An interesting experiment in color and the interplay of layers of different size spirals. From a distance, the image of my wife is pretty low-key and neutral. Up close, there’s a pretty spectacular spectrum of brilliance. Red, yellow, blue, black, white painted on paper over a gray acrylic ground. I’m pretty attracted to all aspects […]

Self portrait – another more or less failed effort to attain a naturalistic color. Still playing with the scale and interplay of the spiral layers.

Painted in black and white acrylics over a gray acrylic ground, I was experimenting here with varying the scale of the spirals.

An effort to produce naturalistic color in this self portrait painted in red, yellow, blue, black, and white square spirals over a black ground. I particularly like this one!

After the holiday, I made this second effort to portray my friend, Miguel Rivera, in square spirals, emphasizing this surprising optical illusion border of diamonds and diagonals even though every mark in the painting is either vertical or horizontal.

A portrait of my wife, acrylic painting on paper

My first efforts to make medium scale paintings on paper using acrylic paint pens in a special jig I designed and built for the purpose. The paint pens I chose are made by Molotow and have a fibrous tip that is charged and recharged by pushing the tip into the body of the pen and […]