Nature’s Little Secret

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.  – Henry David Thoreau

Nature’s Secret

The Golden Spiral

Giving Birth to  Imagination

The Golden Spiral is a fabulous compositional rule.  The fern is just one example of the Golden Spiral found in nature.  Sea shells are another.  Flowers yet another.   The Golden Spiral is one component of the Golden Ratio of composition. The Golden Spiral is a powerful compositional tool, not easy to master, but fun to practice and observe. Did you know that iPhones, credit cards, and Kit-Kats are all designed using the Golden Ratio?

 If you would like to learn more about the Golden Ratio compositional rule, click here or here.

 

The Need of Ideal to Live the Real

“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.”- Victor Hugo

A Look into the Real

The real, no Longer ideal, or is it?