Posted in My Paintings, Natural Phenomena, tagged Butterflies, Butterfly, Language, Mary P Williams, Visual Symbols on April 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Butterflies II by Mary P Williams
If language is thought of as “a system of communication …either written or spoken,” another category might be added : visual symbols can also carry a message. This fanciful painting explores the concept that butterflies “talk” to each other using the marks on their wings. Here is a collection of marks taken from various species of butterflies with a dollop of imagination.
Posted in My Paintings, Sierra Nevada Natural History, tagged Butterflies, Language, Mary P Williams, Natural History, Visual Symbols on October 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »
or … Butterfly Calligraphy … or Butterflies and Symbols …
The Language of Butterflies I
There are several butterflies with names suggesting symbols we are all familiar with. There is the “comma” butterfly and the “question mark” butterfly, the “twin spot” and the “sickle-winged”, the “crazy eight” and the “red-disked”. Many have eye-spots intended to deceive their predators. My first painting was an attempt to assemble some of the common symbols and show them on butterflies.
Butterflies II by Mary P Williams
The second was more specific … the patterns seem like graceful, spontaneous writing … if only we could read the messages!!
Posted in My Paintings UTPA MFA, Paintings, UTPA MFA, tagged Mary P Williams, My UTPA MFA Paintings on December 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »
My latest painting is entitled “Kinetic.” I hope you like it.
Mary P Williams - "Kinetic"
Posted in My Sculptures UTPA MFA, Sculpture, UTPA MFA, tagged Found Object Sculpture, Jill Carpenter, Manuel Lince, Mary P Williams, My UTPA MFA Sculptures, UTPA MFA on October 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Here is the assignment in 3-D class: Make a free-standing sculpture, as tall as you are, and out of indigenous materials. In this case indigenous includes anything found around the studios.
Mary P Williams "3-D Palms"
For my person I did a representation of my painting with colorful “painters hands” using a mop, styrofoam, and paint.
Jill Carpenter "3-D Quinceanera"
Jill did a Quinceanera, or “Sweet Sixteen” figure, with all the Mexican symbols, as it is done here in the Rio Grande Valley.
Manuel Lince "3-D Torso"
Manuel surprised us all with a cast of a friend done in ground up corn husks which he mixed with glue, layered on her body, and sand-papered to finish it.(Sand-papered the white cast – not her body!)
Erika "3-D Robot"
Finally, Erika came up with an endearing Robot … out of items discarded by her teenage son … it was made of shoe boxes, cereal boxes, and old toy boxes. Very fanciful !
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