Mirror Paintings and Early Starts (Vol. 3)

About the Book

Most of the artwork in this portfolio is from 2022 through 2024. In Chapter 1, I include previously unpublished, and new drawings from 1981 through 1987. Chapter 2 includes drawings from 2009, 2012, and 2014. All of the drawings are arranged in chronological order. They are all my original artwork. Most of the drawings are designed to be able to be painted on a twelve inch square mirror, or mirrors in the shape of a golden rectangle, a root-two rectangle, or a root-five rectangle. The golden rectangle is supposed to be a shape most pleasing to the human eye. Its proportions are derived from the golden section, which is (1+ √5)/2, or 1.6180… The golden ratio can be derived from a root-five rectangle. My other works include Mirror Poems, Mirror Paintings and Early Starts: Volumes 1 and 2, Essays on Philosophy and Physics, The Golden Section: An Ancient Egyptian and Grecian Proportion and The Early Poems.

About the Author

Steven Griffing was born in Canberra, Australia, A.C.T., in 1956. His family moved to Columbus, Ohio in 1964. Steven has been an American citizen all of his life. Steven graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio in 1979 with a major in mathematics. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1980. Steven received a State of California teaching certificate for secondary education in mathematics in 1984. He moved back to Columbus, Ohio from Los Angeles in 1991. His current activities, and interests include gardening, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, creating geometric drawings, and working on his various publishing projects. Steven enjoys close relationships with all three of his sisters.