I failed to mention that this piece

will be on display at the Eccles Community Art Center July 2nd through August 28th at the 36th Annual Statewide Competition.

News Break

News Break

Starting Monday my series Bees will be on display. The series includes this, this & this piece.

One of the really cool things about geometry is how so many shapes can spiral down inside themselves like this.

Adam and Eve
Watercolor
2009
18X18in
Series: Rose Windows

Research and Reading

Right now I'm reading some art related books to educate myself on varrious things to make myself a better artist and to be able to incorperate ideas or concepts into my work.
I'm reading The Artist's Guide by Jackie Battenfield and I would recommend it to anyone starting out in the arts, it's both enjoyable to read and highly instructive.
I'm also reading Sacred Geometry by Robert Lawlor, I am very interested in sacred geometry and I'm still working to get a better understanding of it and to be able to utilize it more in my work.
Point and Line to Plane by Wassily Kandinsky, this was recommended to me by one of my professors and it's very interesting but quite frankly I'm having a a hard time following it.
Last but not least is Lenoardo da Vinci's Notebooks, it's been very interesting reading this and seeing more of Leonardo's perspective on the world. The subjects covered vary from studies of water to parables to praportions.

This piece was inspired in part by this essay by Hugh Nibley and the thought that perhaps the sexes were in the best equality in more rural times when both the husband and the wife worked at home both in the house and in the fields and with more evenly distributed time with children.

United
Watercolor and pen and ink
9X9in.
2009
Series: Rose Windows

Openings
graphite
2010
Series: Choices