Untitled September 15, 2024 Abstract

 This is a simple design which included some color following a  fairly
 focused use of  techenical  pen  (only)  as  found  in  the  previous
 February  10, 2024 abstract.  I was at first thinking I might do more
 of these 8" X 8" drawings as they were simple to do and color was fun
 to play with  in  the  random  mandala-like  shapes  I'd come up with
 without any specific design plan(s).  But, the "life" of an  artist's
 "ideas"  for  future works I now understand is fairly unpredicatble. 
 At least for me it  is!   So,  this  piece  I now see as a "transition
 piece" of sorts.

 At this writing --  on  October  29,  2024,  I  will
 mention  I've  begun  a  new and large work -- 32" x 32" -- which again
 focuses on The Golden Ratio.  UNLIKE Metatron's Cube however, it will be
 larger and highly tinted.  The tinting willl be similar to that found
 in the Release II painting, but it will also include a  super-imposed
 array  of  INTEGRATING  pathway  patterns leading to one of 14 larger
 (than Metatron's Cube II's)  circles.   The tinting in this free-hand
 drawing OVER the geometric array will be opposite in its intensity to
 all adjacent tinting under the free-hand design.  As in  Release  II,
 the  measuring  for  all  lines  in  the geometric patterns HAD to be
 perfect!  To accomplish this, the entire illustration board had to be
 gridded in a tilted series  of  parallel  lines.  One series of lines
 being tilted 30 degrees with respect to the  horizontal.   The  other
 series had to be parallel  and  drawn  90 degrees to that 30 degree
 series.  The "guide" for both the 14 circles  and  the  super-imposed
 free-hand   array   is   mentioned   here   only  as  a  very  briefe
 "introduction" to  my  next  gouache  painting,  It  will  bew called
 "Integrations  I."  It's  title  (and  the  design)  were  chosen  in
 response to two  previous  paintings  with similar themes:  "Structure
 and Chaos I" and "Structure and Chaos II."