Spherical artworks by Dick Termes

Dick Termes creates unique type of artworks. While many artists paints on flat canvas he paint his artworks on spheres. He calls them termespheres. Dick uses special six point perspective for his artworks. It's more natural for this type of paintings as traditional perspective with one vanishing point is natural for flat paintings.

The image that we see at termesphere can be imagined as view from inside transparent sphere at real world. Imagine that you are standing inside the glass sphere and drawing on inner surface all what you see around you. Then you take a step out of the sphere and looks at result of your painting from the outside.

It's noticeable influences of Escher at artworks of Dick Termes. We can find likeness between spherical artworks and Escher's lithograph "Hand with reflecting sphere". But in this case we don't see our distorted face but holistic vision of environment.

Food of Thought

Emptiness

Crop circles

Many people think that crop circles are result of UFO landing. They appears in darkest nights and we see their traces on grass fields. I will not dispute this opinion, because nobody contact UFO and wind of helicopter propeller looks more realistic reason of natural simple crop circles formation.

Inspired by natural crop circles enthusiasts croppers create own artificial crop circles. Often the more exact name for artificial crop circles is crop figures because they don't have rounded shape but more complicated. Croppers depict various types of figures such as polygons, fractals, artistic images. Every year contest of circle croppers is being taken at http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/

Below there are some examples of crop circles.

Six ray stars	Julia set
Penrose triangle	Koch snowflake

Bathsheba Grossman - A Twist In Time

Bathsheba Grossman (2002)

A Twist In Time

This snow sculpture was entered in the Breckenridge International Snow Sculpture Championship, 2002. Its genus is that of a Klein bottle with one handle and two holes, so it has one side and two edges.

Gwen Fisher - Symmetry 1

Gwen Fisher

Symmetry 1

Symmetry 1 shows representations of five of the 17 wallpaper symmetry groups. All 17 of the wallpaper groups can be illustrated with the use of just two grids: the standard square grid and the isometric grid. This work was inspired by M. C. Escher artworks such as "Metamorphosis", "Metamorphosis II" or "Regular Division of the Plane".

Artwork by Jos de Mey

Jos de Mey (1979-1980)
(oil on canvas)
Unidentified stone object (Uso) located in the belgian sahara near knokke

Unlike other artists's artworks there's no birds or other flying objects on the artwork.