Thursday on the trail bead motif…
August 9, 2018
14 features tonal parallel intervals, design by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
15 features experiment with intersecting color (middle mixture color) that would have been more successful using paper instead of ink; the result was too murky. According to Albers this exercise should illustrate a new deception the “fluting effect” found in a Doric column, which shows the illusion of volume. Fluting in architecture is the shallow grooves running vertically along a surface. The term typically refers to the grooves running on a column shaft or a pilaster, but need not necessarily be restricted to those two applications.
16 features trail bead motif, design by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
Color play… trade wine bead motifs
August 8, 2018
17 features letterform “Q” with eye bead motif, design by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
Shakespeare’s ability to create linguistic imagery established a symbolic connection between the color of green and the emotion of envy, yet green is also the color of paradise… the garden… growth… and the emergence of spring:
Merchant of Venice (II,ii,108) “How all the other passions fleet to air, As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair, And shuddering fear, the green-ey’d jealousy.”
Iago in Othello (III,iii,165) “O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-et’d monster which doth mock The meat feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger; But, O! what damned minute tells he o’er Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet soundly loves.”
18 features Yerushalmi letterform of “tzadi” with trail bead motif, designed by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
19 features Sephardi letterform of ‘kopf” with ancient eye bead designed by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
20 features Tibetan letterform of “tsa” with ancient eye bead motif designed by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
More free studies…
August 7, 2018
21 features Greek letterform of “upsilon” designed by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
22 features a light green base color, design by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
23 features a light blue base color, design by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
Free studies… X Y Z
August 6, 2018
Mosaic millefiore glass bead motifs from the nineteenth century were made with ancient techniques developed in western Asia where composite case canes of preformed unites were fused together to create colorful complex designs.
24 features a light blue base color, design by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
25 features a red base color, design by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
26 features a mauve base color, design by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
The early bird catches the worm…
July 30, 2018
“Hongry rooster don’t cackle w’en he fine a wum.” Words from “Uncle Remus and his Friends”(1892) and drawing by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
Visual Afterthoughts… Lydia Maria Child
July 25, 2018
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) began her career almost two centuries ago, and some of her writing is dated, yet some resonates today in odd ways. She address the contradiction in American society as to whether to conserve of consume with her association of ideas. Child also offered this thought: The United States is a warning rather than en example to the world.” This odd group including a bird, bees, a squirrel, a whale, a wax doll, and a horse appeared in “Fanny’s Menagerie,” Rainbows for Children (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1847): 119-131. Design by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
Going in search of Albers…
July 23, 2018
Lucky Spirit design by Meredith Eliassen, 2018. Notecard
This summer I have decided to take a break and play with color using Josef Albers Interaction with Color. Though I am not using colored papers, as he recommended, I am exploring his exercises, and in the coming weeks I will share some results.
Rosehip design by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
Even in comparing these to designs employing the same colors, the colors show that they have different interactions.
For a wanderer…
July 14, 2018
“The soul cannot rest in the landscape, no matter how fine.” Words from “In the Beginning was Love: Contemplative Words of Robert Lax,” edited with an introduction by S. T. Georgiou (2015), design by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
Summertime…
June 27, 2018
Two butterflies explore summertime, design by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
Summer lull…
June 25, 2018
In a quiet moment… a drawing of some neighborhood yerba buena by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
MME Designs's Weblog 