{"id":904,"date":"2014-04-09T20:59:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T03:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illustratescience.wordpress.com\/?p=904"},"modified":"2014-07-05T02:17:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T02:17:15","slug":"green-art-chlorophyll-that-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/?p=904","title":{"rendered":"Green Art (Chlorophyll, that is)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chlorella Fresco<\/p>\n<p>I was so captivated by this microscopic green algae that I decided to paint it, and large! I imagined the composition of overlapping circles, and using the full sweep of my arm. All while contemplating the little photosynthesizers.<\/p>\n<p>Chlorella was a research organism used to study and understand cell respiration, and the process of photosynthesis. Nobel prize-winning Melvin Calvin (of <em>the<\/em> Calvin Cycle) worked with Chlorella&#8230; and it may fog the waters of your very own home aquarium.<\/p>\n<p>Painting&#8217;s progress<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/chlorella-fresco_in-progress2.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/chlorella-fresco_inprogress1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-911\" src=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/chlorella-fresco_inprogress1.jpg\" alt=\"chlorella fresco_inprogress\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/chlorella-fresco_inprogress1.jpg 648w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/chlorella-fresco_inprogress1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/illustratescience.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/chlorella-fresco_inprogress.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a>After making a panel of plaster on burlap, I started painting with watered down ink, to find the positions and sizes of the circles. And rearranged them, shifted them, removed and put them back, until the composition was dynamic and balanced enough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/chlorella-fresco_in-progress2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-910\" src=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/chlorella-fresco_in-progress2.jpg\" alt=\"chlorella fresco_in progress2\" width=\"432\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/chlorella-fresco_in-progress2.jpg 432w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/chlorella-fresco_in-progress2-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the piece flat on the floor, I let the ink (darker now) form pools and started to define the white edges. Later, upright, I painted layers of mineral pigments into the centers of the algae spheres, aiming for GREEN. The lemony-est yellow, and gold, layered with blue and a beautiful turquoise that still was too pale. I burnished to intensify the colors, sanded back to white in places, on and on. And on.<\/p>\n<p>See this and other &#8220;Magnified&#8221; artwork \u00a0on my Facebook page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Art-of-Krista-Anandakuttan\/259315344228686?code=35405\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Art of Krista Anandakuttan&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_887\" style=\"width: 648px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/kristaanandakuttan_chlorellafresco.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-887\" class=\" wp-image-887\" src=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/kristaanandakuttan_chlorellafresco.jpg\" alt=\"Chlorella Fresco, Krista Anandakuttan 2014\" width=\"638\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/kristaanandakuttan_chlorellafresco.jpg 351w, https:\/\/illustratescience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/kristaanandakuttan_chlorellafresco-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chlorella Fresco, Krista Anandakuttan 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chlorella Fresco I was so captivated by this microscopic green algae that I decided to paint it, and large! I imagined the composition of overlapping circles, and using the full sweep of my arm. All while contemplating the little photosynthesizers. 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