WHY DO WE DRAW?
Why do we draw? Why we draw is a fundamental theme of these pages. By contrast, these pages are really not about how we draw. That sort of thing has been covered by the...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING
FOUNDATION OF MINDFULNESS
I really like the way Buddhist thought applies to Transparent Drawing. In the Seven Factors of Awakening, Buddhism has primary goals of integration, holism, complete understanding, renunciation of petty facets of the real world,...
SECRET KNOWLEDGE
When you see a great painting by a Renaissance master, we never stop to think, how did they do that? We just assume, or at least I assume, that the Rembrandt portrait or the...
CROATIA MODERNISM
The modenism is Croatia is out of this world. That is because it is inspired by authentic socialist modernism. I said this before a couple of years ago. And I’m saying it again, now,...
THE DRAWING ORGAN
You know how they say that the brain is the most important sex organ? Well, the same is true for drawing; your brain is the most important drawing organ. Now, we are typically taught...
SELF TIME EXPOSURE
It never occurred to me to draw a plaza, or square, or piazza, until Teresa suggested it. We had walked thru St. John’s Square in Trogir, Croatia, for three days. We had gone into...
THE WIREFRAME
Does the drawing above look like a wireframe drawing? Or, do any of the drawings on this site look like wireframes? I don’t think they do. Yet in two recent conversations with friends about...
LINES WITHOUT TONES
What about lines without tones? To date, I think every drawing in these pages is comprised of lines with tones. So can there be a useful and knowledgeable transparent drawing without tones? I did...
THE ELEMENTS
Quick, name the seven elements of art. Most definitions of art list what they call the seven elements, which are form, line, shape, texture, value, space, and color. These definitions will go on to...
EVERYDAY MODERNISM
On a forced march thru Tokyo, I was stunned to have this building suddenly appear across a parking lot. When you see something like this, it almost takes your breath away. I call this...
CHRISTIANITY AND THE LINEAR PERSPECTIVE
Without Christianity, would the linear perspective have been invented / discovered? The interior of the great basilicas were, when you either drew or painted them, automatically in perspective. Did the confluence of Christianity and...
MINAMIDERA
Two heroes that we have referenced in these pages are the artist James Turrell and the architect Tadao Ando. So I am happy to report that I was able to experience a confluence of...
CARICATURE
Caricature is a class of drawing that we have not addressed. Yet the fundamental concepts and technique apply 100% to Transparent Drawing. Hockney summarizes it nicely when he states, describing the mode of Frans...
ORDINARY BUILDING JAPAN
While walking thru a rural Japanese village, this Ordinary Building Japan, or more accurately this residence, caught my eye. As it was on a corner lot, I was able to take two photos from...
REPRESENTATIONAL SPACETIME
I need this page to clearly state how Representational Spacetime is defined in Transparent Drawing. Representational Spacetime is one of the Four Spacetimes, and I realized that I don’t have a page specifically addressing...
SECOND DOOR OF LIBERATION
In Buddhism, the Second Door of Liberation is signlessness / animata. As we defined in the previous Sign Page, sign means an appearance of an object that is in our perception. An object that...
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART
I didn’t know there was a LeCorbusier building in Tokyo. Yet there is. It is called the National Museum of Western Art. Many sources say that it is one of his least known buildings. ...
ANDO MUSEUM – NAOSHIMA
The drawing above most likely looks incomprehensible. And I think that’s ok, given the initial incomprehension that you experience when you enter this building. The Ando Museum in Naoshima, Japan, one of the Art...
VIDEO – FORM GENERATION – LOTUS FLOWER
It is exciting to offer the first Transparent Drawing video titled Form Generation – Lotus Flower. Form Generation, as faithful readers have come to understand, is one of the three Uses of Transparent Drawing. ...
PLATO’S PREDICTION
The linear perspective was invented by the Greeks. Simultaneously, illusionist depiction had it’s first critic, Plato. In a previous page, Plato On Perspective, we took a first look at Plato’s objection to representational drawing....
USE COMBINATION
Transparent Drawing is used to increase our knowledge in the following ways: -Use 1. Understand existing buildings and objects -Use 2. Form generation -Use 3. Real world solutions To this point, these three uses...
SKETCHING AT THE MET
I saw two people sketching at the MET’s David Hockney show. In most museum shows that I see, it is rare to see someone with a sketchbook. Yet these two people were drawing from...
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