Grids for Paintings: Circles of Different Sizes

Video Transcript

"There's a few, there's not a few, there's probably many ways to create grids with a compass. I'm going to show you one. You go and you make a small circle. You draw a line from that circle. It doesn't have to be very long and I'm going to divide that line into equal increments. I'm just going to give myself a few points. I'm going to place my compass on where that first line meets the line of the circle. I'm going to come over here and I'm going to go just outside my first circle. So I'm going to make a bigger circle like that. Go to the next point, go to the outside of the circle, the next point, outside of the circle, and you get the idea. By the time you go over here you've sort of moved back over here and you can see there's this kind of spinning motion going on, that could be a lot of fun. And then if you go ahead and you then divide these lines into portions and you have each one of these be a motif, you can start getting some really interesting things happening with black and white and so on moving in and out of this circle. That's another way that, by how you do your grid you can build movement and dynamics into your design."