DRAWING OUTSIDE THE BOUNDARY OF FORM
Have you ever tried to visualize what a form looks like before it is resolved? Is there a plasmic, free flowing state of a form before it is a form? What if we draw...
Tagged: TRANSPARENT DRAWING
DRAWING FROM DRAWING – PICASSO’S BULL
The first thing you should do is scroll to the bottom of this page. The drawing sequence is from the bottom to the top. This is a Drawing From Drawing (DFD), in which the...
ŠALOUN VILLA
Surprise perfection. That was my first reaction when I unexpectedly came upon this gem during a daylong walk in Prague. I have a soft spot for anything mildly Secessionist. And when it manifests itself...
DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE
Dorothea Rockburne liked to draw. And many of them had layers of transparency. Her principal interest was mathematics. So most of her works have a geometric precision which relates to fundamental properties of arcs,...
AMBIGUITY MODE
Usually, when I put a drawing together with different media, or media in a different order, I have been able to assign a new drawing mode. Some of the modes that have been established...
ROBERTO MATTA
Roberto Matta was a Chilean who is tagged with being a surrealist. And he operated with some transparency in his drawings. He was born in 1911, and actually died not all that long ago...
RONCHAMP PROVENANCE
Robin Evans, in The Projective Cast, offers an interesting history of Corb’s design of Ronchamp Chapel. These pages have called for, time and again, the revelation of how our culturally iconic designs were generated. ...
ANALYTICAL WATERCOLOR
I hate Pinterest. I’ve said this before. But now there is a new Pinterest board in which many of my watercolors have been pinned. It is called Analytical Watercolor. And the author saw fit...
AUTOMATIC FORM
Automation pervades our life. Automation is a mechanical or electrical process where the next action to take is based on data from the previous action with minimal human input. Our cars won’s run and...
BLOOD AND GRISTLE
The physicality of drawing. The physical connection that drawing provides has been made time and again by so many, that it is almost goes without saying. We draw with our bodies. We internalize knowledge...
SOMETHING ABOUT THE SOLSTICE
“It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being (and let us not ask whether or not this is possible; I think we must believe that...
WOVEN DRAWING
What is woven drawing? This is where you draw the form as if it is woven. Typically, a weaving is a matrix of linear elements that, by overlapping each other as they cross, form...
SURFACE TO SKELETON
The Grasshopper algorithmic design software has a feature called ‘surface to skeleton.’ Once you have a form established, this feature allows a generation of what they call a skeleton of the structure. While I’m...
HEROD’S TEMPLE
At the Jewish Museum in Berlin, there was a model depicting Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem. Although, of course, there have been innumerable passing references to it over the decades, I had never stopped to...
DESIGN BLOCKCHAIN 2
Do you want your design to be done by a human or by the machine? This will be one of the key questions as we move toward automation. Authenticity, as I said a few...
NEUE WACHE
Neue Wache, in Berlin, leaves a lasting impression. It’s current use is as a memorial to all victims of war. In the center is a Käthe Kollwitz sculpture titled Mother with her Dead Son....
ROTHKO’S LIGHT BAND
I can’t help it now. Whatever artwork I look at, I always think, why didn’t they do that transparently? It would have been so much more interesting. I’ve said this before many times. So,...
QUANTIFIABLE ARCHITECTURE AND HISTORICISM
Buildings in historic districts have to be pretty. As I have mentioned before, I am a small town architect. And our entire village is on the National List of Historic Places. As with any...
(BRUSH) LINES WITHOUT TONES
Some pages ago, we took a look at Lines Without Tones drawings. The lines drawn at that time were from a felt tip pen. And we determined that the basic transparent understanding of forms...
TRANSPARENT IMPRINT
Draw with Transparent Imprint. This is easy. All you have to do is draw on one page of your sketchbook, and keep the sketch completely wet. Then close your sketchbook and press for 10...
LEONARDO’S INFINITE IMAGES
Leonardo da Vinci: “every opaque body fills the surrounding air with infinite images, by which infinite pyramids diffused in the air present this body all in all and in every part.” A II, 6v....
SPACETIME ANALYSIS – 2
It has been awhile since we did a Spacetime Analysis. So I thought it would be fun to take a drawing that I like to see what sort of spacetime knowledge can be learned. ...
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