A PERFECT ORDINARY BUILDING
In these pages, we worship ordinary buildings. And I offer to you now the Perfect Ordinary Building. I came upon this on the island of Ios in Greece. Out for a morning walk along...
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THOUGHTFORM
The Tibetin Buddhist practice of thoughtform provides an interesting parallel to our pathway. This is the Tantra practice of the visualization of a fully realized assembly. The assembly that results is typically what we...
SHARD ASSEMBLY
I’m not sure, but this may be a new Transparent Drawing Assembly. For now, I am calling it Shard Assembly. While in Greece a couple of weeks ago, I dutifully toured as many archaeological...
ACROPOLIS DRAWING REPORT
Did you know that you can’t draw on the Acropolis in Athens? Apparently, you need a drawing license. I learned this while we were on the Acropolis last week. We were on the east...
WOMAN KNOWLEDGE
De Kooning’s drawing, Seated Woman, is iconic. All of de Kooning’s work is. And I finally found the courage to try to knowledge this famous drawing. Herewith, I think we need to start a...
WOODLAND SPIRIT
Norval Morrisseau was a Anishinaabe Aboriginal Canadian artist. He painted mystical and spiritual shapes which were inspired by ancient cultural traditions. Artnet uses the term x-ray to describe this visual mode of painting. I...
DRAWING AT THE BOUNDARY OF ART
What does it mean to draw at the boundary of art? Nearest I can tell, it means to draw transparently. For when you do that, you are accessing form. And when you inscribe form,...
INK STICK ASSEMBLY
Ink Stick is a new Transparent Drawing Assembly. And the name says it all: you draw with a stick. Or a feather. Or the end of a broken off pencil. Or with a piece...
BOOK UPDATE
The Black Dog Press website shows Transparent Drawing on their upcoming publications page. At this link, you can see Transparent Drawing within the context of their other upcoming publications: this also gives a look...
KNOWLEDGE STATE
What is your knowledge state? We live in a time where knowledge is now downloadable. Enter any question into Search, and multiple lingual answers are immediately returned. Enter any image into Search, and multiple...
FRED SANDBACK
Fred Sandback thought in transparency. He is considered a modernist / minimalist great. And there was definitely an interest in transparency, even if this was not explicitly stated by him. He thought in architectural...
STRING DRAWING
String Drawing is a new Transparent Drawing Means of Assembly. This joins other assemblies such as Woven Drawing, One Line One Wash, etc. String Drawing is most effective when it is applied to a...
GERTRUDE GOLDSCHMIDT
She called herself Gego. And she worked at the borderline of the limits of drawing and what a drawing is. She did a series of pieces titled Drawings Without Paper. The photograph of her...
BUILDINGS AS FORM GENERATOR
We now look at a new Transparent Drawing Mode, Buildings As Form Generator. In each drawing, whatever the mode, whatever the type, we end up with fresh, unique forms. We use various sources as...
LEONARDO, TRANSPARENT THINKER
Leonardo was a transparent thinker. He was not a transparent drawer. But his process supports all of the tenants of Transparent Drawing. Why? Well, there seem to be two Leonardos. The first is the...
PICASSO SCULPTURE KNOWLEDGE
Sculptures in museums can be somewhat difficult to knowledge. Especially if the sculpture is hanging on a wall. We analyze Picasso’s Violin 1915. This piece by Picasso, titled Violin 1915, can be interpreted many...
DRAW LIKE BASQUIAT
For some time now, Basquiat’s drawings have been an outlier for me. Their bold, powerful, and elemental qualities have been enormously attractive. It is just that I had not found a way to enter...
ROAD NOTES
Sometimes, you simply can’t slam on the brakes. And when you can’t, Road Notes will help you. Your inability to slam on the brakes so as to take a picture could be for any...
EYE DRAWING
Jochem Hendricks puts marks on paper by simply moving his eyes. He calls this Eye Drawing. He constructed a headset which tracks the movement of his eyes. As his eyes move as he looks...
AUTOMATIC FORM 2
Automatic Form was introduced a few pages ago. That page also touched on historical precedents, which include automatic writing, automatic drawing, etc. I now want to break this down by taking a closer look...
DRAWING PLEIN AIR
I love to see people sketching outdoors. When I see people drawing plein air, I almost want to run up and hug them. Of course, if I did that, I would end up in...
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