Today was the first day of our Saturday morning series. Christine did Triangles with Art Play (a class designed for pre-school) from 9:00am to 10:00, and then I came in to do M. C. Escher, patterns and tesselations.

We re-named Mad Science to Creative Universe since we look at the universality of Art to help us understand a variety of things. This ( Read more... )

Today another drawing from a photo, attempting in a slightly abstract way, to capture the glow and the shadow of a bright midwestern morning.


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Optical illusions have always fascinated me. For Christmas, my aunt got me a magnetic quilt, the visual equivalent of magnetic poetry. Lots of colors, lots of playing, and I’ve been fiddling with the op-art properties of squares and parallelograms. The tiles are isosceles right triangles, so on an octagonal rather than hexagonal grid, but they got ( Read more... )