16″ Termesphere
Painted: 2016
Location: Termesphere Gallery
This new 16″ diameter sphere plays with six artists looking at the same total room around them and drawing with different systems of perspective.
- The first lady in yellow on the outside of the railing is using a system of one point perspective looking straight north and getting a small part of the room on her flat canvas.
- To her right is a guy using a two point perspective system to capture what he is seeing ahead of him. His canvas captures from north to east directions or 90 degrees of his horizon.. He doesn’t capture very much of what is above or below.
- The third guy with three point perspective gets to see the point below him and north to east around himself. He captures 1/8th of the total space below and in front of him with straight lines. The octahedron sits to his right showing a good way to see what that 1/8th is all about. One of the triangles of the octahedron is one eighth of the total environment.
- Next, we have a woman with a white shirt who is exploring four point curved line perspective. She sees the point above and below her along with what she sees from east to south.
- The next person uses a grid that includes north, east, south, west and back to north points of perspective. There are no points above or below. These lines go straight up and down, parallel to each other. This is cylindrical perspective. There is a cylinder next to the artist that shows where this system comes from.
- The sixth artist is looking into a hemisphere to find inspiration for his canvas using a five point system of perspective. This canvas gives the artist half of the spherical images or a south, west, north, east, up and down points, or five points. This is a lot like a fish eye lens effect from the camera. The center of this system receives only straight lines.
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The last artist is sitting looking at a sphere with a six point perspective grid on it. This is the grid that makes the total sphere you are looking at possible.