about the everyday act of perception. ...
INFINITELY EXTENSIVE
John Berger, in the following passage, exhorts us to beware of the habitual gesture, the habitual line, and maybe all habits in general: “The lines of a sign are uniform and regular: the lines...
I’M ON A PLANE
What shapes a plane? What is a plane? In our Transparent Drawings, we draw planes all the time. You might say that to draw an enclosed and resolved form, all we are drawing is...
WHERE THE NO WORDS ARE
A passage from John Berger’s Bento’s Sketchbook: “Where there are no words, knowledge comes through physical acts and through the space through which those acts are made; by permitting each act the space conferred...
DRAWING CONTINUUM
Let’s put the following all into one bowl and stir: lingual characters, scientific graphs, pictograms, logographic characters, petroglyphs, transparent drawing, heiroglyphics, etc. All of these we produce with a pencil and paper. Ergo, they...
THE END OF DESIGN
You have an idea. You draw the idea on your paper. Then you describe the idea in words. That description, using words, makes your concept static. Think about it. There you are, happily drawing...
WAR ON LANGUAGE
Maybe it is just me, but it seems that everywhere I read, very negative things are said about language. I have recorded some of these examples in these pages. It is becoming clear that...
THE PENCIL MARKS ON THE PAPER
Imagine that you have a pencil and a piece of paper. You proceed to make a few marks with your pencil on your paper. Now stop and look what you have done. You have...
YEAR IN REVIEW
How do you generate new forms? More to the point, can there be a method which can be used to for novel form and enclosure generation? This question is one of the central points...
WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS 3
I thought this might work. I did the thumbnail above more or less absentmindedly, and noticed that the water soluble pencil soaked up the water. In a more or less non thinking manner, I...
WATER SOLUBLE PENS 1
Some pens are water soluble. In our continuing exploration into drawing instruments that are water soluble (see WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS, for example,) how about water soluble pens? Most felt tip and ball point pens...
DRAW IN WATER
How wet is wet? Very. On the page WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS 2, we introduced the concept of drawing on a wet piece of paper. And I am finding that the wetter the paper, the...
WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS 2
These pencils are great. Per the previous WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS page, I did what I said I was going to do. In the drawing at the top, I first wetted the paper completely. And...
WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS
I tried out a water soluble pencil this morning. I didn’t know they existed. I was looking thru the Dick Blick pages, and then realized something like this was made. So I ordered a...
WORDLESS ART
“Architecture seems to be confined to drawings and hope. Can this essentially wordless art – that is, this art that lies just beyond the reach of words – negotiate the barriers of its present...
I FANTASIZE
I’ve been doing this for about three years now. Three years seems like nothing. Like they say, it is never work when you enjoy what you do. And it never feels like work to...
MUSEUM PROCEDURE
Everyone at a museum show has their phones out taking photos of the wonderful artwork. What you don’t see people doing is taking a photo of the name of the artwork. You need to...
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