DRAWING MATERIALITY – CUT
Cut a mark. Cut into soft, wet, acrylic paint with a pencil: make a mark. Cut into dry liquid graphite with a Dremel Tool: make a mark. Cut is action. Make cuts.
Tagged: DRAW LIKE A BYZANTINE
LIFE LINES
The lines you have made on your paper will tell you what to do. The key is for each element that you apply to your drawing to have life. Each action is one of...
A BUILDING, BY REQUEST
Why am I not drawing more buildings, like I used to do? Two readers recently asked this question. The drawing below is an attempt to get back to buildings. It is of Hagia Sophia,...
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...
NOTES ON THE SYNTHESIS OF FORM
Christopher Alexander, with their book A Pattern Language, has been a celestial reference from the beginning. So I was intrigued when I realized that they wrote Notes On The Synthesis of Form. He provides...
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...
LIFE IS NOT LIKE AN OIL PAINTING
“Life delineates itself on the canvas called time; and time never repeats: once gone, forever gone, and so is an act: once done, it is never undone. Life is a sumiye-painting, which must be...
TRANSPARENT CUBISM
Historians have divided Cubism into two segments. Analytic and Synthetic. Analytic Cubism happened at the beginning of the movement, including the years 1908-1912. The concepts of Analytic Cubism are central to Transparent Drawing. “It...
DRAW LIKE A BYZANTINE
A new phrase, Draw Like a Byzantine, has crept into these pages without any warning. Let’s try to formalize the meaning of this phrase so as to bring it into our lexicon. To Draw...
ELIMINATE THE VANISHING POINT
You want to Draw Like a Byzantine? Eliminate the vanishing point. Have you ever thought about the cultural hegemony of the act of placing the vanishing point on your paper? There you are, drawing...
INFINITELY EXTENSIVE
John Berger, in the following passage, exhorts us to beware of the habitual gesture, the habitual line, and maybe all habits in general: “The lines of a sign are uniform and regular: the lines...
WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS 3
I thought this might work. I did the thumbnail above more or less absentmindedly, and noticed that the water soluble pencil soaked up the water. In a more or less non thinking manner, I...
WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS 2
These pencils are great. Per the previous WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS page, I did what I said I was going to do. In the drawing at the top, I first wetted the paper completely. And...
WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS
I tried out a water soluble pencil this morning. I didn’t know they existed. I was looking thru the Dick Blick pages, and then realized something like this was made. So I ordered a...
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...
SKETCH DIGITIZATION
While the arc of the sketch universe it long, it bends toward digitization. My apologies to Martin Luther King. I am a Luddite. Anyone who thinks that the answer is one pencil, one piece...
DESIGN TRANSLATOR
We all design under limitations. We might have budget limitations on what we can propose. We might have limitations put upon us by our clients. And another common limitation is architectural review boards. These...
EL LISSITZKY
The Russian constructivists have been a cultural influence upon use here in the West. Many of the current famous architects developed their first architectural responses in the guise of constructivism. I am thinking of...
DRAWING ON AIRPLANES
We are traveling this week. So I prepared this travel related post ahead of time. You’re probably tired of hearing me extol the virtues of drawing...
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