Gwen Fisher
@gwenbeads.bsky.social
I teach math and make art.
Ph.D. Mathematics Education
beads, fabric, paint, pencils
Etsy: https://gwenbeads.etsy.com
Ph.D. Mathematics Education
beads, fabric, paint, pencils
Etsy: https://gwenbeads.etsy.com
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Gwen Fisher
@gwenbeads.bsky.social
· Jan 8
Hi. I’m new here. I’m a math tutor who loves math and making art. I weave beads using math and geometry, sew and mend clothes, draw, and paint. I like math art and rainbows. Two of my favorite things to paint are black holes and color wheels.
Stay connected.
#mathart #blackhole #introduction
Stay connected.
#mathart #blackhole #introduction
“Maybe there was an old trapper that lived out here, and one day he went to check his beaver traps, and maybe he fell into the river and drowned. But his old cabin is still here. So let’s draw an old cabin.”
-Bob Ross
After Bob Ross,
season 1, episode 6, Winter Moon
Gouache on cotton paper, 4.5”
-Bob Ross
After Bob Ross,
season 1, episode 6, Winter Moon
Gouache on cotton paper, 4.5”
December 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
“Maybe there was an old trapper that lived out here, and one day he went to check his beaver traps, and maybe he fell into the river and drowned. But his old cabin is still here. So let’s draw an old cabin.”
-Bob Ross
After Bob Ross,
season 1, episode 6, Winter Moon
Gouache on cotton paper, 4.5”
-Bob Ross
After Bob Ross,
season 1, episode 6, Winter Moon
Gouache on cotton paper, 4.5”
“Quiet Stream” started with a base of green, and then a wash of blue. Is it a great #painting? I don’t care. I had so much fun painting this one. All of this leafy green put me totally in my happy place.
After Bob Ross,
season 1, episode 5, Quiet Stream
#Gouache on cotton paper, 4.5”
After Bob Ross,
season 1, episode 5, Quiet Stream
#Gouache on cotton paper, 4.5”
December 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Here’s my fourth attempt at following a Bob Ross tutorial using #gouache. This #painting made me cold. It also took me four times as long to paint as the others because I had to wash my brush constantly.
After Bob Ross,
season 1, episode 4, Winter Mist
Gouache on cotton paper, 5”
After Bob Ross,
season 1, episode 4, Winter Mist
Gouache on cotton paper, 5”
December 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Here’s the result of my third attempt at following a Bob Ross tutorial using gouache. This is the first time I’ve tried painting by starting with a base in a dark color, then adding the lights on the dark background.
After Bob Ross,
season 1, episode 3, Ebony Sunset
Gouache on cotton paper, 4.75”
After Bob Ross,
season 1, episode 3, Ebony Sunset
Gouache on cotton paper, 4.75”
December 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Here’s the result of my third attempt at following a Bob Ross tutorial using gouache. This is the first time I’ve tried painting by starting with a base in a dark color, then adding the lights on the dark background.
After Bob Ross,
season 1, episode 3, Ebony Sunset
Gouache on cotton paper, 4.75”
After Bob Ross,
season 1, episode 3, Ebony Sunset
Gouache on cotton paper, 4.75”
Here’s my second Bob Ross #landscape in #gouache. I learned how to paint reflections in ponds including that little white edge that goes right at the bank line.
After Bob Ross,
season 1, episode 2, Mt. McKinley
Gouache on cotton paper, 4.5”
#painting
After Bob Ross,
season 1, episode 2, Mt. McKinley
Gouache on cotton paper, 4.5”
#painting
December 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Here’s my second Bob Ross #landscape in #gouache. I learned how to paint reflections in ponds including that little white edge that goes right at the bank line.
After Bob Ross,
season 1, episode 2, Mt. McKinley
Gouache on cotton paper, 4.5”
#painting
After Bob Ross,
season 1, episode 2, Mt. McKinley
Gouache on cotton paper, 4.5”
#painting
I decided that I need to do more of Bob Ross’ #painting tutorials. I’ve been meaning to start painting again anyway, and I’m sure his instructions will help me loosen up a bit. I figured I’d start at the beginning with season 1, episode 1.
December 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I decided that I need to do more of Bob Ross’ #painting tutorials. I’ve been meaning to start painting again anyway, and I’m sure his instructions will help me loosen up a bit. I figured I’d start at the beginning with season 1, episode 1.
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
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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.
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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.
October 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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!
Happy Sunday!
October 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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!
Happy Sunday!
Reposted by Gwen Fisher
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
September 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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.
Very excited to have some original @gwenbeads.bsky.social art hanging in my home!!
September 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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
September 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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.
September 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I wish someone would make a captcha with Donald’s signatures.
Reposted by Gwen Fisher
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?...
youtu.be/IWpW000opLU?...
Trump Administration Unprepared and Evasive Under Magaziner’s Questioning About Revolution Wind
YouTube video by Rep. Seth Magaziner
youtu.be
September 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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?...
youtu.be/IWpW000opLU?...
Reposted by Gwen Fisher
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.
October 15, 2023 at 12:44 PM
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
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
August 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“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
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
Reposted by Gwen Fisher
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
https://inarticulatequilter.wordpress.com/2016/07/31/todays-quilt-is-brought-to-you-by-the-letters-w-and-q/
#quilt #quilting #sesamestreet #pbs #corporationforpublicbroadcasting
August 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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
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.”
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.”
August 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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.”
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.
One of @gwenbeads.bsky.social's beautiful mathematical quilts hangs in the Austine McDonnell Hearst Library at SLMath (MSRI), where it has been enjoyed by many of our visitors over the years. She has shared more about it here: www.beadinfinitum.com/GwenGallery/....
August 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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.
At #MAAthFest, Beth Malmskog discusses squaring the quilting circle and shows Gwen Fisher’s Quarternion quilt. Read more at: old.nationalcurvebank.org/quilt/quilt....
August 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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.
August 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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?
Is this true for you?
July 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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?
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...
gwenbeads.etsy.com/listing/4340...
July 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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...
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...
gwenbeads.etsy.com/listing/4339...
July 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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...
gwenbeads.etsy.com/listing/4339...