Sunday November 18, 2012 Geoform.net

Geoform is an online scholarly resource and curatorial project whose focus is the use of geometric form and structure in contemporary abstract art being made by artists from around the world.

Geoform explores, documents and celebrates the rich diversity of style and aesthetic intent that characterizes this broad vein of contemporary non-objective abstraction. Such diversity attests to the profound resonance that geometric form and structure have had for people across time and place.

Geoform is edited by Julie Karabenick (karabenick-art.net). It has been online since May, 2005.

I want to thank Julie for including my work on the Groform site.  I hope you will go and see, it is a beautiful site!

Monday November 12, 2012

Fragments III #130  30"x30"  gouache on w/c paper

Fragments III #131  30"x30"  gouache on w/c paper

In Fragments III #130 I am working with a graduation of green and of red to orange.  I am reminded of many mountains, like the Sandia de Christo of New Mexico, washed in the color of the sunset, as only in New Mexico, land of enchantment.  And in Fragments III #131, the composition is interesting to me.  There are color changes and value changes through out the work.  There appears to be changes in the patterns, from small to large, because of these changes.  It is funny when we work, we may have one thing in mind, and something else happens, just like life.

I am again working at the editing of the series of my work.  I think the whole will be stronger because of the editing.  But the question of what to keep and what to let go?  Sometimes it is difficult, I see a work and I remember, what was overcome to complete the work, it may not be the strongest, and yet it is "dear."  I try to be merciless in my decisions, though it breaks my heart to let "my children go, to know they will not go on, will not live."  It seems each piece was "a trial by fire."

November 4, 2012 Sunday

Fragments III #127  30"x30"  gouache on w/c paper

Fragments III #128  30"x30"  gouache on w/c paper

Fragments III #129  30"x30"  gouache on w/c paper

October 27, 2012 Fragments

Fragments III #124  30"x30"  gouache on w/c paper

This piece is my first attempt to work with the circle.  If you look carefully the circles at the top are a dark yellow and as they move to the bottom they get lighter.  The circles from the bottom are a dark blue-green and move to the top as a light blue-green.  They are separated by diamonds which begin on the right hand side as red-purple and as they move to the left they become a light purple.

The diamonds on the left side are a bright red and as they move to the right they become a bright red-orange.

For me each piece is a" what if?"

Friday October 19, 2012 Fragments III

Fragments III #124  22"x22"  gouache on w/'c paper

Fragments III #125  30"x30"  gouache on w/c paper

In the Fragments #124  the scale of the grid is one half inch.  I wanted to try using grey mixed with black and white, and a grey mixed with red, blue and green.  I have hoped the viewer would be able to see a difference, but I don't think it works as I had hoped.  I think the difference is too subtle.  The area I call the "tipping point" just looks blurred.  I will try again.  My goal is that one grey will be warm and the other will be cool. 

 In the second work, Fragments III #125, the size is 30"x30", and the scale of the grid is one inch.  So far I think this is the most successful so far.  I mixed a dark blue, with purple and the red is a cool red, with yellow added.  As you look at the work, from the top,When get to the "tipping point" it is most beautiful as the blue becomes the darker, and the red becomes yellow.  I think one reason this works is because, when you look at the work, you are aware something is happening.