FRED SANDBACK
Fred Sandback thought in transparency. He is considered a modernist / minimalist great. And there was definitely an interest in transparency, even if this was not explicitly stated by him. He thought in architectural...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING
STRING DRAWING
String Drawing is a new Transparent Drawing Means of Assembly. This joins other assemblies such as Woven Drawing, One Line One Wash, etc. String Drawing is most effective when it is applied to a...
CORB: PAINTER OF SHAPES
How could Le Corbusier have been content to be a painter of shapes? As we have seen in previous pages, Corb considered himself a painter first, and an architect second. And his paintings are...
GERTRUDE GOLDSCHMIDT
She called herself Gego. And she worked at the borderline of the limits of drawing and what a drawing is. She did a series of pieces titled Drawings Without Paper. The photograph of her...
BUILDINGS AS FORM GENERATOR
We now look at a new Transparent Drawing Mode, Buildings As Form Generator. In each drawing, whatever the mode, whatever the type, we end up with fresh, unique forms. We use various sources as...
ON LINE AND FORM
When does a line become a form? Can a line be a form? What happens to a line when it integrates form? These were the questions I was asking myself as I did the...
LEONARDO, TRANSPARENT THINKER
Leonardo was a transparent thinker. He was not a transparent drawer. But his process supports all of the tenants of Transparent Drawing. Why? Well, there seem to be two Leonardos. The first is the...
PICASSO SCULPTURE KNOWLEDGE
Sculptures in museums can be somewhat difficult to knowledge. Especially if the sculpture is hanging on a wall. We analyze Picasso’s Violin 1915. This piece by Picasso, titled Violin 1915, can be interpreted many...
DRAW LIKE BASQUIAT
For some time now, Basquiat’s drawings have been an outlier for me. Their bold, powerful, and elemental qualities have been enormously attractive. It is just that I had not found a way to enter...
ROAD NOTES
Sometimes, you simply can’t slam on the brakes. And when you can’t, Road Notes will help you. Your inability to slam on the brakes so as to take a picture could be for any...
EYE DRAWING
Jochem Hendricks puts marks on paper by simply moving his eyes. He calls this Eye Drawing. He constructed a headset which tracks the movement of his eyes. As his eyes move as he looks...
THEMATIC DRAWING – HOUSE DRESS
As I have developed and evolved Transparent Drawing, I have generated thousands of drawings. Most of the drawings that I do end up being thematic. One of the themes that I always enjoy is...
AUTOMATIC FORM 2
Automatic Form was introduced a few pages ago. That page also touched on historical precedents, which include automatic writing, automatic drawing, etc. I now want to break this down by taking a closer look...
DRAWING PLEIN AIR
I love to see people sketching outdoors. When I see people drawing plein air, I almost want to run up and hug them. Of course, if I did that, I would end up in...
DRAWING OUTSIDE THE BOUNDARY OF FORM
Have you ever tried to visualize what a form looks like before it is resolved? Is there a plasmic, free flowing state of a form before it is a form? What if we draw...
SHIPPING CONTAINER PURITY
There is always an unarguable purity when shipping containers are used in architectural contexts. The pure form / Conceived as pure utility / Is then shifted into another realm of functionality and utility. Uses...
ESPRIT JOUFFRET
Esprit Jouffret’s Elementary Treatise on the Geometry of Four Dimensions, published in 1903, was an act of great heroics. In the book, he drew hypercubes and polyhedra, all in an effort to draw in...
DRAWING FROM DRAWING – PICASSO’S BULL
The first thing you should do is scroll to the bottom of this page. The drawing sequence is from the bottom to the top. This is a Drawing From Drawing (DFD), in which the...
ŠALOUN VILLA
Surprise perfection. That was my first reaction when I unexpectedly came upon this gem during a daylong walk in Prague. I have a soft spot for anything mildly Secessionist. And when it manifests itself...
DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE
Dorothea Rockburne liked to draw. And many of them had layers of transparency. Her principal interest was mathematics. So most of her works have a geometric precision which relates to fundamental properties of arcs,...
AMBIGUITY MODE
Usually, when I put a drawing together with different media, or media in a different order, I have been able to assign a new drawing mode. Some of the modes that have been established...
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