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.
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DRAWING MATERIALITY 5
This is our 5th installment of Drawing Materiality. Because we are 100% analogue, when we draw, we are celebrating our humanity. Make material marks. As any perusal of my Transparent Drawings will...
DRAWING MATERIALITY – TAPE SHIFT
The two drawings on this page, and the drawing a few pages ago, employ what I call Tape Shift (TS). TS is when you shift the location of pieces of tape around on your...
DRAWING MATERIALITY 2 – THE STICKY SIDE
We started the category, Drawing Materiality, awhile ago. And there has not been much follow up. So, to correct that curatorial deficiency, let’s dive back in and see what we have. For this outing,...
SARAN WRAP – DRAWING MATERIALITY
I promised that I would use saran wrap. And now I make “good” on that promise. Cellophane kitchen wrap, or to use the generic term, saran wrap, is transparent. I realized that I was...
DRAWING MATERIALITY
Our drawing tools influence our forms. Drawing is a physical act. Johannes Itten, working at the Bauhaus, developed Vorkurs, which was the foundation course of design. Itten was primarily interested in the fusion of...
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...
JUST DO IT
I don’t want you to just read the book. I want you to just do it. My sincere appreciation and thanks to those of you who have a copy of Transparent Drawing thus far....
STICKBOARD DIGITAL INTERFACE
I’ve come up with a great new digital interface. It’s called the Stickboard. This new product has been designed to eliminate your laptop’s keyboard by fitting directly over it. The Stickboard provides an analogue...
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 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...
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...
SOCIETAL KNOWLEDGE
In these pages, we have bemoaned the subjugation of the visual and the elevation of language. Let’s look a bit closer at how language actually works so we can see what we are up...
DRAWN TO DESIGN 2
A few weeks ago, Eric Jenkens, very kindly responded to my comments on his book, Drawn To Design. Link here to that post. And Eric’s comments can be seen to the right side of...
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