Friday, February 7, 2014

Newest Painting - Illusionistic

I've posted the image of my latest painting this winter off to the column on the right. I got the idea from something I did in an introductory college course about forty-five years ago, including something I saw online with squares, then I added a lot of color, and also added some illusions of three dimensions in terms of the solid spheres as well as the more camouflaged ones more hidden within the painting.

Look for these....
There are a total of 11 spheres of different sizes in the painting if you care to find them.  Look for places where the squares seem to bulge. There are also at least five levels of depth, e.g. a large checkered sphere in the middle over the solid orange one which lies over the largest checkered sphere which lies over two other solid spheres. They in turn lie over the rest of the checkered board. There could be more.


Here's the time-lapse of the project...to an almost complete state...

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

New Book Status Report

50,000 words...yup, that's the status report. 50,000 words. Still a lot of work to do. I'm still working on a new painting with a built-in 3D illusion. So, I've split my time between the two.