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. https://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.