I haven’t done any painting in a while, and frankly, I missed it a little.  So a couple weeks ago, when I visited NYC with Natalie, I saw a painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that I just fell in love with.

The painting looked like something along the lines of what you see here.  The artist made a repetitive design of lines that formed an imaginary object boundary where the lines change direction.  The effect is that you see a diamond, when there really is none.

Another thing I found neat was that the artist made no real attempt at making lines that were particularly straight or even parallel.  The overall design of the painting sort-of just comes out as an emergent property.

The painting I did behaves similarly, but is quite different in its own right.  I wish I knew the name of the artist who did the original, but I can’t seem to remember.  If anyone recognizes the style, please let me know.

I have plans for embarking on a second painting in the same style, with a much more complex subject matter.  Get ready!

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Whatever  it means to you: everything goes in circles.

Well I finally made it to the point where I’m considering learning how to paint, instead of just painting.  So I went online, and took the advice of some e-art-classes and decided to begin practicing painting spheres.

I painted the spheres in order, from right-to-left, top-to-bottom, so you can see my development (for better or worse) as time went on.  For the record, however, I spent approximately 30 minutes on the first circle and just 5 on the last, so there was definitely some improvement in my ability to paint spheres quickly.

My biggest concern was with the shadows.  In general, I imagined light shining a different direction for many of the spheres, so they aren’t all consistent, but this was intentional.  On the other hand, even if you look at each sphere individually, the shadows look strange.  Ah well.

I think it’s a good job for my third solo painting.

See it BIG!