"White and Purity'

($40.00.....mounted on a 1/8" depth clayboard panel)


"White and purity have this in common...the power to lift the human spirit." The color white has long been associated with purity. This association has deep spiritual significance and just seeing the color white has a calming effect. Walk into a room with white accents or white being the dominant color in the room and you will feel peaceful.

The power of line work to effect visual space is a wonderful design element to play around with. There may be a misconception among some lettering artists to shy away from using line work in fear of encroaching on someone else's style. I would like to dispel that fear by saying that artists have been using line work from the beginning of time. There are some artists outside the realm of lettering that base their entire body of work on lines.

Line work has the endless potential of dividing the design space into infinite shapes. There is a Spanish artist (Juan Iribarren) who uses line and color to create the most fascinating depth perceptions. It is instructive to see how other artists in all kinds of media are using line. Even beyond the elementary drawing of a line from edge to edge...all artwork consists of line because it takes a line to make a shape, although most of the time, it eludes the casual observer because the line is implied with the representation of an image rather than seeing an actual line. The point of all of this is to focus on what line work has the power to do in dividing the space.   Just a few more things to try or think about.

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