Colour wheels

There are a whole host of colour wheels in this great book I've been looking at "Colour and Culture" by John Gage. I just love the combination of scientific exploration and ornamentation. These little putti just seem to get everywhere!

The formation of the rainbow

I love these diagrams! look at the little dog to the right of the man, he's looking at a disembodied eye just growing out of the ground, which in turn is gazing at the double rainbow. This is from "Physica Sacra" by J.J. Scheuchzer 1731.

In the studio

I've been trying to find ways of expressing my interest in how a landscape might be defined by the names used for the places in that landscape. I've started in quite a basic way, using an OS map of the Tarset area, I selected place names with the word black in them. Tracing round the names gave me the starting point for this new topography, simply repeating this with paler and paler ink created a new 'map'.