BOOK UPDATE
In one month from today, the book, Transparent Drawing, will be released. That is according to my publisher’s listing on CoreSource, a US distribution platform. So how do I think it will stack up?...
Tagged: TRANSPARENT DRAWING
FAST FORM GENERATION
Select two transparent drawings as your Source Image. Draw one over the other. Presto. You have a previously unimaginable form generated on your paper. You achieved fast form generation. This was the first time...
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,...
THE ANALOGUE IS THE MEDIUM
Analogue, in these pages, centers on the physical integration that comes from a human hand holding a pencil as marks are made on paper. Pylyshyn broadens our understanding of analogue to include the drawing...
THE PERSPECTIVES
Quick: how many perspective drawing systems are there? You might immediately answer “two…no wait, three.” Ching, for example, lists the one and two point system. If you get adventurous, you might go for a...
COINCIDENT PROJECTION
For a Form Combine, draw three forms with Coincident Projection. That was the task I set before me, as I drew, with a red water soluble pen, three Ottawa lock forms over each other....
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...
FORM REDUCTION
The only term that I can come up with for the drawing above is Form Reduction. It is a systematic approach, and it reduces a form from Edge, to Plane, to Line, to Dot....
RETURN TO DRAWING
The web pages titled Return to Drawing caught my attention. It is a beautiful expose on analogue drawing. Rick and Cindy Black, Architects in Austin, are the authors. Their approach to drawing can be...
IF SOL LEWITT DREW HOLISTIC FORMS
My first encounter with the wall drawings of Sol Lewitt was at Mass MoCA. That was something like 10 years ago. And I have only now realized something fundamental about Lewitt’s drawings: they are...
IMAGINATION AMPLIFICATION
Nat Chard, in his article Paradoxical Sciagraphy, posits a mode of ideation that is beyond what we typically think of as drawing. He has constructed small machines which throws small blobs of paint onto...
MIRROR FORM
Mirroring, or the reflection of an image, is fundamental to Western design. Imagine just about anything: a classical building (the Altes Museum), your phone, your coffee cup, a modern building (Villa Savoye): and it...
ROTATION FORM GENERATION
Rotation Form is a new generation mode. It is very simple. Draw a form. And then rotate it one or more times. With this repetitive overlay of form, you get an armature to use...
AESTHETICS
In our quest for knowledge of form, where does aesthetics fit in? Are aesthetics and holistic form cognition supportive, or mutually exclusive? Goodman, in their book Language of Art, gives their take on the...
DOT TO DOT
Dot to Dot is a new Transparent Drawing Mode. And the steps are very simple:1. Knowledge any form on your paper.2. Where lines meet, deposit a heavy dot.3. Generate a new form by connecting...
ELSWORTH KELLY AUSTIN
Ellsworth Kelly, one of our heroes, designed a building. It is called Austin, and it is a permanent installation at the Blanton Museum of Art, in Austin, TX. What I don’t know is astounding...
MINIMIZE DESIGN
What if you simply set aside all of your usual support technology, and instead, pick up a pencil and a piece of paper, and use only those minimalist tools to continue to work? Emotional...
WET PROOFS
BOOK LAUNCH UPDATE. Rachel at Black Dog Press just sent this photo of the wet proofs of the book. After a bit of research, I learned that wet proofs are done by the printer...
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...
REVERSE PERSPECTIVE
Reverse perspective, or what is also called Byzantine Perspective, is when the geometrical construction on the paper opens toward you, often as a spacetime rupture. Traditional perspective, as defined in Representational Spacetime, is when...
36 POETIC REVISIT
The 36 Poetic Immortals have been a favorite Image Source in these pages. Going back to an image source that you enjoy is a great pleasure. I took this photo at the Chester Beatty...
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