DRAWING LIGHT
In Morocco, it is all about the light.
We saw a couple of my attempts to respond to the Moroccan light with the drawings at the page Representational Transparency and Ordinary Building – Morocco.
When light is such a dominant component, then one is tempted to draw representationally. After all, if we are drawing light, then the surfaces on which the light is projected have to be opaque.
At least one would think. At least this is the way we have been taught. Yet the drawing above is an attempt to draw light within a transparent milieu. It tries to show direct light patterns, shade and shadow, all with transparency.
I snapped this photo in a souk in the Medina in the old city of Marrakesh. I snapped the photo with the Transparent Drawing photography method. I made the drawing after I got back.
Lovely drawing. When I think I do what you call “transparent drawings”, and when the building is complicated i also tend to do them so I get how it goes together…
Kate. Thank you so much for your thoughts and input. I would be very interested to see your transparent drawings, or your version of this, or what other terms might be more appropriate. Kurt.