Christmas open House – Dec 3rd and 4th
We are excited about our open house this year.
We will be open 9:00am to 4:00pm on Saturday and Sunday.
If you can’t make those days and you want a unique gift, we will be open every day until December 23rd. We have lots of new things this year with a supply of Solar/Termespheres and a new 540 piece spherical puzzle Termesphere that actually ends up in the form of a sphere. We will have coffee , cookies and other goodies waiting for you. Also, there are about 60 major spheres to choose from with 10% off. The MOVA Globe/Termespheres will not be part of the 10% off.
The Mova/Termespheres are finally here!
Just in time for Christmas we received a larger supply of Mova/Termespheres at the Termesphere Gallery. These signed and numbered limited edition spheres can be found on my site showing full motion. http://termespheres.com/mova/ We have the PANTHEON , FISH EYE VIEW and FROM THE EARTH. An explanation of these pieces is found below. We are very pleased to have these available before Christmas this year and our Open House. These are also the first time we have been able to reproduce my work with this kind of full color.
How Does it Work?
My Termesphere floats inside a transparent sphere. Within my sphere is a solar cell which picks up light and powers a motor that keeps the inside sphere spinning. Having it float in a liquid makes it easier for the motor to turn the sphere. The motor pushes off of the magnetic field of the Earth much like a compass. I received 60 of these spheres in the first shipment, 30 of the PANTHEON and 30 of the FISH EYE VIEW. Over the last couple of years I have had a prototype of the PANTHEON in the Gallery. The people who signed up in the gallery to be notified when they arrived were given the first chance at owning one. But as of last Friday, the Mova/Termespheres are available to everyone. As you can tell, I am very excited about this mixture of the Termesphere and the Mova Globe solar motion. It is very cool and people seem to really love them.
Califonia Art Teachers Association Convention
I went to the Califonia Art Teachers Association Convention November 4th and 5th. They asked me to be one of the keynote speakers at their state conference in Bakersfield. This was very exciting to project my videos onto their 20 foot screens and talk about my work and where it comes from. I also gave a three hours Masters class on One through Six Point Perspective for some of the teachers. It was fun to see how teachers related to my work. It went over very well.
eBook called Geometry in Art by Hilton Andrade de Mello
I wanted you to see this. It is really a very good book and he has a lot on the Termesphere in the book which I like, of course. This is a free download which is even better.
Trademark
After 43 year of painting Termespheres I now own the trademark on Termespheres. You wouldn’t think that would have to be so hard but it took forever for this to take place.
Puzzleball Sphere
Ravensburger, a German puzzle company-one of the oldest in the world, has produced a very neat 540 piece spherical puzzle of my sphere CUBICAL UNIVERSE. It is a plastic hollow sphere that fits together amazingly well.
Five Dimensional Rooms
Is my newest 12″ piece. It grew from an interesting polyhedron study of the dodecahedron. When you cut across one of the twelve pentagons with a straight line and continue that system around the polyhedron from polygon to polygon you can get a cube to appear. If you do that same system with all the sides to the pentagons you will end up with five cubes arranged around the sphere. I thought of myself inside each of these cubes, as if they were cubical rooms. But each room is at a different angle so this becomes a 30 point perspective Termesphere. The cubical rooms are color coded so you can keep track of where you are. I let a part of each cubical room be dominant for a certain period of time. Each of these five rooms have their own six point perspective. Objects like canes and boxes show up in some of the rooms which are different colors. They come from the rooms which fit their colors and their perspective fits with those rooms.
Carnegie Art Center Sphere
My latest commission is of the interior of the Carnegie Art Center in Alliance Nebraska. This is the drawing stage of a 24″ diameter sphere showing the total environment inside the center. Many of the people who have worked hard to put this Art Center together are shown throughout the painting putting up an art show or doing other activities. The paintings being put up are all scenes of Alliance. So you are seeing inside what is outside the Art Center. This sphere will hang in the spot it is hanging in the gallery.
The first is a long awaited breakthrough. We can finally offer two different signed and numbered 
The second is a Ravensburger Termesphere 540 piece,
We are excited about our open house this year. We will be open 9 to 4 on Saturday and Sunday. If you can’t make those days and you want a unique gift, we will be open every day until December 23rd. We have lots of new things this year with a supply of Solar/Termespheres and a new 540 piece spherical puzzle Termesphere that actually ends up in the form of a sphere. We will have coffee , cookies and other goodies waiting for you. Also, there are about 60 major spheres to choose from with 10% off. The MOVA Globe/Termespheres will not be part of the 10% off.
After about three years of exploring the concept, the Mova Globe Company and the Termesphere Gallery have joined together to produce some wonderful new pieces of art. We have put together a great site to see these at
I have been commissioned by Nels Smith and his wife Jeanette to paint a 24″ Termesphere of the Smith Ranch. SMITH RANCH SPHERE has been in process for a number of months now. I am working at capturing the feeling of the land and the Smith family who have lived on the ranch since 1909. One of the main focal points of the ranch is Inyan Kara Mountain. Bob Daczewitz his brother in law and I climbed it this summer. One of the reasons was to find a rock on the top that Custer had carved his name into. It didn’t take long to find the carving because when you know Custer, you know he would carve it on the VERY TOP. We found it and also were very impressed with the view from the top. Custer was trying to find a cut across through the Black Hills. I was looking for artistic views for my spherical painting. The mountain is like a large spiral leading to its rocky top. It took us 6 ½ hours to go up and down it but it was a wonderful experience.
This new sphere takes advantage of the illusion of the sphere looking like a hole or flipping concave. When you first look at this piece you think you are looking at birds in a cage. After some study you realize you are the one in the cage and the birds are outside looking in at you. This video shows it very well. If you find yourself in the cage, I am not sure if you will find a way to get back out. But it’s OK, you should have lots of friends that have ended up there with you too.
This painting has an interesting story behind it. After I started this six sided pyramid teepee painting I realized if I were going to include the great Lakota Headmen I should find out from the Lakota elders who they felt were their great headmen or chiefs. Not only was this going to be a painting for me but I also had a commission from the Little Wound High School in Kyle South Dakota to work with art students to build an eight foot replica for their commons area within the school.
The finished piece was brighter than the prototype but it worked well. One student came up to me with a suggestion of adding their school out the door of the teepee. I thought this was a great idea, connecting the past to the present and the future. He designed the image and painted it in the doorway. This was done in 1999. It still hangs in the common area of Little Wound High School.
The Sixth Annual Termesphere Gallery Open House is fast approaching! December 4th and 5th are the days. I hope you can stop out or go to the website, www.Termespheres.com. For those two days, everything–except the Mova/Termespheres–is 10% off—both at the Gallery and on the website.