Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Sacred Geometry: A Primer

Today the hemiolion and/or the rule of thirds. I first heard of the rule of thirds in a high school art class. The rule is basically that a design or composition will be more dynamic or interesting if the focus is on a third rather than smack dab in the middle. The hemiolion produces thirds.

As always, starting with a square.

You then want to find the half way point on the top line of the square.

Set your compass from the left edge of the square to the half mark and arc up to the line extended from the square.


Repeat on the opposite side.

Draw the line over the top to complete.

Here are two other varriations. Also I'll try to have better pictures next time.



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