EXPERIMENT 01The Ascending Numbered Edition
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FUTURE FORMS
Lectures and studies on drawing, composition, and form. Next: On Open / Closed Forms.
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CURRENT
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN DESIGN TACTICS
Watch the first lesson, try a free drawing, or study the Egyptian Dog plate. Put a straightedge to the work and share what you discover.
SELECTED
Works.
Graphite drawings on paper.
LECTURE · PART ONE
On Open / Closed Forms
What changes when you close a shape? A chalkboard lecture on weight, balance, and movement in a picture. From Atlanta.
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What changes when you close a shape?
C is open. O is closed. That small difference changes how a picture holds weight, balance, and movement.
Think of the canvas as a field of mass contained by its edges. An open arc lets that field move around it. Close the arc and you contain a second mass inside the first, giving the picture a new weight to balance.
At the chalkboard, Tommy demonstrates how placing partial, open forms first lets you build the balance before closing them. The next question: what happens when the composition opens beyond the edge of the canvas? That is where melodic composition begins.
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THE ARTIST
Tommy Hoppe
Drawings, color, written theory, and public experiments built to make structure visible.
