The basic theme for my semester's painting project has remained the same for all six paintings. I set out to create a compositional order in each that was to be preserved within the picture plane whether in very simple or in highly complex form. By using internal order for my central theme, I was merely segregating an element that must be present in any creative product for it to function as "art". While this sense of order always guided my efforts, it was also used as a framework within which the separate elements of color, form, and the by-product texture could be manipulated
