Circle Based Shapes

Took a few minutes today to play around with some shapes. I have an idea of what I want these shapes to become, but I'm not quite ready to share what that is yet. But just you wait!

Suds

Got some inspiration while I was washing my hands....

Breaking it Down

This started out as a diagram of the last painting I did, then I started adding some connective lines about the circles.

The really bizarre thing is how the placement of the circles happened in the painting... I had intended for it to be spaced differently but something else happened. And now here I am trying to break down my accident to get to the bottom of it.

Pressing on...

Circles In Acrylic 2

Another in the continued series. This one is 8x10. I had done a wash on the canvas in a light orange color, and had started working on the background, fully intending to work in blues for the circles, but the orange tones grew on me and ended up working little bit better for this one.

Coming outward, each circle is twice the diameter of the previous and was placed on the tangent sides of the first and third previous circles. Following that rule, I found that the centers of any adjacent pair of circles aligns with the center of the second consecutive circle following the larger circle of the pair.

I think.

NoHo Station Floor

This is a quick photo from my iPhone (not the greatest shot, I realize)of the Red Line train station in North Hollywood. I was standing there waiting for the train to show up, looked down and saw this visage... I thought it was a slight blending of a couple different ideas from my recent pieces with just a hint of collage.

Spiral Escalations

I was pretty tired tonight and I contemplated scanning something old to throw it up here, but that's kind of defeating the point, so I whipped these up. They're not particularly fantastic or detailed but the initial Idea is there, and can be hashed out further later, should I desire to do so.

Circles in Acrylic 1

Hey, I finished my painting early! This is my first crack at one of my circle sketches in painting form, and is 4"x5". I'm not sure if acrylic is the right medium for these pieces, but I am willing to explore it further.

The intention of these pieces is to make images made entirely out of circles, and the forms would take on these organic shapes. I don't think this is quite successful yet at getting to that idea, but it was a good first run, and took on some unexpected celestial qualities of it's own. I also realized that color pallettes of these are going to have to be chosen more carefully.

Study For Small Painting

Just a simple sketch for today. It's a quick study for a painting that I also started tonight. The painting is fairly small (much like the sketch!), but I should be finished with it in a couple days. So far so good.

Letterbox Collage Studies

Here are a few collage studies in a new "letterbox" format that I'd eventually like to try out. The techniques are the same, but some of the shapes feel fresh to me.

Forms of Circles

Some further exploration of the various shapes made out of circles, including the golden section and related forms. The second sheet (ripped from the sketchbook!) were attempts at making more structural forms in this same manner.

Circles Upon Circles

A new theme in my sketches, or so it would seem. The circles are forming the Shape that i came up with a couple weeks ago... It all continues to develop and I think it would make an interesting painting, whenever I get back into painting mode.

Hypothetical Bridges

Whipped these up on the train today. I had this idea for a spiral/ribbon bridge... then it turned into a helix bridge... then it turned into a sectional bridge based on undulating circular tunnels... then I got to my station and had to put the pen down. They aren't fully hashed out, but just some initial thoughts that could potentially be worked out later... or on my next train ride!