Pencil Art Evolves Into Unusual Sculptures

Mon, 12 May 2008 01:39:40 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Before pencils, Maestre was originally building with nails and a liquid rubber-type glue. She started to worry about inhaling all the toxic fumes, however, and began to experiment with different techniques until she settled on beading. Her method of choice? The peyote stitch.
#3 In Watchtower, Maestre focuses on a more architectural form. Peer inside and you'll see a series of pencil struts spiraling up like a staircase in a tower.
#4 Maestre was originally inspired by the push-pull reaction she had to sea urchins.
#5 Hive is one of Mastre's unintentionally more suggestive sculptures. "Certain viewers find it a little obscene," she says. "Maybe because I used the pink eraser ends to outline the orifices." (OK?)
#6 Some see a frog, others a gorilla, and some even an Egyptian mask. What does Threnody look like to you? Maestre may not know herself, but her primary goal was to convey the feeling of something howling.

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Stitched-Together Pencils Evolve Into Beastly Sculptures

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The History of the Color Wheel

Sun, 11 May 2008 20:23:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: As the disk spins, the colors blur together so rapidly that the human eye sees white. From there, the organization of color has taken many forms, from tables and charts, to triangles, and wheels the history.

A nice explanation for each color organization system at the source: http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/05/08/history-of-the-color-wheel/

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The first color wheel has been attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, who in 1706 arranged red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet into a natural progression on a rotating disk.

The First Color Organization Systems

Gautier’s color-printed picture accompanied one of his many anti-Newtonian publications about color theories. The band of color at the center imitates an illustration in Newton’s Opticks but “proves” Gautier’s assertion that all colors cannot be found in Newton’s spectrum of light.

Color tables expand the color bar, literally and figuratively. They offer a similarly recognizable display of information, but one that suggests interior relationships through size, shape, or placement of the colored areas.

Richard Waller’s Basic Chart

Schäffer’s Table

Mayer’s Color Triangle

An Early Eighteenth-century Color Wheel

Other Color Circles

Wilhelm von Bezold’s 1874

Color Wheel Basics

PRIMARY COLORS

SECONDARY COLORS

TERTIARY COLORS

COMPLEMENTARY COLORS

ANALOGOUS COLORS

Color Wheels in Life and Art

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Pencil Art Evolves Into Unusual Sculptures

Stitched-Together Pencils Evolve Into Beastly Sculptures

The History of the Color Wheel

Color Wheel Basics

Color Wheels in Life and Art