Roy Behrens

Roy Richard Behrens (/ˈbɛərənz/; born 1946) is an American artist and academic who is an emeritus professor of art and distinguished scholar at the University of Northern Iowa.

He is well known for his writings on camouflage in relation to art, design and creativity as detailed in False Colors, Camoupedia, Ship Shape and additional books and essays on the subject.

Following high school, he studied for a summer in California with Master Potter Marguerite Wildenhain, who had been a student in 1919 at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany.

[10] Mike Leggett, reviewing the book in Leonardo, wrote that "the outcome of enthusiastic research it is, but an entertaining summary of the field it also manages to be.

"[11] Michael Martone calls Behrens "a wonderful writer and artist ... whose work on camouflage and art is important to me.

Behrens has written extensively on the interface between camouflage and art , including on the theories of the artist Abbott Handerson Thayer , who argued that the male wood duck 's conspicuous plumage was disruptively patterned , rather than sexually selected . [ 1 ] (Painting Male Wood Duck in a Forest Pool by Thayer, 1909)