DUCHAMP IS THE ORACLE
I keep coming back to Duchamp. Even as my reading and research continues to widen, Duchamp is the oracle. For example, I was re-skimming Tomkin’s absolutely excellent biography on Duchamp. I opened the book...
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BOOK DELAYS
I’m sorry, but I need to jump in here with a Transparent Drawing book delivery update. This is prompted by a reader who just wrote to me saying that they canceled their order with...
THE BOOK HAS SAILED
That is such a great phrase, the book has sailed. This is what my publisher, who is British, wrote to me. The update is that it sailed, or was put on the ship bound...
IMPROVISATION
This page explores the commonality between jazz improvisation as espoused by Bill Evans and our own Form Generation drawings. Time was, improvisation was at the heart of culture. Pre Renaissance, if you played music,...
I’M ON A PLANE
What shapes a plane? What is a plane? In our Transparent Drawings, we draw planes all the time. You might say that to draw an enclosed and resolved form, all we are drawing is...
THE PENCIL MARKS ON THE PAPER
Imagine that you have a pencil and a piece of paper. You proceed to make a few marks with your pencil on your paper. Now stop and look what you have done. You have...
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...
GUGGENHEIM BILBAO
It extends under an ordinary car bridge. The Museum. Gehry’s Guggenheim. It extends under a four lane, mediocre vehicle bridge that spans the river. The bridge runs over the museum. We were just in...
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...
VISUAL CAUSALITY
It is accepted wisdom that we base our understanding of the world on repeated observations of cause and effect. Billiard balls will bounce off of each other in a very predictable way. The coffee...
THROW OUT THE GARBAGE
I really like completing a drawing and then posting it the same day. Somehow, the immediacy of this action is better than posting a drawing done say two years ago. I was thinking about...
SMELLS LIKE MALIC MOULDS
Malic Moulds are, of course, what Duchamp calls the forms he “drew” on his Large Glass. Given my almost fetishistic interest in Duschamp, I have a term that I use when the forms on...
QUICK START
If you have persevered thru any of this, you might be wondering how you would start to do a transparent drawing. You might have an urge to find a piece of paper, a pencil,...
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