Implied Motion

This picture is an example of the concept of "illusion of motion" from chapter 11. More specifically, the section on "seeing and feeling impending action".



As you can imagine, the person pouring the wine, will pour until the glass is full. Our minds see the picture, and "anticipate the movement" of the wine from the bottle to the glass.

Emphasis and Focal Point

This is an example of a "Emphasis by placement". Because of where the circle is placed, our eyes move from the colored curved lines up to the top right corner of the page where the white circle is. The placement of the lines puts creates the focal point, the white circle.



This is an example of "emphasizing the whole over the parts". There could be hundreds of lines in this composition that overall make a huge design.

Group Project

-Our group project was omitted a little while after we as a class came up with an idea...

Emotive Lines

This is a photo of lines that i drew, that convey the feeling of being calm. They imitate the curves that can be seen (or rather imagined) as you watch waves hit the sand of a beach. Which is very calming.



This is an image of line that convey the feeling of being angry. They are red, zig-zag lines that i also drew. Although red is a beautiful passionate color, it is sometimes associated with anger. And zig-zagged lines, with their abrupt angle changes convey the feeling of anger or some sort of tension.

Line

This is an example of a line discussed in chapter 7, a vertical line.



This is an example of a line discussed in chapter 7, a diagonal line.

Different Color/Same Color

By making the background a gradient from orange to blue, it appears the gray stripe coming down the middle changes in value. When actually, the gray stripe is gray all the way through the image.

Faith Ringgold

Faith Ringgold was one of the artists featured at the Tubman Art Museum our class took a trip to a few weeks ago. Upon browsing her work, I chose this piece titled "Street Story Quilt #1, 2, 3" as a good example of an interesting way she used color.

The quilt is split into three sections, of three buildings with black people in the windows. The building on the left is more maroon, the building in the middle is really red, and the building to the right is more brown. It almost looks like the colors she chose for the buildings themselves illustrate sunrise in the building, then mid day, then evening time in the building. Imagining that those were her motives for using those colors its easier to create a narrative in your head about what is going on from left to right in the quilt.

Same Value/Different Value

By putting two objects of the same value on a gradient that goes from white to black, the two objects appear to have different value (one lighter and one darker).

Color

This video is called 'All Of The Lights' By Kanye West. This video usues so much color that, it has an epilepsy warning. The first minute and 15 seconds of the video are black and white, but by 1:15 the color flashes begin...

Money As Art

From the website suggested that featured money as artwork (http://weburbanist.com/2008/12/14/art-from-money/) 'the skyline silhouette money cutouts' were definitely my favorite.



I am partial to scenery, but i can appreciate the fine cuts they used to get the design of the skyline in the money. I am also taken away by the effect the pattern of the money creates on the 'building'.