Radical Impressionist: A Mathematician Paints

Karen at the Marigold Arts Exhibition: Return to the Rivers Karen Halbert is a full time landscape painter, primarily of the Southwest. She was torn away from careers in mathematics and computers to follow her life-long passion: painting. Though she paints in the Southwest, she also captures the images that permeate her dreams – of the powerful ocean waves of the Pacific, home of her childhood. Driven by the purity of elements of mathematics, found in areas such as dynamic symmetry and chaos theory, she strives to go far beyond her analytical training. The logic of composition and pattern is second nature to Halbert; she is free to experiment with other aspects that help her capture the underlying beauty of the natural world. Her training in the Classical techniques as well as Impressionism serve her well. She can concentrate on capturing the beauty of the landscape surrounding her. Driven by the light of the southwest, Halbert made a conscious life-style decision to move to...

  Albert Handell Intuitive Composition Part II Armatures applied to additional paintings chosen from the 1988 Albert Handell book, Intuitive Composition . I am very excited to share with you some information I have gathered from Albert’s book, Intuitive Composition . As I continue to re-read the book, I see references to composition principles, many which seem to be based on Mathematics or Geometry sometimes found in Dynamic Symmetry (at least from my point of view). I have selected paintings from the second part of his book that have descriptions that emphasize compositional elements that are worth analyzing from the point of view of Dynamic Symmetry. The comments reveal to me a deep interest in many of the aspects of Dynamic Symmetry. I have quoted some of the descriptions and applied armatures to the paintings for further analysis. There is much more in this book and I highly recommend it. The assumption of Intuitive Comp...

  Nov 10, DAY 2 Workshop with Karen Halbert WORKSHOP NOTES Weekend with Handell and Halbert A Deep Dive into Rocks, Water & Dynamic Symmetry: Dual Workshops with Albert Handell and Karen Halbert November 9 and 10, 2024, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Bluebird Studios, Santa Fe A Right-Brain Approach to Painting and a Left-Brain Approach to Composition Students may participate in either or both sessions. All images copyright. OUTLINE Foreword Karen Halbert - Radical Impressionist: A Mathematician Paints Introduction Videos Basic Dynamic Symmetry Armature Construction Paintings with Basic Dynamic Symmetry Armature Dynamic Symmetry Tools and Field Example Expanded Dynamic Symmetry Armature Construction (advanced) Paintings with Expanded Dynamic Symmetry Armature Golden Rectangles Root Rectangles Demo-Turbulent Lands Anatomy Ad...