You may be wondering why I have been posting so infrequently to the Electron recently. This lack of blogification is due to increased time allotted to painting and drawing. Even doing an only part time day job, I just don't have enough time in a day to do all the tasks I need to do. So there has been less action here while I get things done. But when I finally have something important done, it goes here.

I just finished another geometric abstraction painting. These pictures, for some reason I don't quite understand, are popular, not only among my friends but among gallery-goers and convention viewers. People whom I would expect to be much more conservative in their taste appreciate these abstractions. It's fascinating to me. Paintings like these, which have no human images and little or no sentiment or emotion, would have been avant-garde 100 years ago. Now they are accepted in non-avant-garde situations. I wonder if this is a sign of progress, or just change. Art followers get used to things. This is good for me, because I am not an avant-garde artist and have no desire to shock or disturb people in the name of art. That's bad for business.

The name of this painting is "30-60-90" which refers to the angles in a trigonometrically significant triangle. It's depicted in bright orange here. I was reviewing trigonometry at the time I designed it. For trigonometry fans, you remember that the ratio of the three sides of this triangle are: shortest side = 1, next longest side = square root of 3 (about 1.732) and the hypotenuse = 2. This has been true as long as our universe has existed.

Acrylic on thick orange paper, 10" x 8".

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