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2025 Aug 24. Workshop on Composition and Armatures: Focus-Trees. Information available soon.

2024 Nov 10.Workshop on Composition and Armatures PART II. .

2023 Workshop on Composition and Armatures

Karen has a background teaching introductory math to liberal arts students. After leaving the academic world and a career in computers in Manhattan she moved to Santa Fe and has been a practicing artist for over 20 years. When the long-standing Canyon Road Gallery representing her closed two years ago, Karen began to devote herself to research in areas where Mathematics touches Art. She is currently represented by the Karen Wray Fine Art Gallery in Los Alamos.

* "Radical" is a play on words; it's the term Mathematicians use for 'root'; eg, square root. But in addition, radicals play a part in armatures.

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2025 Weekend with Halbert and Handell at the Bluebird Studio Santa Fe. Aug 23-24

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Aug 23-24. More Information available soon. Focus: TREES.and the Dynamic Symmetry of Growth

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2024 Weekend with Handell and Halbert

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Visit the Weekend with Handell and Halbert Exhibit on this website, with its more detailed description and sign-up information and its example paintings, each annotated with an armature to study:
Weekend with Handell and Halbert Exhibit.

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2023 Bluebird Popup 1-day Workshop Composition and Armatures

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2023 Workshop on Composition and Armatures

More Information: Visit the Exhibits’ tab on this site.

The link to the "Flipping Book" view of this 2023 workshop is no longer available. For information about future workshops please send an email to karen dot halbert at gmail.com

From the Classical Greek Era to the present, artists have been using armature or grid systems based on musical and mathematical principles to help create harmonious paintings, including Dynamic Symmetry Grids, Harmonic Armatures and Golden Fibonacci Spirals or Whirling Squares. The armatures form a scaffolding for paintings, providing stability and a road map for the design. Participants will learn how to use armatures to design their paintings or to evaluate existing paintings. Examples of artwork will be analyzed - participants' and Master Artist paintings.

* "Radical" is a play on words; it's the term Mathematicians use for 'root'; eg, square root. But in addition, radicals play a part in armatures.