POLYCHROMES

A SCREAMING COMES ACROSS THE SKY

42” x 52”
oil on canvas

The POLYCHROMES

This series arose quite by accident. I originally created a 24-step chromatic color wheel for the sunspot paintings That wheel, when inverted, would produce the same set of colors. My plan was to create a sunspot pattern, invert that pattern and rotate it 180%. The result would be like a mandala - but where the yin/yang would be very complicated and intermixed. I created a palette that was three rows of eight. Out of curiosity, I started overlaying this palette upon itself, but I vertically stretched and condensed the array as I had with the Tempo Collision paintings. So, while there would always be eight horizontal sections, the vertical sections would vary. The result is a painting made of bands of colors that evokes a reductive landscape.