Subtract

This week's Illustration Friday prompt is Subtract-a term from maths-a subject I never felt good at when I was at school. Musing last night on 'subtract' I thought of colour theory and how it is always talked of in terms of adding colours together (for obvious reasons I know!)-mixing rather than separating (scientific processes) I thought it would be fun to think of it in the opposite way, subtracting colour rather than adding. We teach the operations of adding and subtracting as opposite and complementary. Colours that are opposite on the colour wheel are complementary. I like these kinds of moments where disciplines cross over, proving we learn in a cross curricular way and not in little compartments.
Maths +Science=Art
Creativity +Experimentation = Scientific Discovery or Art
Art +Maths = Escher and Mondrian (Have a look at Mondrimat -have a little Mondrian fun)
The list of equations could go on and on!
(Colour subtraction-exists-here is an explanation!)

Illustration Friday- 'Pale'

I had already done this painting-it is of one of Beth Robinson's strange dolls- Gothic Lolita. My name for the painting is 'Space' but 'Pale' would fit equally well.




Wood burning-I love it!

Illustration Friday-Contained

Illustration Friday link here.

I have speedily had a go at this week's theme which is 'contained'. I get the email every week but have not been able to think of anything for the last few or if I have I couldn't draw it. This week this idea popped into my head and the picture has suggested lots of other words to me including potential, future, hope, faith, imagine and nurture. I do not actually have an acorn in the house, a fact which amazes me. I have umpteen shells, stones, sticks, seed pods, skulls-all sorts of natural ephemera but no acorn. So, we took a quick trip to the park in the dark. The people next to us gave us their parking ticket as the machine was out of order. I don't know what they must have thought we were up to. We found an oak tree but no acorns. It is probably the wrong time of the year. I must find out! Anyway, I used google images for source material in the end.