architalx[notes] 2023

my first year in six years i'm not on the architalx board meant that i only attended one lecture this year.  wanting to keep the tradition alive i took notes in the form of doodles during the lecture.

[arch]inktober 2022 week 3

@floorplans_of_the_past

michelangelo

lego

minaret

mural

clt

cupola

 

archinktober year [4]

 you know it's fall when archinktober rolls around.  here's the prompt list for year 4!

[arch]inktober 2020 - week 3

veiled

border

saw it in a movie

stoic

covid

isometric

transit

 

[arch]inktober 2020 - week 1

tools

furniture

denise scott brown

door

distance

symbolic

renaissance

 

[arch]inktober 2019 - week 2

 change order

 brutalist

 dream spot

 park

 relief

high rise

line weight

[arch]inktober - week 4

week four found me a little sad this exercise was almost over.  after nearly a month, i had become accustomed to thinking about what i would sketch during the day, then taking 30 to 45 minutes a night just to do something creative. it was calming. it was relaxing.  i enjoyed it.

i started this whole experiment thinking it would improve my sketching, in all honesty, i think it simply improved my mood.  having just a few moments to be creative for no specific reason was incredibly therapeutic.  much like on my honeymoon when i was relaxed and had time to sketch, or my mom and her group painting classes.  in certain personalty types, there's just something about creating something beautiful where once there was nothing.

now, i'm not saying all my sketches were beautiful (need i mention that bay window from week two) but there really is a rhythm to life.  we spend a lot of time "taking in", movies, music, news, meetings, emails, all sorts of digital information... sometimes it's good to "put something out" into this world too.

breath in, breath out...

both important to live.    

vernacular

modern

wildlife

glass

rural

transition

materiality

site

wedge

decay

[arch]inktober - week 3

by week three i had settled into a bit of a rhythm, sketching and shading with the ink pen, then using a beige or grey marker for a little bit of color.  i found my new found rhythm to be a positive and a negative.  on one side, i felt the whole month long experiment was so i could get just ever so slightly better at sketching.  sketching in the same style, while trying to make slight improvements allowed me to do this, but on the other hand, i felt like i was being less experimental as i had been when the month started.

this week found me purposely making my drawings "sketchier" in the hopes they wouldn't look as "cartoon-y" as the first week.  in general i was pleased with the outcome, but i've noticed that even with a sketchy look it still extremely important to get the perspective lines correct.  without the right lines everything just looks wobbly.  everything seemed to come together really well on my "pragmatic" sketch, which featured a barn from the flint hills region of kansas.

section

pragmatic

art deco

urban

historic

void

detail

[arch]inktober - week 2

week two found me continuing trying out the markers....up until i rendered the ugliest bay window i've ever seen.  after that i stuck to just plain black ink with an occasional grey or beige marker thrown in for shading.  other than creating [clown] windows, week two found me exploring portland, maine more to find scenes to sketch.

sketching has a way of making you focus on details.  there are now several places around town i feel i see in a different light having sketched them.


week two

 stone

 fenestration

 shadows

 reinforce

 entourage

 pattern

 water