Flying Colors

IF • Music

Music is the universal language of mankind. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


original painting - corporate collection - Memphis, TN - USA - "The Musical Tree"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 72"H x 72"W (triptych) • © Lisa Rivas

A painter paints pictures on canvas.  But musicians paint their pictures on silence.  ~ Leopold Stokowski

IF • Unbalanced

The challenge was to create an upward movement even though it holds a center diagonal line.
Was it achieved? Please leave your opinion, thanks!

original painting - private collection - Nashville, TN  - USA - "Fall"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 38"H x 38"W • © Lisa Rivas

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore

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GESTALT is a general description for the concepts that make unity and variety possible in design.
Gestalt theory is involved with visual perception and the psychology of art among other things.
5 gestalt concepts are: Closure, Continuance, Similarity, Proximity, Alignment
Click here to read more on - GESTALT - Design & Composition

IF • Blur

Sometimes in our confusion, we see not the world as it is,
but the world though eyes blurred by the mind. ~ author unknown

original painting - private collection - Memphis, TN  - USA - "Fata Morgana"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 36"H x 40"W • © Lisa Rivas

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A "fata morgana", Italian translation of Morgan le Fay, the fairy shape-shifting half-sister of King Arthur, is a mirage, an optical phenomenon which results from a temperature inversion.