YOUR DRAWING IS A HAMMER
Our drawings are hammers. A hammer is a tool. Think of a hammer: is there anything that you don’t understand about it? If I asked you to draw a hammer, you would do it...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING
GENERATE FORM LIKE A BYZANTINE
A mantra of Transparent Drawing is Draw Like A Byzantine. And the Byzantines used a lot of gold leaf. I don’t know about you, but my personal stash of gold leaf seems to be...
WORK WITH YOUR HANDS
We work with our hands. We manipulate physical tools, pen, paper and the like, as we craft knowledge of form. Our primary sensory input is visual. We craft our drawings in the analogue. Our...
INPUT – OUTPUT
For the first time, we generate a holistic form in real time, using the fundamentals of Transparent Drawing. The provenance quotient is 100. The authenticity is verified. It is all analogue. There is no...
PAINTER’S TAPE
I’ve become fascinated with the form generation potential of painter’s edge tape. If you have done any painting, you are no doubt aware of this product. It is typically blue, comes in different widths,...
FRANKENTHALER TRANSPARENCY
Helen Frankenthaler painted transparently. She diluted oil paint with turpentine. This resulted in the paint acting more like a stain on the canvas, as it soaked in. The result was her breakthru into a...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING in a growing world of visualization
Guest Author – Jim Barnes (James David Barnes) — 11th April 20201 James Barnes is a practicing architect living in Dallas, TX. He has written extensively on representation, how we see, the perspective, etc....
SURVIVAL IN THE LANDSCAPE
Jay Appleton wrote, in 1975, an absolutely great meditation about how we interpret a visual landscape. He centers his thesis on what he terms Prospect-Refuge theory. -Prospect is the ability to see without being...
DUCHAMP IS THE ORACLE
I keep coming back to Duchamp. Even as my reading and research continues to widen, Duchamp is the oracle. For example, I was re-skimming Tomkin’s absolutely excellent biography on Duchamp. I opened the book...
KRYLON TRANSPARENCY
Spray paint transparency. This is the new Transparent Drawing Assembly that I have begun to draw with. Your first thought might be, how can spray paint that comes from an aerosol can produce transparent...
JUST DO IT
I don’t want you to just read the book. I want you to just do it. My sincere appreciation and thanks to those of you who have a copy of Transparent Drawing thus far....
BOOK IS SHIPPING IN THE US
We made it over the finish line. Hurray! Celebrate! Wonder of Wonders! Transparent Drawing is now shipping in the US! A lifelong friend of mine first ordered the book on Amazon 23 March 2020....
AUTHENTICITY IS THE NEW BEAUTY
If it is true that there is no bad drawing, then what about beauty? Authenticity is the new Beauty. Authenticity is the sui generis of the visual idea. We’re not talking about the authenticity...
BOOK DELAYS
I’m sorry, but I need to jump in here with a Transparent Drawing book delivery update. This is prompted by a reader who just wrote to me saying that they canceled their order with...
DIAGRAM VS. REPRESENTATION
A diagram is a drawing that explains how something works. The antonym of diagram is representational. Diagram and Representation. With these two words, we arrive at the heart of the problem. I find it...
AMAZON ALGORITHMS
When you start out on a project like Transparent Drawing, you have no idea how it will be categorized. Amazon algorithms put it in good company. I had hoped that Transparent Drawing would be...
VISION OF THE BLESSED
Baxandall offers a near mind blowing set of quotes and statements. They describe the Vision of the Blessed. A quote by Maffei, written in 1504, starts things off: “Vision will be so keen that...
THE PROBLEM OF FORM
Written in 1907, Hildebrand’s The Problem of Form, offers a theory of the perception of art. With his Architectonic Method, he states that structure is the true problem of art. It is not imitation,...
DECOLONIZE YOUR MIND
This is a time of profound cultural change. We are coming to grips with our endemic societal repressive and exclusionary practices. Race is one. Art is another. Decolonize your mind. Our adulation of the...
THE BOOK HAS SAILED
That is such a great phrase, the book has sailed. This is what my publisher, who is British, wrote to me. The update is that it sailed, or was put on the ship bound...
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