Reds and Greens:Yang and Yin What comes to mind when you read Yin and Yang? For us, it is balance, reciprocity, harmony, and serenity. In the language and spirit of Artful Awareness, we chose to name this painting “Yang and… Read More »Reds and Greens: Yang and Yin
Reds and Greens:The Green Bottle When layered, red and green paint form a black color. This particular still life arrangement investigates this notion: what happens to these two colors when a green bottle is placed in front of a red… Read More »Reds and Greens: The Green Bottle
Reds and Greens:Three Green Pears This painting is another example of experimenting with the colors, red and green, in the composition. In addition to having fun with the juxtaposition of red and green, there is also the play of placing… Read More »Reds and Greens: Three Green Pears
Reds and Greens:Hot Red Peppers The primary colors red, yellow and blue form a triangle on a circular color wheel. Our eyes perceive colors as more vibrant when any two colors that are directly opposite from one another on the… Read More »Reds and Greens: Hot Red Peppers
Practicing Stillness:Seeing Simplicity It is fascinating to consider that the human eye mainly sees in shades of grey. Most of the receptors in the eye collect light value and only a small number of the receptors perceive color. When we… Read More »Practicing Stillness: Seeing Simplicity
Practicing Stillness:Seeing Color Red, yellow and blue—the primary colors. What makes them primary? Such a fascinating question: why is it that these three colors cannot be created by using other colors to mix them, as is the case with non-primary… Read More »Practicing Stillness: Seeing Color
Practicing Stillness:Spacious Mug One of the biggest questions when organizing a still life composition is deciding where the objects belong. Do they fill the entire frame, or is there a space left around the object? Are there many objects filling… Read More »Practicing Stillness: Spacious Mug
