Hi Bright Eyes,

I really wish I could see this larger.  Is it possible to alter your jpeg to make it bigger?  It looks really good.

jdpainter

Ellen,

This is simply beautiful....good luck!

Jdpainter

Denise,

Really nice job!  Very cleaver, I wouldn't have thought to use this idea but it really works.  I like the immediacy of the work.

jdpainter

This is my almost last minute “Spiral Gyre in Blue”.

15x22

Watercolor over metallic fluid acrylic wash on Arches 140 Rough Press WC Paper.

This composition is based on a drawing I did of broken spiral sea shells.  I scanned the drawing in to my computer.  Using Corel Painter, I made a “digital collage” – I “cut” pieces of the shell composition, focusing on the spirals, which I repeated.  I pasted the pieces onto a new composition.  I added rectangles as contrast to the organic, spiral shapes.  After printing out the digital collage, I traced the outline of the shapes to further abstract and flatten the composition.  I traced the outline onto my watercolor paper then painted in many hues of blue to allude to water.  As I went along, I repeated spirals here and there; I figure there are more than 20. 

  I almost could n't make it. Started two days ago, trying to snatch any time I could work on it. Intending to do pencil and water colors but found out the paper is of odd quality. It peels off every time I erase something and the water colors would just spread around, so I ended up using acrylics.

So here it is pencil and acrylics on paper, 10"X13" Titled :- " Old-fashioned Phone at Work". The spiral is in the telephone cords. I think it's the super spiral of all things. The advent of the telephone was phenomenon. Not every houshold had it. I remembered that we had to go the store to ask the store owner to use it. Don't remember how much we had to pay him though.

Sandi