(BRUSH) LINES WITHOUT TONES
Some pages ago, we took a look at Lines Without Tones drawings. The lines drawn at that time were from a felt tip pen. And we determined that the basic transparent understanding of forms...
Tagged: DRAWING FROM DRAWING
DRAWING FROM DRAWING – 2
Back in 2016, we introduced the concept of Drawing from Drawing. I find it difficult to believe that it has been two years without another DFD page. So here is another. This drawing sequence...
READY TO BUILD
The fashion industry has it’s ready to wear collections. Why don’t architects have their Ready To Build collections as well? For a quick update on tReady To Build in Transparent Drawing, these pages have...
FOLDING WINGS
On this Monday morning, I wanted to share what I hope is an inspirational design resource. At this link, you will find a paper written by Japanese scientists in which they create holistic and...
WHAT MONDRIAN KNEW
Any time the great poet Charles Wright uses the word transparent, we take notice. “As Mondrian knew, Art is the image of an image of an image, More vacant, more transparent With each repeat...
MUSEUM SKETCHERS
Possibly you have heard of the organization Urban Sketchers. Urban Sketchers do what the title suggests; they sketch in urban settings. And they do it in a group. So there is a social component...
KAWAKUBO – ABSTRACT EXCELLENCE
I can’t stop drawing Kawakubo. Since I saw the Comme des Garcons exhibit at the Met, I have made a Kawakubo inspired Transparent Drawing every day. The more that I look at the photos...
REAL WORLD TRANSPARENT DRAWING
I thought it would be fun to show a couple of real world Transparent Drawings. As long time readers know, I use Transparent Drawing on a daily basis in my office. I think transparently...
FORM GENERATION – AN EXAMPLE
Modernist paintings can be great form generators. Two months ago, we questioned why the iconic modernist painters were content to manipulate two dimensional forms on a two dimensional picture plane. See the page Modernist...
FORM COMBINE
Make a drawing that combines two projected forms of one artist. In our continuing search for fresh form and enclosure generation, let’s consider what I call Form Combine. This results in a transparent drawing...
PERCEPTION AND IMAGINATION
Is there a difference between perception and imagination? That is to ask, is the feeling of perception and the feeling of imagination similar? Let’s think for a moment about the everyday act of perception. ...
NEW MEASUREMENT GROUP
Artists have been pushing back against ideological cultural imperatives since forever. An interesting example is three Chinese artists who called themselves the New Measurement Group. In an attempt to push back against cultural ideological...
NATIONAL TURBULENCE AND UTOPIA
As mentioned before, I am reading Erik Reece’s Utopia Drive. If you missed it, here is a link to the page ARTLESS ART, which brings a Shaker sensibility to what we do here at...
WATER SOLUBLE PENS 1
Some pens are water soluble. In our continuing exploration into drawing instruments that are water soluble (see WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS, for example,) how about water soluble pens? Most felt tip and ball point pens...
DRAW IN WATER
How wet is wet? Very. On the page WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS 2, we introduced the concept of drawing on a wet piece of paper. And I am finding that the wetter the paper, the...
POETIC IMMORTALS
On a recent excursion thru the Metropolitan Museum, I came upon these ink drawings, shown below, of famous Japanese poets. The drawings were done by Sakai Hoitsu (1761-1828) and are titled The 36 Poetic...
I FANTASIZE
I’ve been doing this for about three years now. Three years seems like nothing. Like they say, it is never work when you enjoy what you do. And it never feels like work to...
REPRESENTATIONAL TRUTH
“This is the entire history of Western painting, right here. The struggle to represent things accurately. And then, when we develop a language for rigorously rendering 3D shapes in two-dimensional space, what do we...
STOP, SNAP AND ROLL
A bicycle is the best way to see a countryside. I came to this realization during our recent bicycle tour thru Croatia. On a bike, it is wonderfully easy to stop, snap a photo...
DRAWING FROM DRAWING
I look at a lot of art when I am making my drawings. Artists that I have found inspirational are Amy Sillman, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, and Picasso, to name a few. I thought...
CREATIVE DETAIL
We need to share details of our creative methods and processes. A couple of pages ago, I lamented that we don’t share any of the creative details of how we are inspired. For example,...
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...
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