LINE

This weeks lesson was on line. For the first part of the project due we were asked to draw lines with different medium. The lines needed to repressent four different emotions. This is what I came up with for angry, calm, sad, and happy.

This is the second part of the  project due and again using different mediums we were asked to draw lines that repressented four different verbs. This is what I came up with for fast, slow, scream, and meander.

For the third part of the project we were asked to draw 1 contour, 1 blind contour, 2 gestures (1 wet and 1 dry).

For the fourth part of this project we were asked to draw four different images with the lines expressing volume.

This project was difficult for me in that the feeling of art was not flowing through me. I am the type of person that cannot draw well if the feeling isn't there.

Headshot



I have very few pictures of myself and they are mostly of me and my daughter. This picture is four years old and is a good explanation of myself.  I am a Mom which can tend to take over your identity. I am very demanding of myself and people around me. In general I have the tendency of thinking that if you don’t giving 110% in what you are doing you are not trying. I am somewhat of a perfectionist which seems to be a family trait. I like to pick and joke around as a way of getting away from my high expectations of myself.  This image shows how proud I am to be a Mom and that I would do anything to protect this child. I do not like getting my picture taken and try not to look at the camera. I am a huge fan of, “do-it-yourself,” type of things and, “working with what you have.” For example I did the electrical wiring in my house, sheet rocking, and many other things. I just go get books or go on the internet, read up on it and see if I can do it. The work with what you have thing for example, there is a loft in my daughter's room and for the railing I went outside cut down some small trees and maid the railing out of trees instead of buying them. I love to create with my hands and get great pleasure from working with wood and in the dirt. Gardening is a great release for me and helps me to relax and recharge.
In this image I think the focal point is my smile then it shifts you to what I am looking at. The image has good balance even with the top of my head going off the top left there is more weight on the bottom right to off set that. There is also rhythm in the snow behind us.

An image of the railing in my daughter's room. 

RHYTHM

This week’s lesson is about rhythm. We needed to use a photograph that represented one of the five senses and we needed to choose four words that had to do with that sense. I chose taste and the four words I used were: sour, sweet, spicy, and mild.  Finally, we needed to design a fifth image that was inspired by the sense chosen. This project was a bit more difficult to do than I thought it would be. Using Adobe Photoshop I used filters to manipulate the image of a mouth. After going through the filters many times this is what I came up with.

BALANCE

Here is a picture of what I was working with for this project. It was difficult trying to see the balance for this in black and white making it hard not pay any attention to the colors. 

This is the work in black with a white background which I did in Photoshop. This was the first part of this project and then the second part we needed to make a separate balance piece with the background from this one.

This is the second part of our project and it was quite fun. Taking the white background from the first part of the project and arranged the pieces on a black background. This took quite some time and trying to figure out how to use these left over pieces to make an image of balance.

SCALE

This collaged I created in Photoshop with images of my own. I made it will five separate images. The base layer is the flower which is in my flower garden. The birds are from three different pictures I took this winter and the statue of the Mom and child is in my garden. This was great fun creating this and manipulating the scale.

I tried several images in this collage... bench, bird house, other statues but I thinned it down to this.

EMPHASIS AND FOCAL POINT

Contrast

http://fineartamerica.com/contests/color-isolation.html

I chose this image because the focal point achieves emphasis with the contrast of color. The contrast of the two colored leave in this pile of black and whites creates a focal point. I love working with an image like this by changing it to black and white then bring back out the color of something in the image so it stands out.

Isolation
http://www.stevenmarton.com/art-2
I choose this art piece because the figure in the further right is the focal point and is in a state of isolation. The isolation seems to feel much larger then the room he is in. The focal point is off to the side seperate from things in the room. Even though there is a large window in this piece my eye goes right to the figure.

Placement

http://dzineblog.com/2010/05/feature-designer-fantastic-art-works-by-jeannette-woitzik.html

I love this piece! When I first looked at it I just thought it was a bunch of mushrooms and then I enlarged it and saw the widows, door, ladder, etc. When opening this image I thought the focal point was the larger mushrooms but after enlarging it I saw that the lighting at the door of the mushroom house is the focal point right where the large mushrooms are joined together.

One Element
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/superxofficial
This image is my choose for One Element because of the red painted "A" that over laps the "O" in the neon sign. It is visually strong and it is related to the other elements being that they are letters.

Absence of Focal Point

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/6-abstract-art-hema-rana.html

I choose this piece for my Absence of Focal Point because there isn't one. It is a very nice piece of art and the artist uses similar colors, shapes and texture through out the whole piece.

UNITY

Proximity

http://uniqueannick.com/tag/artwork/

In this piece of art work you can clearly see the elements are close together creating proximity. If you go to the link above you will also see a closer image of this work. It has great texture and uses many different materials.



 

Repetition Similarity



http://fineartamerica.com/featured/repetition-joe-bonita.html

This art work clearly shows repetition with an emphasis on similarities. It uses a similar line repeatedly just at a slightly different angle.

Repetition Variety

http://3rdhouseparty.typepad.com/blog/2009/01/repetition.html

I love this one! It shows repetition with the mirrows and variety with the different size and colors of mirrors. The background is made from pasted new print which also brings a relative nature to the background and also makes the colored mirrors pop. I would really like to see this in person.

Continuation



http://colorburned.com/2008/05/colorful_experimental_glass_te.html

I choose this one for continuation because of how each color continues the last colors line. I like how these colors swirl with each other and also give a feel of texture.

Grid

http://www.malice-aforethought.com/blog/?p=444

This piece I choose for grid because you can clearly see this piece was base on it. Even though this piece looks simple I can not image the time that was put into setting up the grid for this. The grid on this piece goes in at least four different directions and was done exact.

Chaotic



http://www.dailyartfixx.com/2010/08/25/tom-shannon-pendulum-paintings/

This piece is chaotic to me being that there is so much going on that no one part of it sands out more than an other. It is very interesting how the artist created this piece and you can read about it on the site about.

Non-objective



http://mw-mw.com/8.html
This piece shows no recognizable subject matter. The lines and colors are great and show no indication of a subject.

Figurative

http://www.theglassmagazine.com/forum/blog_post.asp?tid=1169

This piece clearly shows a  recognizable figure of a woman. This piece was done with charcoal on paper and has great value and shading.