Wednesday, December 23, 2009

December09

To daughter Eva on her birthday

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Monday, August 24, 2009

Something Special for Ariel!

I am calling this LABYRINTH and will be adapting it gradually........

Friday, August 21, 2009

27GREYS

These greys are altered from the usual triplets of the equal #'s to a triplet that reflects the unequal luminosities of R,G and B.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Friday, August 7, 2009

:: andy gilmore :: drawings ::

:: andy gilmore :: drawings ::

ARENA OF LIGHT ---intervals---

There are twelve spatial intervals horizontally and twelve vertically.
1:2,2:3,3:4,4:5,5:6,7:8,8:9,9:10,14:15,15:16,24:25,25:27,

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Monday, August 3, 2009

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

First ARENA OF LIGHT

Borduas said ----

Quote from Paul Emile Borduas
in
ABSTRACT PAINTING IN CANADA
by
Roald Nasgaard

I begin with no preconceived idea.Faced with the white sheet,my mind free of any literary ideas,I respond to my first impulse. If I feel like placing my charcoal in the middle of the page,or to one side,I do so with no questions asked,and then go on from there.Once the first line is drawn,the page has been divided and that division starts a whole series of thoughts which proceed automatically. When I use the word " thoughts" I mean painterly thoughts: thoughts having to do with movement ,
rhythm,volume and light, not literary ideas. Once the drawing has been completely worked out, the same steps are followed with colour. As with the drawing, if my first impulse is to use yellow, I do not hesitate. And the first colour determines all the others Its at the stage of colour that the problems of light and volume present themselves.

The general idea which may be derived from a painting is a consequence of the unity of conditions under which the painting is made, and those conditions are never chosen, but accepted. Once the work is finished, the general idea is of only secondary importance. The essential beauty of a work of art is made up of nothing but its song. there is nothing else for the spectator to sense. nontheless, the general idea, which has its source in intellectual discipline, may be understood by the viewer. intellectual discipline is the artist's mental labour and its rigour determines degree of purity.
.......It follows that the work of art must be accomplished in a constant state of becoming so that instinct, from which the song flows, may express itself continuously as the work is being executed. the painter's song is a vibration printed on matter by human sensibility. Through it, matter is made to live. therein lies the source of all mystery in a work of art: that inert matter can be brought to life.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

From John Updike's Rabbit Redux

"Whatever men make," (Jill) says,"what they felt when they made it is there.If it was made to make money, it will smell of money. That's why these houses are so ugly, all the corners they cut to make a profit are still in them. That's why the cathedrals are so lovely; nobles and ladies in velvet and ermine dragged the stones up the ramps. Think of a painter. He stands in front of the canvas with a colour on his brush. whatever he feels when he makes the mark - if he's tired or bored or happy and proud - will be there. The same colour but we'll feel it. Like fingerprints. Like handwriting. Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

OPAL27+


I see more ideas for "bitbirdy" to chew on embedded in this image.

"April 30 " for ERIC'S 51 st

I put this image in on April 30th and it wasn't quite right yet and took it out.
It is titled CHIMERA-------Look it up!

Friday, June 26, 2009

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Monday, June 1, 2009

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Friday, April 3, 2009

Carolyn's birthday image

This is called "Where Rivers Meet"

Monday, March 16, 2009

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Friday, January 23, 2009

Pixel "paintings"----note the quotation marks!



The title of this blog is a hint of what will be coming in the following blogs.
Words-----Words-------Words
For those viewers out there in cyberland who are curious about the images.
Goodbye for now.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Saturday, January 10, 2009

A bit-map pic to start the day.


Hi ALL

I am going to try to put in an image.

Wow! It worked....

Bye for now!

Sunday, January 4, 2009

New Year -New Challenges?


On January 9 I will be 77 years old. It is a great number -----7 x 11!---two primes!
I've put this photo in the profile.It was taken in Hamilton Ontario a couple of years ago while on a boat tour of the harbour.