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

Blast from the past

I think this piece is from when I first learned how to draw a star with geometry/compass and straight edge. I like stars but they're hard to draw. In first grade I couldn't draw a star very well, I hadn't learned the trick for drawing them and so a friend who was Jewish taught me how to draw a six sided star or Star of David, it was easier, just two triangles overlapping and going the opposite direction. Humorously I think I probably made a Christmas tree with a Star of David on top. Anyway eventually  I did learn the trick for drawing stars, but I loved being able to draw a perfect, or near perfect star. I also loved the idea that I could draw another star inside that star. This piece resulted I guess. Also blue and yellow are some of my favorite colors so I chose them for this piece. I love prismacolor's Copehagen Blue, which is what this color is, my copenhagen blue is probably the shortest of all my colored pencils.

colored pencil

9x9in

2007/8?

Piece of the Week

A lot of Hex pieces in the works lately. This was a crucial key in the unlocking of a pattern.

watercolor

6x6in

2012

Series: Hex

Sacred Geometry: A Primer

Alright, there's a lot in today's post. I'm running out of orthogons (there are only 12 after all) but the good news is that there's a lot more to sacred geometry than just the orthogons. Today is sort of a continuations of last weeks post, how to draw a hexagon or a six-sided star and the how-to on those opens up a whole world of possibilities.
Anyway, start with a straight line, I went horizontal but you could also go with a vertical line.

Draw a circle and sort of center it on your line.

Draw a circle with the point of your compass on one of the points where the original circle and the line cross. This is the same step to create a vesica piscis. P.s. don't change your compass setting.

 Draw another circle at the point where the two circles intersect.

Continue until you have six circles around the original circle.

Draw connecting lines between each intersection of the original circle.

The hexagon.You can also draw the star from this point but I did not.

If you want to simplify things, you can get the same results without drawing all the extra circles. Just draw the points where the circles intersect.

When you've done that you can make a hexagon or proceed as follows for a star.

Connect two points leaving another point in between them.

So there you go, now go and experiment and find out what you can do with all this.

Piece of the Week

I'm not sure that this is the pattern that I started out to create but I like how it turned out, especially the overlapping yellow lines that make stars.

watercolor

9x9in

2012

Series: Hex

Genesis

This piece is based off of Genesis 1:5, Moses 2:5, and Abraham 4:5, the moon through the night over a world without any land yet. The constellation is Orion. I believe what I was thinking about with the background pattern was heaven and earth, with the blue and read and circle/squares.

Night
Watercolor
9x9in
2012
Series: Genesis
Photo by Hawkinson Photography

Sacred Geometry: A Primer

Since it's the 4th of July/Independence Day, this week: how to draw a five pointed star. Start with a line and a circle on that line.

Then make a vesica piscis.

Draw a straight line between the points of the vesica piscis.

Find the vertical half line of the original circle.

 Draw the vertical line.

Set your compass for the distance between the intersection of lines in the vesica piscis and the top point of the circle.

Arc down from the top of the circle to the horizontal line.

Set your compass from the top point of the circle to the new point and arc from one side of the circle to the other.

With your compass at the same setting, arc down from the point on the right side of the circle.

Continue from point to point until there are five points.

 Then connect all the points to form a pentagon. Come to think of it you could just make a star just then and there but that's not what I did.

When you have the pentagon you can connect the lines like this (ps, this is not a great example of a pentagon).

and continue on to form the star.

 The star has an inner pentagon and you can continue the stars as far as you can before they get to small.

Ta-da