Other Art Stuff - updated 8/6/2024
This page has some art objects not related to Math Art . Many are my copies of somebody else's originals with a few of my originals, mostly in acrylic. I've taken the photos on the floor, a table or the easel, so you'll see some weird edges.
Picasso's 3 musicians
lady golfer blasting out of the sand trap- modeled after Miki de Goodaboom , a Spanish artist (https://www.artmajeur.com/en/goodaboom/artworks/8737672/golf-passion ) I did this image twice for golfer friends. (I can't technically get the one on the right to upload without the 'ripples' - aaarrrgggh.....
after Escher's hand drawing hand, with diversity
Vladimir Kandinsky look alikes - composition 8, black & violet, and a sketch in his book . I kept one and gifted 2.
A white dwarf star merges with a neutron star forming a compact binary object. It is a slightly altered version of an artist's illustration I found on the web on an astronomy page. for an astrophysicist.
"Quantum wave" - same as above, just a different web page. I have no idea how this represents a quantum wave, but I found it interesting and wanted to try some blending techniques.
Normal Rockwell copy- the Doctor and the Doll. This was for my wife .
copy of Miro's 'the garden' .
Gary Larson's cartoons I thought were funny
Starrry Stonehenge (after Painting with Jane lesson on YouTube) , 1 for my sister-in-law
Solar system & stars (with and without labels - for my grandson.
Adeldon's illusion (corner squares and the square in the center of the apple shadow are the same color (hue) as shown by the strip joining the two in the second photo.
abstracts for a pink room 'domino crystal' and 'stopover'
JazKat - this was for a friend who likes cats .
phi glass rectangles vertices link to form an icosahedron - metal hanger yet to be added.
Hank and parents 8 x 10 - for my doctor
"Tom" , a friend who works in a salvage yard where I often find metal things I use to make other things. The piece is cutting off the big pipe was used as part of the tree bark in the "tree-foil" piece displayed on my math art page.
This is a likeness from Douglas Hofstadter's colorized "butterfly" phase diagram at zero temperature. In condensed matter physics, Hofstadter's butterfly is a graph of the spectral properties of non-interacting two-dimensional electrons in a perpendicular magnetic field in a lattice. I don't pretend to understand what this means - I just liked the image. I spoke with Dr. Hofstadter and he gave me permission to paint it.
Out of Africa - a steel sculpture 8 x 6 x 1" (head), 9 x 7 x 3/8 " map base. I started with a flat thick slab of steel and added layers like a topo map to get the three dimensional feel.
mailbox
This is modeled after Swedish sculptor Gustafsson's "Grus Grus" which is scientific name for a crane. My version has each steel component heat treated to a different (subtle) color. 26 1/2 x 7 x 7"
This is a post puller. I use rebar to anchor my tomato cages and in the spring when I push them in moist ground, they easily go in deep . In the fall, its like pulling them out of concrete (lots of clay soil in Indiana). This device helps.
The garden trellis entry arch. Cattle panels affixed to 1" black pipe (story is below)
I guess this could be called the Hobbit Farm Welcome Arch. I dug some holes and used 8" round concrete forms for the pillars, then encased a section of scrap I-beam on top. Inside the groove of the I beam is the concrete slab that was used to form the garden trellis arch (seen above) . The hole in the concrete slab was just to reduced the weight, but it now serves as the window for the 'art'. A storm knocked down one of the old semi dead trees and a section of that provided an outer ring of hardwood that surrounds a circle of cocobolo carving I made about 40 years ago - the man in the moon gazing at his lucky star. Surrounding that and in the center of a glass background are glass star flowers that Lynette made. She also made the vertical flowers and grass in front of the arch.
Lynette's Bark Art faces (from the trees in our little woods) hanging on the garden fence and a mosaic glass decorative plate
There are more but I couldn't find the individual pics.