Tagged: ANALOGUE DRAWING
ALL ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
Reading in Bachelard, it was gratifying to hear him contemplate memory, space and time. He posits the theory that memory is free of time. That is to say, our memories are devoid of a...
WHAT IS AND WHAT WILL BE
In Transparent Drawing, you draw to solve what is to be built, and you draw to solve what has already been built. Either way it is the same problem that requires a solution. That...
CHEAP WATERCOLOR SETS
Two pages ago, I offered thoughts on watercolor sets. I also commented on the cost. The three sets that I highlighted were all around $70. In the whole scheme of things, when a tank...
THE LIVING IS FUZZY
Reading more from the Poetics of Space, “His task is that of proceeding phenominologically to images that have not been experienced, and which life does not prepare, but which the poet creates; of living...
PAINTS AND BRUSHES
Christian writes in with the following query: “Just found your site searching for La Tourette images. I was wondering what materials you use and in what order? I’ve been using a water brush and...
SEEING IS KNOWLEDGE
There are so many books sources stacked up on my desk, I have no idea how I will ever get thru them all. And I am starting to get concerned that I am going...
THINKING IN BETWEEN
Es Devlin, who is the most prominent set designer in the world, thinks like a transparent drawer. In Andrew O’Hagen’s article, Imaginary Spaces, in the 28 March 16 issue of The New Yorker, he...
THE PROOF IS ON THE PAPER
Visual Facts is a concept introduced here at transparent drawing. For a very brief primer on Visual Facts, this link takes you to a previous page. The word fact is, etymologically, an act or...
NYIT WORKSHOP – DRAWING 2
This is the second part of the Transparent Drawing workshop held in Professor Frangos’ first year design studio at New York Institute of Technology last week. The first installment can be found on the...
NYIT WORKSHOP – DRAWING 1
Naomi Frangos, Associate Professor of Architecture at New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury Campus, Long Island, heroically invited me to give a Transparent Drawing workshop for her first year architecture design studio. The...
MANDOLIN AND CLARINET
The Transparent Drawing workshop conducted on Monday went super. I will make at least two pages of the drawings that the students did while providing full details of the event. I was hoping to...
SELF-ACCOMPLISHING ABSOLUTE IMAGES
As we have established, images reside in our memories. When we draw, or learn, we add images to our memories. This adding of images to memory only increases the value of images that are...
ELLSWORTH KELLY PLANT DRAWINGS
I have become enamored with the plant drawings of Ellsworth Kelly. These are simple outline drawings of various plant stalks and leaves. I guess what attracts me is their elemental simplicity. Mr. Kelly’s rigorous...
INSIDE OUT
Charles Ellis, who is an architect and educator, wrote to express what he sees as the inside out aspects of Transparent Drawing. He goes on to say that he also like to design from...
OPTIMISM QUOTIENT APPLICATION
We introduced the concept of the Optimism Quotient (OQ). Let’s make a crude / broad brush / thumbnail / back of a napkin attempt at applying the OQ to buildings and see what happens....
OPTIMISM QUOTIENT
“…there is a sort of innate optimism in all works of the imagination” This thought, by Bachelard on page 153, is great. The act of imagining is optimistic. The act of problem solving is...
DRAWING IN AND OUT
“…the mind that imagines follows the opposite path of the mind that observes.” Bachelard, (p151 The Poetics of Space), proposes that observation is opposite to imagining. He is saying that the working of our...
AYRE HOTEL OVIEDO
Another travel related page as we are in Toronto this week. During our recent trip to northern Spain, we spent a night in the Ayre Hotel Oviedo, which was designed by Calatrava. Now, I...
ROCKPORT GRANITE
We are away this week. So I prepared this travel related page ahead of time. When you travel, you don’t have to limit yourselves to drawing buildings. I took me years to realize this. ...
VALUE MINIATURIZATION
“The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it. But in doing this it must be understood that values become condensed and enriched in miniature. One must go beyond logic...
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