Radical Impressionist: A Mathematician Paints

  I spent some time recently creating this very small 4x5 booklet of some of my paintings with Vista Print. I wanted to illustrate how one might analyze paintings using grids just as historic artists might have used.   I made transparencies of various grids to be superimposed over the paintings with a ratio of 3:4 (9x12, 12z16 and 18x24). Here's an illustration from the book, but have a look at the transparencies in this post below. The transparencies are not permanently in place. This allows the viewer to mix and match transparencies.  One idea would be to see if any particular grid is more effective.  You might want to read the posts on applying the grids to other paintings; eg, my post on Design Armature Examples applied to the Santa Fe River Turbulence ). I go into detail about the different grids including the Andrew Loomis' Informal Subdivision. But I will make a few descriptive comments here also.  You may also search through this blog using the search bar above. Alterna

Introduction Dynamic Symmetry grids are available from the website, Canon of Design:  https://www.ipoxstudios.com/canon-of-design-essentials/ . I recently purchased an $11.99 package with literally hundreds of grids for PHI and many ROOT rectangles and popular camera or film sizes. Some of the grids have black lines as in these examples and some white lines. Our most popular painting canvases don't necessarily have grids that fit with the same proportion, but some are quite close.   Some examples (you may select any of these for download to your computer. These inserted images are smaller than the original but useful I think; they don't need much resolution).  Note that the package I downloaded also has some very useful camera-sized grids.  The website owner has many free posts on using these grids and has some free downloads also. eg: 6x8, 9x12, 12x16, 18x24 Golden Rectangle Golden Rectangle Close to 5x7 since 7/5 = 1.4 and Root 2 = 1.414.. eg: close to 11x14 since 14/11 = 1.2