Reflecting on Four Hour Project

For my four hour project was making 3D shapes and use leading lines and movement. The first half of it is in black and white and the other half is in color. I wanted to show the contrast between black and white and color. I have really enjoyed doing this project because it gives me the freedom to do whatever I want. But it is also hard because there are so many opportunity to do many differnet things. My process was going in my sketch book and decided what to do. Then I just went for it and started my project. It is taking a longer than I thought and I decided to take it home in order to finish it. Overall, this project is really fun and I can't wait for Art Principles next term.

The Book Project...progress and planning.

For my story I am having two brothers. Eventually, one brother wants the other to be a monk, but the brother wants to be a photographer. One day the inspiring photographer brother see's a van with the name of his favorite photo magazine. He starts to chase them but then they drive away and he has to become a monk. I think it is going pretty well, somethings that might turn out to be hard are trying to change the happy theme to an anger theme in one of the photos, and also trying to be able to change the body structure of one of the characters. Nothing has changed so far in my planning other than the placement of some of the characters.

Drawing the Human Figure from the Inside Out.

Today's goals were to think about proportion when drawing someone. You also want to draw from the perspective that you are at and not what your mind tells you. I thought that today, this activity was challenging and interesting. It really made the drawings much easier when you kept going and didn't stop to take a moment and think about it. I think on my first picture I was just starting to work on the perspective thing, but the second one I really got it. Overall, I like drawing people more than I have before.

Shades of Gray

Today in class, I really liked this drawing activity. I liked it a lot because we got to use many different drawing utensils. I really liked how we got to use the different type of charcoal. Overall, I was not so much satisfied but not mad at my work. I think that the proportions of my picture don't make much sense. Overall, I also liked working with the background and then you got to erase. Also, it was MUCH easier to erase on the different paper. I hope we do this again!!

Studying Nighthawks...

1)
Night Hawks by Edward Hopper
America
1942
Oil on Canvas





2) I feel as if I have seen this painting before and that it is just a painting of a common scene. I am drawn to the bright white wall paper in the diner place.

3) Edward Hopper is a man who was born in Manhattan, New York. He started to paint right after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This painting is painted to show the urban life in night time. It also shows how lonely the open streets and urban life can be.

4) Hopper uses many Principles of Design, one thing he uses is contrast. There is contrast because of the brightness of the white wall in the diner and with the dark outside of the diner. Another thing that Nighthawks uses is emphasis. Even though the diner is not right in the middle of the picture, it still catches the eye of the viewer.

Finding Images that are balanced

The Japanese Bridge by Claude Monet

Something that makes this painting balanced is the symmetry with the reflection of the bridge and bright colors.
"Tête de Femme" by Pablo Picasso
This picture is balanced because of the amount of almost symmetry.

Mount Sainte-Victoire- Paul Cezanne

This picture is balanced because the trees and hills are all so wide spread it just causes you to look at every part of the picture.

Starry Night- Vincent Van Gogh

This picture is balanced because all of the stars flow together creating a balanced look.

The Principles of Design

The Principles of Design- are rules; which help artists organize shapes, lines, forms, and colors to communicate effectively. Also to create a sense of unity in the piece of art.
Balance- when the visual "weight" of an artwork feels equally distributed.
4 Types of Balance- Symmetry (same as it is on the right and left), approximately symmetrical (almost symmetrical), asymmetry (opposite of symmetrical), radial (the same if you divide it anyway).
Emphasis- When one element in an artwork appears to be more important or attract the most attention. You can do it in 3 ways: Placement, Contrast (something is really different than what's around it e.g. color, shape, etc), and Grouping (when an artist decides to put a bunch of elements they want you to focus on).
Rhythm and Movement- how the artist guides the artist through a work of art. Artist do this in 5 ways, repetition (same elements, alternating elements, progression (element is repeated but changing, *makes the illusion that it has distance*), leading lines (lines in the picture that you travel through the painting aka a path), implied movement (when the artist create movement in the picture: body position, how things get affected by movement), optical movement (when you repeat a line or shape that create an illusion), and actual movement (when artist make things ACTUALLY move).
Proportion- we are talking about the size relationship of parts to one another or to the whole.
(Color, Shape, Form) You want it also to convey a story behind the art...think about how it looks and possibility to create a story or emotional component.
Unity- a feeling that everything in the picture works together somehow.
Variety- can happen by introducing differences into the picture to increase visual interest.