For under $75 you can be sketching in comfort either sitting or standing out on-location. This set-up has served me well and easily packs up for quick on the move guerrilla sketcher style. Below are the three items with links to where to buy them.
Macrem PT55 Travel Tripod
Light and Sturdy Tripod
Save time, I vouch for this tripod. Been traveling with it for 2 years and easily attaches to my backpack or inside. But check with your airline to see if they allow this as a carry-on. Last time I had to check my bag in with all the tripods and such. $35.99 – Cant beat this price. Mactrem Travel Tripod sold on Amazon
Duals boath as your drawing board and to secure your paper or sketchbook. This will work or any board really. $10.99 Landscape Clipboard sold on Amazon
A writer from Archinect and a former colleague from Woodbury University, Sean Joyner, interviews the story of SeeTheLines and how Alan Ramiro Manning came to discover his passion for sketching.
After weeks of trial and error searching for the most cost effective AND aesthetically pleasing matboard, the final result arrived to black/cream core and black/black core mattes from matboardplus.com
5x7 Matte 4x6 Artwork
8x10 Matte 5x7 Artwork
Why a Black Matte?
My first bulk buy was a bright white matboard. That was a big fat NO. Maybe the typical buyer won’t notice the difference in shades of white. BUT to me, the stark contrast of whites made me cringe.
So, black mattes was a smart direction to go for a bulk order. The shades of white no longer battle each-other.
Limited Edition Prints
For the LE prints I am going with a black/black core. This is clean, no hassle, and by default focuses the eye to the piece while popping the ink from the drawing.
I ordered several samples of shades of white to match to my paper types. Thankfully matboardplus.com provides a shade that is not so bad. So in the end, in my next bulk order, I will chose the right white, providing two options.
Thesis has begun! After a semester of research honing in on an odd pairing to examine further, the thesis will focus on the celebrity and the paparazzi.
Thesis advisers: Peter Culley and Micah Rutenberg
Woodbury University
The Glamour Machine A Sublimation of Celebrity Image Valuation
LA’s relentless network of billboards conditions subconscious modes of valuation within the urban environment. How can this strata of detached floating spaces, visually authoritative yet physically inaccessible, be transformed into a high value place of habitable exposure?
The Chateau Marmont, whose cultural significance is measured in high profile indulgency and tragedy, straddles a unique arrangement of billboards. Some meet the ground, others tower, and one hovers above the villas of the Chateau itself. This cluster of billboards has the potential for an architecture of permeation; while the image is surveyed, advertised, and disseminated.
The Glamour Machine uses the site’s artificial elevation to both expose and hide the ‘untouchable’ A-list celebrity, providing programs that reveal the persona but privatize the person. The strategic harnessing of image valuation results in an architectural sublimation. The visual encounter conditions a way of seeing by rechanneling our desire into an enhanced association with prestige.
Milestone 1
Intervening the existing
Form Finding
An abstract suggestion of form and space. Ambiguity allows for finding moments to investigate further.
An Urban Sketch Art Experiment on the streets of Barcelona
In late April 2014 I set out for a “street art experiment”.
The idea was to do what I do normally… urban sketch anywhere and everywhere I desire,
but while showcasing printed post card size sketches attached to the inside of my messenger bag.
Sure, why not?
Add a 3 euro sign on there as well, let’s see what happens.
After skating about El Barrio Gotico of Barcelona, this spot “felt” right. The sounds, the smells, the pedestrian clamor, and of course the perspective I was about to spend a few hours admiring. After about four plus hours of laying out the lines in pencil…
…yes, 4 HOURS just for the PENCIL portion?
Why so long you wonder?
I was interrupted by many, many, passer-bys that asked about my works, myself, and many people became fully invested into what I was doing for quite a while. So, YES, the experiment was a success.
I made enough euro to eat for the next two weeks.
That was the beginning of a very fruitful and prosperous months that followed.
