Meet Mr. P

Mr. P. was tutored by his father, a painter and photographer from an early age. Although playing catch, the normal fare for young boys

was a common diversion, young Mr. P was sketching with his father Sundays and was learning dark room skills under a ruby red. Mr.

P’s father was a graduate of California School of Fine Arts in Oakland, and a photography buff while still in his teens in the late 1930’s.

Mr. P's first experience with an enlarger was with a home made creation made and used by his father.

Mr. P studied art under the well-known watercolorist William Arthur Phillips while in high school in Tacoma Washington, sculptor Frank

Bach, photographer James Sahlstrand, and abstract expressionist Bill Dunning at Central Washington State University, Ellensburg

Washington, where he received his Masters in Art in 1971.

Following his formal education Mr. P taught art at both the senior high and college level. However, with a desire to paint Mr. P built a

studio in Olalla, Washington and supported his family with the skills of a Jack-of-All-Trades as well as being Mr. Mom. There he

continued to paint and write and record music. He withdrew from any sort of art promotion and concentrated on his artistic life work: the

further discovery and application of quarter wave harmonics in science and nature. This is the antique pursuit that is the basis for the

Music of the Spheres and the hobby of many a mathematician, musician, and physicist.

The culmination of this work applied to his painting was the development of a new universal color model, which he demonstrates in his

work. This in turn is based in old Pythagorean Theory and is tuning color as tones in music, by harmonic order of octave (2), fifth (3/2)

fourths (4/3), Major 3rds (5/4). Minor 3rds (6/5), Major 6ths (5/3), and Minor 6ths (8/5). Instead of using a tuning fork, the artist uses a

filter. Because the eye/brain system is limited in bandwidth to one octave tempering is not necessary. The color wheel, subtractive and

additive color, color temperature, and a simplistic binary model for color reproduction are all unified in, or replaced by, one simple

operating system. The possibilities for three dimensional and computerized reproduction are very interesting indeed.

Mr. P is also a printmaker and examples of that work will be posted soon.

The paintings presented on this site represent the development of the Pythagorean color model. A description of that development in

greater detail will be coming soon.

Besides being a temple to Mr. P’s Vain Glory this site is to dedicated to all things embracing the Pythagorean harmonic cycle and the

Golden Mean in nature and the scientific application thereof. Mr. P has a number of discoveries, theories and inventions of his own

that he will post on this site and invite all readers to contribute to this page.

Currently Mr. P is working a movie dedicated to Clouds where his head is most often at home. He is a good way through production

and he hopes to have the music for the film composed soon.

In 2003 Mr. moved to the Phoenix area and has new studio space where he continues his work in music, painting and photography.