My weblog ELECTRON BLUE, which concentrated on science and mathematics, ran from 2004-2008. It is no longer being updated. My current blog, which is more art-related, is here.
Wed, 24 May, 2006
Fresh new art
I made some new art, space abstractions for a science fiction convention art show coming up this weekend. These are tiny, experimental pictures where I get to try out new ideas without painting a whole big unsellable board. There's plenty of visual math and implied physics in the images. Recently I received a query from, of all things, a Polish schoolgirl who had somehow come across my website and was looking for mathematical art for a school project. I sent her back a short reply describing how I get my ideas from basic mathematics such as conic sections, and referred her to some nice sites which feature these lines and curves which are so aesthetically pleasing. She wrote back thanking me for my help. At some point I will talk more extensively about how I put these mathematical shapes into compositions and paintings and what I am looking for when I do this. It's much simpler than doing real math or physics.
Here's the first of this set of two. It's catalog number 934A, titled PARTICLE CASCADE, 8 inches by 12 inches, acrylic on illustration board. The board came pre-coated with a blue background color.
And the second of the pair, catalog number 934B, CHAOTIC PARABOLAS, 10 inches by 7 inches; acrylic, pigment markers, and colored pencil on black color-coated illustration board.
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