Writing on drawing

It is fine to say, as many do, that drawing is good for you, but so is singing, and so is the Eurovision Song Contest. The high octane drawing of the twentieth century greats – Matisse, Picasso, Giacometti, Dubuffet, de Kooning, Tàpies, Polke, would be on my list, and certainly Daniel Clowes – is more than this. It breaks through the ‘sound drawing’ decorum preached in the pages of The Studio.Pride, prejudice and the pencil. James Faure Walker. From Writing on Drawing, p. 90

Smith square, Lord North St.

Frank Gehry drawing

Frank Gehry drawing Source:http://kwc.org/blog/archives/resources/2005/gdrawing.jpg

Four Golden Rules of Successful Graphic Design

If you want to succeed as a graphic designer in the digital age, follow these four simple rules (will have to make this as an infographic, as a parody to all those funny infographics online): 1. Always change the colours of your design to the ones opposite to what client has in their branding. 2. Select the most obscure free font you can find online, so that no one else could open your designs without seeing it with fonts switched off. 3. Make the design too big or too small to watch on screen. 4. Most importantly, don't forget to grumble that clients are idiots who don't understand anything!

Shaftesbury Ave

Appropriate wording

- "The worst is better than the best because it can't get any worse"- "Old is the new new"

Some old sketches from Thai trip in December 2013

A tank in Angel, Islington

RGB primaries tables

A test on how rgb primaries multiply onto each other:

Leonardo - accidental images

‘If you look upon an old wall covered with dirt, or the odd appearance of some streaked stones, you may discover several things like landscapes, battles, clouds, uncommon attitudes, humorous faces, draperies, etc. Out of this confused mass of objects, the mind will be furnished with an abundance of designs and subjects perfectly new.’Leonardo Source: http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/deliberate-accident-art

Joseph Albers exhibition at Somerset house

Thomas Malton, A Complete Treatise on Perspective in Theory and in Practice, London, 1776

‘When we look at a road which sweeps before us toward the horizon, we must not say either that the sides of the road are given to us as convergent or that they are given to us as parallel; they are parallel in depth. The perspective appearance is not posited, but neither is the parallelism’. Source: Merleau-Ponty M. (1962). p. 261.

Great internet discovery: Monoskop

A great Friday morning is glorified by a great internet discovery called Monoskop - a collaborative wiki research on the history of art, culture and media technology.

The Large Glass, Marcel Duchamp, 1915-23

Source: Wikimedia

Oxford st

Movement tracking on St Pancras station

Movement tracking St Pancras 1, 2 and 3, pencil, 2014Drawings were done standing opposite the exit from the trains on St. Pancras station.

In this experiment I wanted to trace the movement of people coming towards me:

The idea for two following ones was to represent the shape of a moving crowd, to further investigate its visual impact:

Faces and sketches from train

Paul Klee on Modern Art

55. Paul Klee, On Modern Art, p. 53: "The legend of the childishness of my drawing must have originated from those linear compositions of mine in which I tried to combine a concrete image, say that of a man, with the pure representation of the linear element. Had I wished to present man 'as he is,' then I should have had to use such a bewildering confusion of lines that pure elementary representation would have been out of the question. The result would have been vagueness beyond recognition."

Source: A Thousand Plateaus; Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari; p. NOTES TO PP. 342-350 □ 551