Archive for the ‘drawing’ tag
Selections from “Snowflakes” (1863)

Illustrations from “Snowflakes: A Chapter from the Book of Nature”, published in 1863. See also Wilsom Bentley’s snow crystal photographs on Wikimedia Commons.
Via: Public Domain Review
“Memorial To Newton”


Fantastic proposed architectural monument to Isaac Newton by Etienne-Louis Boullee from 1784. Never built, I particularly like the glowing orb rotating within a large sphere in the second image.
Via: Convozine.com
Further Blobs > Drawing

Further version of the blob-tracking drawing software for my Digital Drawing class – goes into use tomorrow!
Image Tracking/Drawing
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A few (not quite working) screenshots of a image tracking/drawing software I’m writing in Processing today for my Digital Drawing class.
Patterning in “Asagao Montagari”
“Asagao Montagari; 5 Hen; Gekan Kyozan Rojin Saku; Kunisada Ga” by Rojin Kyosan, published in 1853.
Buggy Students

Hung next to some really great drawings by Eddie Dominguez’s Drawing 101 students.
Traite Theorique Et Pratique De L’Art De Beatir
While looking for another book at the Architecture Library, I found this beautiful book of plates form 1847. I took some photographs, but found that a. my cell phone didn’t do a great job, and b. the New York Public Library did it much better than I ever could.
The book is Traite Theorique Et Pratique De L’Art De Beatir by Jean Rondelet. The book is about 12 x 24″ and absolutely beautiful.








