ZEN; Another Lucid Mosaic(in process) by C.T. Rasmuss.

'ZEN(in process)'  C.T. Rasmuss, Lucid mosaic(original concept by C.T.).



Here's the Lucid Mosaic I've been workin on since, late January of this year; I've posted some conceptual drawings below, in order of conception.  Just to verify to anyone who has followed my career and my original mosaic/painting method - My direct influences for this particular style is not just the pouring method of Jackson Pollock and impasto style of Van Gogh, but here particularly like my last Mosaic('Night & Day; A Modern Dilemma' by C.T. Rasmuss) my additional influences on this one are: Frank Stella for the color/grayscale effect, and M.C. Escher concerning composition and mathematics.

 

 

 



I have included these preliminary drawings to give you a sense of my preparation that goes into, coming up with the ideas for my mosaics.  Many people, other artists and professionals of all kind always talk about being afraid of others stealing their ideas; as for me, I am some what concerned, when the thought of it crosses my mind, but I feel in my heart that I'm blessed with a talent that is to be shared with those who are willing, and if my talent/idea is truly strong and unique enuff, as I 'believe' it to be, then I've nothing to worry about.

 

 

 

Enjoy and I hope you learn something, especially from how we can learn so much from the Masters..

 

 

Link to: ZEN Part II - The Finished Piece



 



The Flower Bowl - Fresh from Rasmuss' Garden.

Flower Bowl 1  C.T. Rasmuss, Ink Print/acrylic (June 2014).

                               
I've been growing flowers and a garden for the last two years, and from last year to this year I've learned a lot, I've become more efficient and knowledgeable in the whole thing; as I have more types of flowers and volume, due to perennials that return each year and knowing better as to which annuals to buy.

Even though I don't plan on staying where I live more than just a few years, I can take what flowers I have planted with me, where I will be ahead of the game when I start fresh in a new place.  The day I find a more permanent living situation, and when I do, I plan on going all out like the great Impressionist leader, Claude Monet, where he was able to take much inspiration from world famous garden, which included his most famous Water Lilies!

Here you can see the beginnings of my flower collection for this year, at least from a month ago, it takes a bit of time to get a good amount of flowers blooming all at the same time- I'm finding out; since it was a sparse amount, I took a really neat ceramic bowl with an interesting pattern on it and placed what I had in the bowl, and rather than do a painting I figured a drawing would better do the trick! 

I was so pleased with results of the 1st drawing, I went for a second composition which I'm well pleased with also!  The two shown below are in order of creation, and the main picture up at the top of the post with a dash of some color, is a photo copy of the 1st drawing(which I also made plenty for my students to do the same, as this was a quick example of what they could do to theirs).

Flower Bowl 1 C.T. Rasmuss, Graphite (June 2014).

Flower Bowl 2  C.T. Rasmuss, Graphite (June 2014).

My advice to you is: if you would like to get more in touch with nature and have some beautiful things to paint, draw or just learn from, go plant some flowers:)

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