Thursday, February 28, 2008

Color wheel and value scales

The color wheel and the value scales that we produced were similar to the ones i did in highschool. I found the color mixing valuable. The value scales were slightly different that the ones i was used to. I found that the complements and the alaogous were more chalenging because i had never been introduced to them in this way. Color mixing is valuable because it shows you how colors contrast eachother in the steps of the color wheel. Value scales show us the importance of tints and shades in color to create different values in sequencial order.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Today in class Cristopher, Sharon, Paulett and I painted eachother. Cris was monochrome, Sharon and Paulett were complements and i was alaogous. This experimental activity was great. I enjoyed the interactivity of it. The calaboration of the tasks and the planing was valuable. I found this to be effective and in context with the assignment.
I was painted first... then i helped paint and take pictures of everyone else..

Thursday, February 7, 2008



This image reminds me of toy blocks. the simple arangements of the three primary colors makes me think about all the colors in between. This simple arangment reminds me of parades and celebrations.
The blue in this image is on the left followed by the red then the yellow. this arrangment is like a rainbow.
it reminds me of a multi collored hat or umbrella.
Overall i think this image gives off a scence of happyness and youth.


This second image is mostly blue with two characters on the right holding on to what seems to be a tree of some kind. I feel like this is an under water scene. This image is suposed to represent peace and harmoney.
The shapes on the right show a kind of symetry that adds to the rythem of the whole piece. Following the tree down to the people then to the organic lines creates good composition.
Socially i think this piece promotes peace and harmoney through the use of soft friendly colors.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

conceptual project

This activity we did in class was interesting. I found that there could be any combination of shapes. The little thumbnails that we picked will never be picked in the same order therefore the pattern will always vary no matter how many times we repeat the activity. This reminds me of little games such as dots that children play. I thought this activity was intricate and well thought out.

my performance proposal

To perform my proposal get three or four of your friends and stand together in a circle then close your eyes. The idea is to reach out in front and to either side of you and try to guess what material they're wearing.

My proposal was not very complicated. It was rather simple and straight forward. I think it would have worked out better if i found people who had a bigger variety of clothing.

Be very careful when you are reaching out to the people around you not to grab any offensive arias.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

This activity was fun. It was interesting and unique. Pat has some pretty fun ideas, the string activity and now this. This activity was fun because it allowed us to be free. We could make whatever face we wanted. What was interesting about this activity was that even though we were facing back to back we could use the mirrors to see each others funny faces. The mirrors made this assignment really cool. The further you got from your partner the smaller their face got. The fact that we had to make funny faces was really cool. When we were close the face in the mirror looked funny but the further away and smaller the image got in your own mirror the funnier it got. Pat was my partner. She mimicked every face that i made. It got really hard to keep a straight face the smaller and smaller the image of Pat got in my mirror. Trying to make funny faces when an increasingly smaller image of the same funny faces that you are making is really hard.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

the bride???????


well here we see the bride... this piece has no actual representation of a bride. i cannot see the bride. i think thats really stupid. stupid because it does not make sense. if the title is the bride shouldn't you be able to tell that there is some kind of representation of a bride? you don't really need characters to convey subject matter but it defiantly helps. the shapes are really random and they don't have a continuous theme.
even though this piece does not make any literal sense it is very figurative. the shapes in the upper left symbolize the bride. the cloud and the empty space leaves room for you to think about what else should be there.
i think overall this piece is "OK" in my opinion it's really not that good because you get no impression of what it means or what it's about. there is no subject matter at all. I'm not saying that you need subject matter to convey your ideas but a little subject matter would make this piece better i think, because you would not have to sit here and try to figure out what the piece is about.