I am convinced that I am on the right path to finding some design patterns to tell my story. I have been studying some of Kandinsky’s compositions and marvel at some of the small patterns he smatters across the canvas: a grid here, an eyeball there. I am sure I can make something visible about […]
This is the third in my series of abstract sketches using checked patterns within triangular shapes. In this version, the vertices of each triangle are more acute than the previous sketches (Seeking Inspiration and Abstract with Grids and Circles). The visual planes set up by the triangles are subdivided into grids of diamond shapes instead […]
Two of the artists I most admire (Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky) painted according to their philosophies. Kandinsky had a theory about how colors are related to shapes. I don’t recall the the associations in his theory, but perhaps the color red might be associated with a circle, blue with a square and yellow with a triangle. He […]
I was thumbing through a book of Paul Klee’s work and came across Little Tree Amid Shrubbery. At first it just looked like patches of color. When I looked at this piece from a distance, the bushes in the foreground came into clear focus. They were three dimensional. I still didn’t get the sky though. […]
the calendar to April, even though the month is half over. My calendar displays a Paul Klee painting for every month. My composition today was based on the Klee painting for April (a detail of Necropolis). I sat on the porch looking out at the back yard. I sketched caricatures of the potted plants and the trees […]
Usually, when I’m finished with a watercolor, it reminds me of something. Today, I can’t think of a thing to name the composition below. Maybe that’s a good thing. At least I didn’t take my pencil of a pre-determined walk. (Note: Paul Klee, Bauhaus Master used the phrase, “take a pencil point for a walk”, […]
My sketch below was transcribed from a pencil sketch. I mention this by way of explanation of the hesitation mark (or gap) one can see in the ink tracing. I suppose I don’t trust myself with indelible ink and no guide. The principle I try to emulate (at least in my pencil line drawings) was formulated […]
I love the work of Joan Miró. I would also love to emulate his work but, I have not yet come across any writings that detail his methods. Paul Klee left several volumes of writings summarizing his teachings at the famous Bauhaus. I don’t think it likely that Miró wrote anything like that, so I will […]
I continue in my attempt to emulate Joan Miró‘s style of painting. However, the more I do so, the more futile and empty the process seems. Miró developed his art at the beginning of his life, which lasted 90 years; he was surrounded by the likes of Picasso, Matisse and other artists of the early […]
I have been marveling at Joan Miró‘s constellation series. One in particular really strikes my fancy: The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers. There are SO many icons, outlines and other characters! The title of Miró’s work cited above is an enticement to look for the narrative in the artwork itself. This is the style […]
