AESTHETICS
In our quest for knowledge of form, where does aesthetics fit in? Are aesthetics and holistic form cognition supportive, or mutually exclusive? Goodman, in their book Language of Art, gives their take on the...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING
DOT TO DOT
Dot to Dot is a new Transparent Drawing Mode. And the steps are very simple:1. Knowledge any form on your paper.2. Where lines meet, deposit a heavy dot.3. Generate a new form by connecting...
ELSWORTH KELLY AUSTIN
Ellsworth Kelly, one of our heroes, designed a building. It is called Austin, and it is a permanent installation at the Blanton Museum of Art, in Austin, TX. What I don’t know is astounding...
MINIMIZE DESIGN
What if you simply set aside all of your usual support technology, and instead, pick up a pencil and a piece of paper, and use only those minimalist tools to continue to work? Emotional...
WET PROOFS
BOOK LAUNCH UPDATE. Rachel at Black Dog Press just sent this photo of the wet proofs of the book. After a bit of research, I learned that wet proofs are done by the printer...
TIME AT CREATION
So let’s try looking at this in another way. When you draw, what you really do is create time. We already know that to knowledge form requires time. (See Time Of Seeing.) Your act...
CHALKBOARD ASSEMBLY
A few questions:-Can you first do dark then light?-Does it get you anything if you first apply a very dark tone, and then apply light tones over it?-Will the forms of the light tone...
ACTS OF RESISTANCE
In the November 2019 print issue of ArchitectureBoston, Nalina Moses structures a great defense and call to arms regarding what, in these pages, we call drawing. The article can be found online here. “Architects...
REVERSE PERSPECTIVE
Reverse perspective, or what is also called Byzantine Perspective, is when the geometrical construction on the paper opens toward you, often as a spacetime rupture. Traditional perspective, as defined in Representational Spacetime, is when...
36 POETIC REVISIT
The 36 Poetic Immortals have been a favorite Image Source in these pages. Going back to an image source that you enjoy is a great pleasure. I took this photo at the Chester Beatty...
A PERFECT ORDINARY BUILDING
In these pages, we worship ordinary buildings. And I offer to you now the Perfect Ordinary Building. I came upon this on the island of Ios in Greece. Out for a morning walk along...
THOUGHTFORM
The Tibetin Buddhist practice of thoughtform provides an interesting parallel to our pathway. This is the Tantra practice of the visualization of a fully realized assembly. The assembly that results is typically what we...
SHARD ASSEMBLY
I’m not sure, but this may be a new Transparent Drawing Assembly. For now, I am calling it Shard Assembly. While in Greece a couple of weeks ago, I dutifully toured as many archaeological...
ACROPOLIS DRAWING REPORT
Did you know that you can’t draw on the Acropolis in Athens? Apparently, you need a drawing license. I learned this while we were on the Acropolis last week. We were on the east...
WOVEN DRAWING – VILLA SAVOYE
We introduced Woven Drawing as a Transparent Drawing Assembly few pages back. So to kick around some more one of our favorites, what about a Woven Villa Savoye? If you let your eye follow...
WOMAN KNOWLEDGE
De Kooning’s drawing, Seated Woman, is iconic. All of de Kooning’s work is. And I finally found the courage to try to knowledge this famous drawing. Herewith, I think we need to start a...
WOODLAND SPIRIT
Norval Morrisseau was a Anishinaabe Aboriginal Canadian artist. He painted mystical and spiritual shapes which were inspired by ancient cultural traditions. Artnet uses the term x-ray to describe this visual mode of painting. I...
DRAWING AT THE BOUNDARY OF ART
What does it mean to draw at the boundary of art? Nearest I can tell, it means to draw transparently. For when you do that, you are accessing form. And when you inscribe form,...
INK STICK ASSEMBLY
Ink Stick is a new Transparent Drawing Assembly. And the name says it all: you draw with a stick. Or a feather. Or the end of a broken off pencil. Or with a piece...
BOOK UPDATE
The Black Dog Press website shows Transparent Drawing on their upcoming publications page. At this link, you can see Transparent Drawing within the context of their other upcoming publications: this also gives a look...
ROCKET ENGINES
It was a hot night and the TV image was grainy. Apollo 11 had already landed on the moon, and Armstrong’s moon walk started at around 11 PM. I was working on the large...
KNOWLEDGE STATE
What is your knowledge state? We live in a time where knowledge is now downloadable. Enter any question into Search, and multiple lingual answers are immediately returned. Enter any image into Search, and multiple...
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