Category: Process

This section showcases unfinished work, sketches, and odds and ends. Since the purpose of this website is to archive Amy Ione’s work from the 1970s to the present, both successful and less successful work is displayed. For more information about any of the works, click on the caption below the painting or send an email.

Unfinished Circles

Unfinished Amy Ione artwork
Unfinished Circles

This unfinished composition on Masonite offers a glimpse of my painting process. The work was begun before I began my  Neuroscience and Art book, which was published  in 2024. This piece was set aside during the writing process and still awaits completion.

Circles—shapes associated with harmony and balance—form a central element of my visual vocabulary. While not the case here, at least not in this point of the image’s creation, in many of my works circles appear alongside ellipses. This is unsurprising given that an ellipse can be described as an elongated circle. In other words, the ellipse shape generalizes a circle, which is a special case of an ellipse. Continue reading “Unfinished Circles”

Cube Study with Color Gradations Sketch (2021)

Amy Ione painting
Cube Study with Color Gradations Sketch

Cube Study with Color Gradations is a compact yet deeply resonant sketch on paper showing experiments with geometry, perception, and the subtle power of color transitions. Initially, the composition appears to present a simple “cube study” but, as the title denotes, it is not just an exercise in form. The emphasis is on how nuanced gradations of hue can elevate a piece into a reflection on spatial ambiguity, visual rhythm, and the interplay between structure and sensation. Continue reading “Cube Study with Color Gradations Sketch (2021)”