The paintings shown here were chosen for this site as they are they represent the stepping stones toward the development of a

harmonic Pythagorean six color palette. Mr. P will present in more detail this process in later updates to this site. Suffice it to say it

began with the notion of applying atmospheric perspective with color. This led to painting while viewing the work with various colored

gelitan filters. At the same time Mr. P began research into various published theories and models of vision. The jumping off place was

Edwin Land's theory of vison (and it's short falls). Eventually a simple color tuning process developed where in a magenta filter is used

as a tuning fork, and a color palette is tuned (created or discovered) in very much the same way a guitar is tuned from string to string or

by way of harmonics. Of course one discovery led to another.

The painting Easter is a tradtional directly painted work compete with earth tones. The painting of Mr. Hirst and his Indian represents

the stage where color was used as compressed atmopheric perspective. Notice the the subject's foot at it darkest is purple (as in

purple mountains) and his face painted only with reds and greens. The backgound is done in blues and oranges to represent value

limits.

The painting Sarah was done in the the tuned palette. The procedure is very much the same technique as developed by the famous

American illustrator Maxfield Parish where one color (matching printer's ink) is painted all over the canvas, then another. The

difference from Parish's technique is that there is no black used and because the colors are in tune colors are made in pairs instead of

three colors plus black. See if you can identify the stages of development and the six color paintings.

Naturally, because this method was born from playing with filters, it became logical to fashion eyeglass of tuned colors. This led to the

ability to paint with a 3D effect. The advantage here is that the '3D' image is not otherwise scrambled and can be enjoyed with out use

of filters (but filters are necessary to see the 3D effect). I'm sure the model could be applied elsewhere. How this very analog concept is

applied to a digital world is very intriguing.

Of course Mr. P's critics have told him that he is just a slave to representation and 'real' artists have moved on. They may be right, but is

art more expression than it is impression?

Signed prints on canvas are available from $1000.

Commissioned work to be negotiated.

Interested parties please contact Mr.P.

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