2015 – Page 19 – Tony's Art School

Orthographic Plan, Elev & 3d Paralines (1 of 3) Jul 22 2015 (click video)

Orthographic Drawings, the typical plan, section and elevations used in drafting also have a lot of potential in the design process. Often, a designer will work back and forth between these drawings to develop a design, as they inform each other. A 3d ‘paraline’ type of drawing is often employed to visualize and test the design that results. The ability to think this way and to employ these types of drawings is a part of any designer’s ‘toolkit’. Actually, it’s fun to play with these drawings after a basic level of skill is acquired.

Orthographic Plan, Elev & 3d Paralines (2 of 3) Jul 22 2015

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Orthographic Plan, Elev & 3d Paralines (3 of 3) Jul 22 2015 (click video)

MASS DRAWING – Architecture – Al Arab, MOMA, Falling Water { Jul 15 2015} click video

GESTURE DRAWING- Architecture – La Sagrada Familia {Jul 15 2015} click video

MAGIC CARPETS (No video yet)

I like to combine PShop and traditional mediums. In this case I did a very small, 5 inch, watercolour with acrylic ink mark-making on paper. I used my ‘tonal design ‘method. I scanned and used PShop to mirror, flip and repeat to get several designs. Beats the old fold-the-paper-in-half-and-press technique. Here is the 5″ WATERCOLOUR & INK ORIGINAL IMAGE_edited-1 original with the mirrored results below.

SPACE-HEAD “THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE”…MASTERS THESIS

Earlier this year, RL thought of developing the “space-head” exercise from my class for use in her Masters Thesis in Education. I wondered how she made out: On Sun, 07 Jun 2015 20:00:03 -0700, RL wrote: “Hi Tony, How nice to hear from you! All aspects of my thesis were well received, but none more so than the video of the “space-head” you helped me to create. The iMovie/self-portrait I made was suggestive, just as you say, of the process of emergence – in all its ambiguity and uncertainty – that I experience in my professional life as an educator and that was very much a part of my thesis work. I’m very grateful for the opportunity I had to work with you and all that I learned about drawing and about myself as a result. … Looking forward to seeing you in July at the Shadbolt.” RL

Here is where the title expression came from:

“Antigonish” is an 1899 poem by American educator and poet Hughes Mearns. Check it and him out in Wiki. It is also known as “The Little Man Who Wasn’t There“, It is a very ambiguous, existential, ghostly and suggestive phrase that has been used to inspire plays, lines in movies, a hit song, novels and lately a Coen Bros. movie. It also seemed to fit with an exercise that I use in my classes in drawing. Here we try to draw a head – without actually directly drawing the head, by working as if is a form under water and drawing the water instead of the form, thus revealing the face through many small ‘encounters’. I call it a ‘space drawing’, or ‘space-head’ because we try to draw the space and thus reveal the head-form. Sounds strange, but it builds the ability to see space as an actual, tangible substance, just as important as form. (Here I refer to 3D sculptural/architectural space- counterpart of form, not the 2D space of negative flat shapes.)

Year: 2015