April 2007 - minimalism - I used the Linear Stock Fill under Custom to create this very strong piece - I divided the composition in half form the upper right corner down to the lower left corner with the largest aresa of the piece - you can notice the gradation moving frrom blue to black - I made a smaller level of this kind of gradation - did not fill one area with blue so the black I was using along with theblue could be seen - I moved to the bottom right corner I began to move towards the center of the piece with a very small blue section still working with the main flow of the piece - the odd thing about thisis that this small section seems to curve upwards towards the center of the piece - I place a a medium size black contour line around the piece - the totally black areas blend into this line which creates some visual tension in the piece plus all thediagonal lines do the same thing - I use diagonals as much as I can to create Visual Tension on a 2D picture plane - the reason for this is to make it so you cannot stand & focus one area for very long - the tension forces you to move your eyes constantly over & over this composition done in Black & Blue