Piece of the Week

I made this book yesterday and though it didn't turn out quite like I was hoping, I'm still excited about how it turned out. I loved the illustration on this flier and I've been waiting for a chance to use it.

100 Dresses coptic

flier and book cloth etc.

3x3in

2012

Genesis

Another piece based on Genesis 1:12.

Watercolor
9x9in
2012
Series: Genesis

Genesis

Posting is not going as usual this week, sorry about that. I've got a deadline coming up for a show application (wish me luck there) and it's not sent off yet, and yesterday was my normal blogging day but the days events seriously deviated from my plan. Here's the next piece in the Genesis series. This piece was another one of the first pieces I made for this series, the first ten or so. It comes from Genesis 1:12.

Watercolor
9x9in
2012
Series: Genesis
Photo by Hawkinson Photography

Genesis

This piece is on the same lines of the last two Genesis pieces, although this piece was made before the other two I believe. This has a companion piece that will be shown in a few weeks.

Watercolor
9x9in
2012
Series: Genesis
Photo by Hawkinson Photography

Sacred Geometry: A Primer

This week, the Wedjat eye, or the eye of Horus.

To start you need a square, but make it a bigger square than you might usually use and find the vertical and horizontal axis.

On the left double square draw the diagonals.

Set your compass with the point on the bottom left corner of the square and the drawing point on the half way point. Arc down until you meet one of the horizontal lines.

Set your compass point on the bottom right corner of the double square. Set the drawing point to where the last arc stopped and arc to the edge of the double square.

Repeat on the top side of the square: set the point on the top left corner of the square, drawing point on the half line and then arc to meet the horizontal line.

 Set your point to the top left corner of the double square and set the drawing point to where the last arc left off. Arc to the edge of the double square.

 To draw the pupil of the wedjat eye, set your compass point at the center of the square and set the drawing point to the where the lines and arcs intersect and make a circle.

Next set the compass point on the bottom point of the pupil, set the drawing point at the top of the pupil and arc down to the horizontal line.

Repeat in reverse.

Next the eyebrow. It's drawn like the top line of the eye, but closer to the top (one probably should do it more scientifically than picking an distance that looks good, unfortunately I don't know any other way.)

Next is the little curly thing under the eye. I realized after doing it that it was facing the wrong way. It will still show you how to do it, you'll just need to flip it around. Actually, you could just draw the curly thing free form, this is just one way to do it.
Set your compass with the point in the center of the pupil and the drawing point to the right most point of the eye. Use this measure to make a square below the eye.

Genesis

This piece is really simple but I like how it turned out. It's based on the same things as this piece.

Earth
Watercolor
9x9in
2012
Series:Genesis

Blast from the past

This piece is the last of the series of geometric colored pencil pieces. Not a good picture and there's a lot that could be better about it but I do like the design and the colors.

colored pencil

9x9in

Sacred Geometry: A Primer

Today, the last orthogon, the bipenton. I left it until last because it was very complicated looking, and it did take more steps than I think any of the others took but it wasn't as bad as I thought.

First, start with your square. I find it easier to extend the vertical lines of the square when I draw it in anticipation of the finished orthogon.

Find the horizontal halfway point of the square.

Draw a diagonal line from the bottom left corner to the right halfway point.

Set your compass point on the right halfway point and your drawing point on the bottom right corner of the square. Arc up to meet the diagonal line.

Set your compass point on the bottom left corner of the square and the drawing point to where the arc meets the diagonal line and arc up.

With your compass at the same setting, put the drawing point on the bottom right corner of the square and arc up to meet the side of the square.

Draw a diagonal line from the bottom left corner and passing through the point where the two arcs meet.

Set your compass point on the right point of the new diagonal and the drawing point to the bottom right corner of the square and arc up.

Top off the bipenton.

"Beauty will save the world" -Dostoyevsky

Template

watercolor and pastel pencil

9x9in

2010

Series: Choices

In part one of this topic, I talked a lot about Wulf, but Wulf has played a major part in my being an artist and my doing what I do now.
I was able to go to Italy in 2011. I loved it, I got to see famous and beautiful art that I'd studied and loved. I got to see works of masters like da Vinci and Durer. I also got to see the remains of cultures and civilizations that valued beauty far more than we seem to do these days. Buildings were made so that they still stand centuries later, buildings that were made to be beautiful, not just to be a building.
I hope to bring beauty to the world with my art, for the world to perhaps be a little better for my art being in it. I probably haven't fully managed that yet but I have goals to work towards.

Genesis

This piece is about dry land being separated from the water/ocean/seas. The scriptural references come from Genesis 1:10, and Abraham 4: 9-10. Again, I used the red and squares because they're symbols of earth.

Dry Land
Watercolor
9x9in
2012
Series: Genesis
Photo by Hawkinson Photography

Blast from the past

I like this design a lot, also the colors. I really like the circles and squares and the way they interact together. I probably will do more versions of this again in the future. That's something that I love about geometric designs, they're incredibly versatile.
 Also can we take a moment to acknowledge just how far I've come in photographing my work?

colored pencil

9x9in

2007/8?

Piece of the Week

I've been trying to keep the piece of the week more recent pieces but today's piece of the week is from a few years ago, but I only recently was able to take a decent picture of it.

Joachim and Boaz
watercolor and pen and ink
9x9in
2010
Series: Choices

This piece is called Joachim and Boaz, the names of two columns/pillars that I believe were in/at Solomon's temple. I believe that pillars/columns as the above, can be symbolic for a transition, moving from one thing/place/etc. to another.
Update, so after I wrote this post, I went to Wulf's exhibit at the Springville Muesum of Art I noticed this painting of a similar title.

This is what the little card by it had to say about Joachim and Boaz.

Genesis

This piece is based on the same scriptures as last week's piece. This piece though I took in a different direction. I had seen a picture or painting of space and those sort of glowing colorful light clouds? (sorry I have no idea what they're called) and I was reminded how beautiful space and the heavens can be. I framed the scene in an eight pointed star because I've learned that eight is sort of a symbol or representation for the transition to heaven. If you have a square representing earth and a circle representing heaven, an octagon is sort of a bridge between the two, like in domed buildings, between the square base and a round dome, there's often octagon's to make it a smoother transition.

Firmament Called Heaven II
watercolor
9x9in
2012
Series: Genesis

Sacred Geometry: A Primer

So as I've said, we're running low on orthogons, the ones left are the ones that have the most complicated diagrams, the bipenton and the trion. We'll do the trion today. I'm not sure I've ever drawn or used the trion but for anyone who wants or needs to know how to draw it, now we'll all know.

Start with the square and I find it helpful to extend the vertical lines past the square when I draw them.

Set your compass with the point in the top left corner and to the width of the square, arc through the square.

Set your compass with the point in the bottom left corner and repeat.

Draw a line from the bottom left corner and going through the point where the two arcs intersect. (In the diagram I was going off this was shown as a solid line, I used a dotted, if you're drawing the trion for the trion, I would just mark the point where the line crosses the other side of the square.)

Set your compass with the point in the bottom left corner of the square and the drawing point where the line and the square meet up, arc up to meet the vertical line extended from the square.

The diagram had a solid line draw on between the parts of the arc, I don't think that's a necessary step for drawing the trion, perhaps just showing some of the anatomy of the trion? From here just finish it off with the line where the arc and extended line meet.

The Trion.

Genesis

This piece is the next piece of the Genesis series. It's based on Moses 2:8 and Abraham 4:8. The piece is called Firmament Called Heaven, and I tried to use symbolism to visualize heaven. The pillars represent a transition. The orthagon square is in the middle, it contains all 12 of the orthagons, I would once again remind myself and other artists that it perhaps would be good to leave yourself notes on what deep and creative ideas you have behind your pieces, so that you will remember them later on. I guess what I was going for with all of the symbols is perhaps a sense of the eternal, with the orthagons, the alpha and omega and the color purple which it the color of royalty. I'm very sorry that I can't remember more of the thoughts behind this piece.

Firmament Called Heaven
Watercolor
9x9in
2012
Series: Genesis

Blast from the Past

This was a masterpiece from college, one of my last two years in school. I picked up the leaf on my way home from school one day and the acorn on another day. I like the detail I was able to get and the composition.

untitled

watercolor

9x9in (just a guess)

2007-8?

Sacred Geometry: A Primer

This week, the penton and I must first state that I'm pretty sure I figured this out but the diagram I went off was complicated and the instructions are in German, which I don't speak or read that well. If anyone can see that I've made a mistake, please let me know.

Rather than starting with the square we start with the double square.

Draw a diagonal from the bottom left to the top right.

Set your compass to the width of the bottom of the square, point on the left, lead on the right. Arc up to meet the diagonal line.

Set your compass again, this time point on the upper right corner of the double square and the lead where the arc and diagonal line meet. Arc up past the outside of the double square.

Apparently I failed to get a picture of this step but set your compass again, point on bottom right corner and lead on top right and arc to meet the arc that extends beyond the double square.
Then draw a line between where the two arcs intersect and the bottom right corner.

Where the double square and the diagonal line meet is the top of the penton.

Top it off and there is a penton.