Abstraction and Paradox
While reading about Matisse and his writings, I discovered a tad more about his own personal “philosophy” or refusal to …
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The Contemplative Artist
Matisse’s writings revealed a mystical sensibility and contemplative quality to his creative work process. I immediately identified with his meditations. As I have shared …
Reflections on Color and Form I
As a continuation to the ongoing study of the elements of composition, (and following my prior post on Bachelard’s unique reflection on …
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 …
Framework for Artworks – Panel Grouping Project
“The success of humanity’s evolution will not be determined by ‘survival of the fittest’ but by our own capacity to …
New Paintings – “Wheel within a Wheel 101 and 102”
I begin these blog postings for 2014 at a threshold moment for “Wheel within a Wheel” as a series of …
Third Update: 8 Panel project
The paintings that I had been working on in tandem — one on paper (left) and one on a panel …
Wheel within a Wheel Collection — Group #4
The following ten paintings in the “Wheel within a Wheel” series had as their basis a study of design from …
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