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...
Tagged: DRAWING FROM DRAWING
IS CONTEXT THE NEW CONTENT?
The title above is a quote by Kenneth Goldsmith in his collection of essays titled “Uncreative Writing.” Goldsmith is a conceptual poet. Yet his ideas regarding the provenance of our ideas, specifically within...
LANGUAGE OF TRANSPARENCY
Please consider the following passage from Kepes’ Language of Vision; “If one sees two or more figures overlapping one another, and each of them claims for itself the common overlapped part, then one is...
PUTTING MY MONEY WHERE MY MOUTH IS
When you use the work of another as a starting point, it is amazing how quickly what you are working on becomes your own. I get great enjoyment and inspiration from the paintings and...
THE FIRST TRANSPARENT DRAWING?
Why does everything always lead back to Duschamp? I’ve been pondering this question for quite some time now. Maybe it is just me, but in my continuing quest for new form generation methods, so...
EMOTIONAL FORMS
There is no question that we continually search for new forms. These might take the shape of a watch, a phone or a building. But as enclosure designers we truly are searching for novel...
MISSING ASSOCIATIONS
Associations are very important. This has been said many times in these pages. And has also been said here, the means the methods of strengthening these associations is completely missing from our architectural /...
ANTI-TECHNIQUE
I am wary of watercolor technique. You might call me anti-technique. Open any introduction to watercolor book and the pages are bold and bright and frankly intimidating. Those books demonstrate all sorts of standard...
TRANSPARENT CONTOUR DRAWING
Certainly one of the most powerful tools with which to see is the contour drawing. I guess that is why authors such as Nicolaides in his The Natural Way To Draw essentially starts his...
ARCHITECT BLOGS OF NOTE
There are two architect blogs that pertain to sketching, watercolors and architecture that are fun to check out. Frank Harmon, who is an architect, has a nice blog titled Native Places. This link was...
COFFEE CUP
Transparent Drawing can be done for any object that you see. A couple of mornings ago, I was wondering what to draw. Why not draw something that is right before me? So I drew...
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