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1997
12" x 12"
acrylic on drafting vellum
This series of acrylic paintings was done as part of an architecture design project when I was in college. The project involved a cross-cultural design project -- I believe I was designing a center for the study of Japanese calligraphy to be built on some island in Finland. Yeah, random, I know. Anyway, to show where I was headed with my design and to demonstrate the melding of the two cultures, I did these acrylic paintings as part of my presentation. Frankly, I don't remember now exactly how I arrived at all of this, but I remember experimenting with sketching the layout of the building with the same kind of brush and ink used to do Japanese calligraphy, and that the flow of the building had a lot to do with both the geometric tendencies in Finnish architecture and the strokes used in Japanese writing.
Ultimately, I used my sketches as a blueprint and painted a series of seven images on the best paper I had at the time -- drafting vellum.
The originals have been sold.
12" x 12"
acrylic on drafting vellum
This series of acrylic paintings was done as part of an architecture design project when I was in college. The project involved a cross-cultural design project -- I believe I was designing a center for the study of Japanese calligraphy to be built on some island in Finland. Yeah, random, I know. Anyway, to show where I was headed with my design and to demonstrate the melding of the two cultures, I did these acrylic paintings as part of my presentation. Frankly, I don't remember now exactly how I arrived at all of this, but I remember experimenting with sketching the layout of the building with the same kind of brush and ink used to do Japanese calligraphy, and that the flow of the building had a lot to do with both the geometric tendencies in Finnish architecture and the strokes used in Japanese writing.
Ultimately, I used my sketches as a blueprint and painted a series of seven images on the best paper I had at the time -- drafting vellum.
The originals have been sold.
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Interesting... sorry, that's about as far as my advanced critique goes. But keep up the good work, lovely stroke definition, good use of colours, especially the primary colours juxtaposed with the black/white! 