“The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole.” — Erich Gamma The previous tutorial covered a general overview of the Negative Positive Composition and eight variations. This art design tutorial describes the Movement Device plus all the variations. Movement Composition In two-dimensional art, Continue Reading
Art & Communication: Bridging the Language Gap
“If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.” – Edward Hopper, American Artist, 1882-1967. I felt like I didn’t fit in for most of my life. I strived to describe my life’s path to fit into the world of “normal.” Most people seemed to move in straight lines, seek quick answers, and value logic over intuition. My mind doesn’t work that Continue Reading
When the Brain Becomes One: My Journey into a Whole-Brain Experience
I think the most significant creative activities of our or any other human culture - legal and ethical systems, art and music, science and technology - were made possible only through the collaborative work of the left and right cerebral hemispheres…we might say that human culture is the function of corpus callosum.- Carl Sagan There are moments when Continue Reading
Negative Positive Composition Variations in Design
The biggest mistake artists make is to concentrate only on the positive space, the objects which define the painting. Negative space gives the connection between objects — if the negative space is greater than the positive then objects are distant to each other. If spaces are enclosed, they cleanly define objects, if they are open, they allow a flow from one Continue Reading