I wanted to make a colorful background and populate it with linear icons, a vision of something between Wassily Kandinsky and Joan Miró: line drawings standing out against an alien landscape.
I chose lemon yellow as my key color with the idea of adding reddish earth tones and a dash of green here and there.
The only problem was, I didn’t have a very good idea of what my line drawings would be. My iconology is underdeveloped. Besides, I didn’t want the composition to look like the Rosetta Stone anyway.
I came up with a simple design that I like very much.
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yantra
Thanks (b)! I never thought of this image as an aid to meditation. Could work, though.
yes, cause it enhances inner space . good work !
love that eye (K)
Thanks, K. I didn’t originally craft this as a face. I worked on it in landscape format and thought that it looked better as a portrait. I guess faces just naturally appear in my art. Go figure.
j
It’s all mysterious!
The simple is good. I always try to start simple and sometimes when that fails I make it more complex and when sometimes that fails I turn to chaos and when that sometimes fails it becomes gibberish and wonderful learning experience.
Nice work.
I know what you mean, Joe. It is hard to stop sometimes. I took another look at some of Miro’s work. Some of his paintings are just chock full of icons. He must have had a method of placing them in his composition.
Thanks for the comment.
Jack