Category Archives: Painting

Progressions Part Two

Posted on January 29, 2012 by david

This is the second part of my musings on connections between music and color which started here. I left off with the arithmetic progression. Now for the second of the three: Geometric. Again, this is a three-term proportion where a … Continue reading →

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Progressions

Posted on January 21, 2012 by david

My attempts to determine whether or not a rational basis exists for my intuition of a relationship between color and music led me back to Robert Lawlor’s Sacred Geometry, a book I first read about a decade ago, specifically chapter … Continue reading →

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The closed circle and the infinite spiral

Posted on January 4, 2012 by david

Working on a new body of work based on the secondary and tertiary colors in color theory (working title Seconds and Thirds), I had a spontaneous thought those colors seemed to correspond to thirds and fifths in music. I mentioned … Continue reading →

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Practice

Posted on November 9, 2011 by david

Painting is always fresh. I have painted since I was a kid and yet here I am almost 50 years later still learning about paint, and still engaged. I strive to master technique, but do not believe I will ever … Continue reading →

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The Gift

Posted on June 26, 2011 by david

I place these quotes from Lewis Hyde’s book, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World, here so that I do not lose them. I feel as though the author is speaking directly to me of my practice, … Continue reading →

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