Cynthia Mosser

Darren Waterston's painting, "In-Between", 2002 (oil on canvas mounted on board), is one I admire for its attention to detail, every time I visit the Portland Art Museum (OR, USA).

Stranger Visions is a series of portraits strained from discarded cigarette butt DNA found on Dublin, Ireland streets. A custom computer program distills traits and creates a 3-D print. The idea started from artist, Heather Dewey-Hagborg's thoughts about a single strand of hair, and how study of  its genetic traits may lead to discovering the owner's identity. May I say...creepy!? Image source: dublin.sciencegallery.com

I am absolutely intrigued by the color and shape combinations by German designer, André Britz. Not only do the changed fruit colors play with our perceptions, but their juxtaposition within the colored background suggest a sophisticated sense of design, and create a visually interesting portrait. Image source: behance.net

What is a pattern? Wikipedia provides an insightful entry... A pattern , apart from the term's use to mean " Template " [a] , is a discernible regularity in the world or in a man made design. As such, the elements of a pattern repeat in a predictable manner. Any of the five senses may directly observe patterns. Conversely, abstract patterns in science, mathematics, or language may be observable only by analysis. Direct observation in practice means seeing visual patterns, which are widespread in nature and in art. Visual patterns in nature are often chaotic , never exactly repeating, and often involve fractals . Natural patterns include spirals , meanders , waves , foams , tilings , cracks , and those created by symmetries of rotation and reflection . Patterns have an underlying mathematical structure; [1] indeed, mathematics can be seen as the search for regularities, and the output of any function is a mathematical pattern. Similarly in the scie...

If every picture is worth a thousand words, this one could quite possibly be worth a million... Image source: miscpix.com

Start with a style and you are in chains,  start with an idea and you are free. -Richard Avedon

Celebrating 12 years of sketchbooks. My preferred size is 9in x 12in, bound, by either Canson or ProArt.