Another tiny landscape in colored pencil. I found it a little surprising how much black and other dark colors I used in this piece. It seems the light becomes more noticeable when it’s surrounded by darkness. #art

Last night, I opened my big box of colored pencils, Faber-Castel Polychromos, to color this little landscape. At just over 2”, it might be bigger on your phone than it is in real life. I’m trying to get myself psyched up to start painting again.

The lemons from my tree are pretty stoked about the recent rain.

A little color therapy always helps. It’s been a while since I played with my seed beads, but I thought I’d thread a needle and make some of my old favorite designs, like these Victory Pod Earrings in purple and gold. Happy Sunday!

15 September 1935 | The Nuremberg Laws - discrimination, racist & antisemitic laws, were enacted by the Reichstag in Nazi Germany. The laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship, disenfranchised them, and deprived them of most political rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws

It always makes me happy when my artwork finds a new home, but I’m really going to miss this particular painting. It’s acrylic on canvas.

Circular dogs are much easier to draw than dog shaped dogs. This painting exists to prove that you don’t have to know how to draw in order to have fun with paint. #painting

I wish someone would make a captcha with Donald’s signatures.

For example, the Republicans' effort to stop Revolution Wind project has gotten a minor amount of mainstream and social media attention, but @magaziner.house.gov committee hearing questioning about their arbitrary and capricious attempt to stop it has less than 500 views. youtu.be/IWpW000opLU?...

Here are four ways I’ve found to solve an nxnxn cube to embed a trefoil knot. Five layers is the smallest cube I’ve been able to put this knot on. On a 9cube, I’ve found solutions that use 2 colors of thread, 2 faces, and a solution that leaves the reverse side solved as solid colors.

“Infinite Holes and the Cosmic Goo” 10 inch square 
I was delighted to learn that this #watercolor and pigment ink #painting won Best Photograph, Painting, or Print at the MAA Mathfest Art Exhibit 2025. 
#mathart 
Available

The story behind this quilt from 2016 that I felt the need to repost today - https://inarticulatequilter.wordpress.com/2016/07/31/todays-quilt-is-brought-to-you-by-the-letters-w-and-q/ #quilt #quilting #sesamestreet #pbs #corporationforpublicbroadcasting

Years ago, right after I started a new job, one of the old-timers dropped by my office and asked me if I had any cookies. I opened the drawer of my desk and didn’t find any treats. So I said, “Sorry, no.” He responded, “That’s fine. The fact that you looked is what’s important. I’ll be back.”

This is a two-sided quilt I sewed while living in San Luis Obispo, a long time ago. The quilt lives in the library at SLMath (MSRI) in Berkeley. Scroll through the comments to see the other side.

What a surprise to see a quilt I sewed twenty years ago show up here in my newsfeed.

This #colorwheel was a tiny #painting, in #watercolor on cotton paper. It was a study, and I’m glad I photographed it before because I screwed up after this and ruined it. Fortunately, we have this photo. May your week be filled with tiny successes. Don’t forget to appreciate them.

Someone made this claim, and I’m curious what you all think. “When most artists make art, they have a pretty good idea what their creation will look like long before they finish it.” Is this true for you?

I call this little piece “Among the Bubbles.” I wish we all had a little firmer ground to stand on. It seems that the people are a bit isolated these days.
Ink and #watercolor on Tomoe River paper
#painting #doodle gwenbeads.etsy.com/listing/4340...

Finally got in a little doodling this week with ink and #watercolor. I call this little piece “Floating” because I feel a bit like I’m floating from one day to the next. It seems that the little aliens are having a hard time connecting lately. gwenbeads.etsy.com/listing/4339...

These pants had 4 big holes when I woke up yesterday. I was ready to toss them, but he wanted to keep them. So I skimmed a book “Mending Matters” by Katerina Rodabaugh, I drempt about mending. When I woke up, I mended them. Now they have no big holes, and I have sore fingers. #sewing #visiblemending

This is the largest Slug I've made so far using the amazing pattern by @gwenbeads.bsky.social I intend to turn it into a necklace somehow, maybe with wirework links. #beading

I recently finished a commission for a faux fur coat made with rainbow faux fur. I was left with a half yard remnant and a big pile of scraps, so I’m making hats. Every time I put one on, I feel like I’m wearing a birthday cake on my head. Eventually, I’ll have a small sale of big rainbow hats. 🌈

No Kings! There was 7 miles of peaceful protesting on El Camino from Sunnyvale to Mountain View to Palo Alto, CA. We picked a block that wasn’t going to have a lot of people on it. If the density was this thick for the whole 7 miles, and I heard it was, then there were over 10,000 people there.

No kings! www.mobilize.us/nokings/

This is always one of my favourite #ALevelMaths lessons - introducing infinite geometric series. Y12 surprised me this year by generally preferring a geometric approach over algebraic tricks - usually it’s the other way round! #MathsToday

🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪 NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people** 🧵 on some highlights...

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Just had an amazing session with a student finishing 7th grade on the difference of squares formula. We discussed examples, conjectures, generalizations and proofs. Here is my record of our conversation. She did the last two proofs without my help. #math #mathed

A new great #MathArt outlet just dropped 👇

One of my favorite things about teaching #math to children is getting to be the first person to tell them that we have a number called, “gross.”

Just finished sewing this man’s cotton t-shirt, entirely hand sewn with 100% cotton jersey, acrylic paint, and heavy weight polyester and cotton threads. The blue and olive paints are metallic and are more subtle in real life.

Basic #Math

arxiv.org/abs/2505.09627 /Elliptic Curves and the Hopf Fibration/ Nadir Hajouji, Steve Trettel abstract: By combining tools from different areas of mathematics, we obtain 3D visualizations of elliptic curves over different fields that faithfully capture the underlying algebra and geometry.

🔑🚪It’s time to escape! Check out the newest Desmos escape room! To play yourself: student.desmos.com/join/3jjxj9 (no need to log in but it will save your progress if you do) Here’s the teacher link to run it with a class: teacher.desmos.com/activitybuil... Have fun!

Is it really Black Hole Week? Yes, it really is! Well then, happy Black Hole Week to all who celebrate!!!! #BlackHoleWeek

I made a dent in my fabric collection this week. I altered my pants pattern to be baggier so I can better stretch and move in them. I also made them shorter and with a cuffed hem. The hems fall lower mid calf, well above the ankle. Button fly. Four pockets. Light weight, whimsy. #sewing

Now more than ever I need my meditative practices to ground me. Any type of fiber art does it for me so stitching labyrinths gives me a double dose of centering. The beauty is that I can find peace tracing the lines. #labyrinth #meditative #stitching

The joy of tiny art: This Conway beaded bead has 270 itty bitty beads all stitched into a hollow dodecahedron with a delightful touch of squish. This version has two colors of size 15/0s and one color of demi 11/0, but the pattern works in 11/0 or in 8/0. #mathart gwenbeads.etsy.com/listing/1890...

I sewed this t-shirt to look like a circuit board. I didn’t have enough fabric to cut it in whole pieces. When they make circuit boards, they make a whole panel of them at once connected together with lines of perforation so they can later be snapped apart into separate pieces. Hence, the shoulder.

I’ve been feeling a little unsettled lately. I call this one “A Black Hole Erupts Ketchup and Yellow Mustard.” 4” by 6” Pigments ink and watercolor on Tomoe River paper #mathart gwenbeads.etsy.com/listing/1897...

Kepler wants you to notice his lobster.

Next time you make banana bread, I encourage you to fold a couple pints of blueberries into the batter before baking.
 Yes, you can just do that. 
 I also add walnuts, vanilla, and a dash of both cinnamon and cardamom. I also cut the sugar by 1/3 to 1/2 because I don’t like it too sweet.

#MathArtMarch Day 27: Tangled I call this one “Why Knot Color” This was an exploration on how to color to create a sense of light, shadow, and depth. Colored pencil on paper #MathArt

Sierpinski Pyramid Tiling for #TilingTuesday This kind of pyramid is a quarter of a cube. #Voxel #Geometry #Tiling #Fractal

Bunny Surfs The Great Wave
This is my fourth painting inspired by Hokusai’s Great Wave, but the first in gouache, and the first with a bunny. 
 Gouache on cotton paper, sealed with wax
9” by 12” 
#watercolor #painting

Happy Sunday

Notes from the studio/workshop: Poinson's construction for a prolate gyroscope is done... and I built a prototype for a custom frame for it! #SciArt

On my bead mat #WIP a nearly finished beaded approximation of a #SchwarzD #MinimalSurface with tetrahedral symmetry #BeadWeaving #MathArt #craftsky

I strive to achieve my dog’s level of chill. #dog