Termesphere Online Gallery

Author: Dick Termes

  • Three Spheres with Different Directions

    [cs_section style=”margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; “][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][cs_text]Most artists have a particular directions they take their art. I am pretty well known for my six point perspective spheres and I must say that is mainly the direction I play. There are however a number of other directions I find fascinating to explore. The last three pieces I have completed show some of the areas I find interesting. These three pieces show how many different directions you can take the sphere. [/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][cs_section style=”margin: 0px; padding: 0px; “][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/3″][x_custom_headline level=”h2″ looks_like=”h3″ accent=”false” class=”center-text “]DRIPPING DREAMS[/x_custom_headline][cs_text]Dripping Dreams is an exploration of the right side of my brain. I loosely dripped paint down the sphere and explored many different colors in artistic patterns. After it dried I sat and looked at it to see what I could see in it. This is like looking at the clouds and finding images in the clouds. The images I found I would not question where they came from or what they meant. A surreal world is the outcome of this approach. My interest in Hieronymus Bosch from the 15 hundreds seems to influence some of this.[/cs_text][/cs_column][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/3″][x_custom_headline level=”h2″ looks_like=”h3″ accent=”false” class=”center-text “]PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH[/x_custom_headline][cs_text]Practice What You Preach explores the basic elements for drawing. This is a class I teach where I show students how to draw by learning all the potentials of the cube, cylinder and the sphere. I show students how to add cubes to cubes and how to subtract cubes from cubes. I also do this with the cylinder and the sphere. This piece shows what can be done using only what I teach in that class. I now have this class as a DVD. In June South Dakota Public Television will begin turning the information on the DVD into an educational drawing series.[/cs_text][/cs_column][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/3″][x_custom_headline level=”h2″ looks_like=”h3″ accent=”false” class=”center-text “]GLOBAL PEACE[/x_custom_headline][cs_text]Global Peace explores a grid of concentric circles from one side to the opposite side. From these points radiating line also go from pole to pole. The given rectangles then have lines crisscrossing them throughout the sphere. Many tessellating patterns were found in this grid to give the viewer some insight into how many patterns can come from such a simple grid system. It is a good sphere for meditation. It gives the mind much to concentrate on. It is like a ever changing campfire.[/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section]

  • Where Has Dick Been?

    Marshall University in Huntington West Virginia has made an annual trek to the Termesphere Gallery each spring for the last four year.  They bring students from all disciplines to study spherical geometries  and six point perspective with Dick.  This year was no exception.  April 22 and 23 10 students from Marshall arrived ready to learn.  The spent two mornings with Dick and then toured the Black Hill. They are wonderful students and it was a great time for everyone.

    The Open House at the Termesphere Gallery April 30th was a huge success!  From 2-5 the Gallery was full of wonderful people excited to see the new Black Hills MOVA Globe/Termesphere.  It was great to see so many old friends and new faces.  The winner of the Black Hills MOVA Globe was ———————-from Aberdeen-.  We will have plenty of Black Hills MOVA Globes on hand this summer for the perfect momento of of the Hills.

    Dick was at Belle Fourche Middle School May 23 and 24.  He did lectures to the student body on his art as well as workshops on magnetic sticks.  The students also got to try their hand a drawing a spherical piece of art.

    Fourteen sixth graders from Whitewood Elementary will be coming to the Gallery on the 25th for a lecture and to explore the Gallery.

  • Flash to the Past

    I just received  new photos of one of my favorite spheres.  It is called Migration Patterns.  It was a piece studying the migration patterns of many birds from around the world.  Dan O’Brien helped with the subject matter of this piece.  The images of the birds show where they start from and when they end up in Spring and Winter.  There is also the image of the earth underneath and tessellating (tight fitting) arrows that are going north and south.  So this geometry does the same thing as the birds do.  These are all predatory birds.

  • Dripping Dreams


    Dripping Dreams is a 24” diameter sphere. It explored the subconscious side of my mind. As I work a lot with the left side of my brain now and then I like to make the other side do the work. I started this piece by loosely painting an abstract expressionistic painting on the sphere. Drips of paint were allowed to run down the sphere. These were later turned into drips within the painting. After finishing the abstract piece and exploring some very fun color combinations I let the piece dry. When it was dry I looked at it like you look at clouds to see what you can find for realistic images in them. These images were brought out just enough so others might see them. I moved throughout the piece finding people, birds, dragons, unrecognizable animals and strange beings. I thought about the work of Hieronymus Bosch’s painting on some of this. When I paint this kind of piece I don’t worry about why I am painting what I am painting. I allow whatever happens to happen. Others, I am sure will find some meaning.

  • Working with SDPB

    We have had wonderful news from South Dakota Public Broadcasting. The drawing DVD on how anyone can learn to draw, ”Basic Elements of Drawing” is to be developed into a series. Dick will host this series from the Gallery and Studio. This series will be developed to have an educational component complete with a Teacher’s guide, and activities aligned to educational content standards. It will also be available to the general audience so that beginners and advanced artists can learn a new way to draw in their homes. This series will be shared with the nation through PBS LearningMedia. Taping for the pilot episode will begin early summer.

  • Adventures in Brookings

    Adventures in Brookings

    Recently, Dick did a 12-piece show for a month in the Brookings Public Library which was very fun. He also gave a lecture one of the evenings and enjoyed the great questions and conversation with the attendees. Some great questions came out of that lecture. South Dakota State University had him do my video/lecture to their design students. After the lecture he did a workshop on One Through Six Point Perspective. This was a wonderful mix of art students and architectural students.

  • 18 Piece Collection in Ames, Iowa

    18 Piece Collection in Ames, Iowa

    tn_gallery showtn_Ames Library workshopOn January 8th, the Octagon Gallery in Ames Iowa hung an 18-piece collection of Termespheres. This is the second showing of Dick’s artwork at the Octagon Gallery. The first show was ten years ago. On February 11th Dick came to Iowa State University’s Center of Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, to present as part of the 2016 Donald R. Benson Memorial Lecture series a lecture on his Termespheres. He also did a One through Six Point Perspective lecture opened to the art students on the Iowa State University campus. On February 14th he did a workshop on polyhedra at the Ames Library. The participants ranged from 3 years old to beyond 80. It was a really fun filled afternoon.

  • The Brass Bed

    The Brass Bed

    tn_Brass BedThe Brass Bed is a 24” sphere painted in 1981. The theme was really fun. The scene on the spherical painting is a bedroom with an old brass bed in the room. The room also has two full length mirrors on the walls opposite each other. When you looked at the painting on the sphere you notice there are only three brass balls on the bed. The fourth brass ball is the sphere. It is reflecting the whole room. The mirrors on opposite walls reflect what is in the room over and over again.

  • Annual 2015 Holiday Open House and MOVA Globe Giveaway

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    Saddle up the reindeer, put on your jolliest grins and get ready for the Annual Termesphere Gallery Open House.

    This years event is going to be extra special with some new and exciting things.

    Find tasty treats and unique gifts for everyone on your list (there might even be something there for you.)

    Everything in the Gallery will be 10% off
    with the exception of the Termespheres and the MOVA Globes
    (so go ahead and enter the contest already)

    … Aaaaand, just in case you can’t attend the Gallery Extravaganza personally we have concocted a nifty promotion code you can use in the Termespheres.com Online Store.
    Use promo code #TermesphereMovaGiveaway when you checkout to receive a 10% discount on eligible items.

    We are giving away a beautiful MOVA Globe Termesphere

    Saturday, December 5th at 4:00 PM MST.
    Will announce the Termesphere MOVA Globe winner and will be streaming throughout the day via Periscope.
    (To learn more about how to view the ‘Scope’ go to Termespheres.com/periscope.)

  • South Dakota Hall of Fame Show, Chamberlain SD.

    Twelve Termesphere were hung at the South Dakota Hall of Fame, in Chamberlain SD. The exhibit was the perfect addition for the annual Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. This was the first time that the Hall of Fame has had an art show by a South Dakota Hall of Fame inductee.  Termes was honored to be an alumni from 2014. I hope this will continue in the years to come with many of the other Fine Arts selections.