Color: Natural Dyes and Pigments
Recently, I began to look at David Lee’s book Nature’s Palette. It has piked my curiosity about natural dyes and pigments. Among …
Category Archives: Wheel within a Wheel Series
Dynamic Symmetry
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue …
Color Attributes I – Red
In this post, I will explore the subject of color based on two of its attributes – its quantity and …
Perception and Seeing Creatively
The whole life lies in the verb seeing. (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin) I plan to delve into the subject I …
Process of Making an Artwork
I begin an analysis of Wheel within a Wheel 109 using – The Art of Color – Johannes Itten‘s color theory …
Analysis of an Artwork
In this blog post I will use Johannes Itten’s method from his curriculum at the Bauhaus –The Theory and Practice of Forms – to analyze Wheel within a Wheel 109 – one of my most recent artworks. A circumference divides two …
Meditative Practice
A practice of twenty minutes of quiet meditation has slowly been woven into the activities of my daily life. In this post, …
Meditations on Negative and Positive Space
Black ink (paint in my case) serves as the connecting element between my own Wheel within a Wheel 105 “hiccup” experience (described …
Thoughts on the Elements of Composition
While painting Wheel within a Wheel 104 & 105 several artists – Elizabeth Brandt, Kathleen Waterloo and Sheila Wolk – …
Framework for Panel Project #2
I just discovered some interesting commonalities between my own work process and M.C. Escher’s. Amongst the echoes and resonances that …
