Final Project

I am making a large sized textured piece that is consumed with sticks, rocks, dirt, paint, and photographs. This textured piece will first be consumed with a layer of images of natural things on our planet such a wood, grass, trees, and dirt. Then I will add paint using colors that depict their realistic colors to the black and white photos. I will have the photographed images become apart of a 3d piece by corresponding the photographs with my gathered objects.

The nature relates to the photographs, which depicts my major and my specific area of concentration, nature photography. My idea of art is self- expression. I enjoy creating a piece that corresponds to my characteristics. In this piece it represents my inspiration for photography, which is nature. I also enjoy creating a unique way executing; this gives me ownership of my art.

When researching artist after I came up with my idea the closest artist that could relate with my project is Anslem Kiefer. Kiefer was a German painter and sculpture that was ranked the most successful German artists after World War II. His works are dull and musty looking and have a depressive and destructive style. “In most of his works, the use of photography as an output surface is prevalent and earth and other raw materials of nature are often incorporated.” His works are executed on large format scale.

Color Interaction

The color interation project was a good exercise on changing the perception of how a color looks. I was able to accomplish this change of perception by focusing on three aspects; value, color/subtraction, and compliments.

The seven pieces varied from being very challenging to easy to work with. For instance problem 3 was my biggest chalenge, it took me the longest to achieve getting the two colors in the middle to look alike. Problem 4 was the easiest challenge, where I simply focused on getting two color that constrasted with each other and are each others compliment. This however strained my eyes the most where I learned that by stairing at the small black dot in the middle for 30 seconds burns your retna. When you look at a white sheet of paper with a small black dot after the 30 seconds you will then see the outlining and color variation of your original piece.

I had no idea on the different ways of changing colors that tricks the human eye. I gained a deeper understanding of changing color perception, this is first step of mastering optical illusions. The Bezold effect is the perfect example that i worked on that creates an optical illusion. It was named after Wihelm von Bezold, a German proffesor of meterolog (Wikipedia).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezold_Effect

Painting Reflective Object

I choose to paint the top of a pan considering that it was the best reflected object in my apartment. I enjoyed this project the most out of all the painting we have done this year. This was a fun challenging assignment that was based off preciseness. I further enjoyed the fact that we where to incorporate a still life object and then paint it's reflections. This assignment had more depth and learning to it.

I once did a project slightly similar to this my junior year in high school when I had to draw the reflections of a glass cup. We drew with a white colored pencil on a brown 8 X 10 sheet of construction paper. Both of these projects have one thing in common and that is focusing on light. In these two types of of objects, the top of pan and glass cup, light is reflected upon them where the piece for a still life becomes a lot more complex to draw. Practicing to draw still life's with reflected objects trains your eye to see the detailed imagery that light makes up in its reflections.

After completing this project I took with me the practices of drawing a proportional object, studying the light that is reflected upon its surface and technic when applying the different types of grays. The grey project was very fulfilling where a was able to get a lot of it, even though it was time consuming I did not mine because the outcome was interesting.

Grey

Mixing colors to get grey I believed only involved using whit and black. I was proved wrong when my first attempt to make grey was from the use of primary colors, the outcome was successful. Mixing the colors to get grey takes patience and accuracy. After mixing the colors and the applying it to the bristol the outcome was majority of the time a bit off then what was expected. This was not necessarily such a let down, it allowed me to gain a step closer to getting to the color grey by seeing what more of a color I needed to apply.

Throughout the process of mixing the colors I noticed that you where able to get closer to grey when you add white or you where able to notice what complimentary color you needed. When mixing my colors in compelled to receive the color grey I realized that the more I time I spent making the colors the more I thought it was easier to get grey. I was proved wrong on my last trial when I mixed Phthalocyann Blue with Raw Siena Trying to get a grey out of these two colors seemed to be impossible not matter how much white I added and its complementary color I added.

Making the Grey was a good experience since I have now learned that you don't only need black and white to make the color. I also found that you can have a variety of different types of grays depending on how much of the a complimentary color you apply. For instance when I thought I finally got my grey and then made another one, comparing the two next to each other they looked like two completely different colors but when singling them out they both looked grey.

9 thumbnail - Facts about Yellow

The history of yellow goes into depth I will first begin with yellow sybolizing sunshine it is also a warm color that, like red. On the one hand it denotes happiness and joy but on the other hand yellow is the color of cowardice and deceit. Since yellow is very vibrant it is usaully used for hazordous signs and emergency veicles.

Yellow, most of the time works best as a compliment to other colors. You can use yellow for bright excitement and for the use of contrast. Yellow, unlike red and orange may be too strong or too dark. In astronomy the planet Saturn is yellowish, which is a class G star just like our sun. In calandars Monday is associated with yellow on the Thai solar calendar. Anyone born on a monday may adopt yellow as their color.

In cultures such as the enlish language yellow is associated with jaundice or cowardice. A coward in the American slag is reffereded as "yellowbellied". In Italy yellow represents crime stories from fictional and real stories. In 1930 the first series of crime novels was published with the book cover being yellow. Ethnicaly Asian people are sometimes known as the yellow race. Reffering to people of East Asia as the yellow race is now days offensive. In African- American slang "high yellow" is reffered to someone who is a very light-skinned African- American. This term was herd often in the 20th century but is now rarely herd these days. The color yellow has two different types of symbolisms one being of excitement and perkiness and the other of cowardness and crime.

9 Thumbnails

The 9 thumbnails assignment had the most rewarding outcome. Since we previously had two projects that dealt with color I was more confident in mixing colors and applying them to the illustration board. I enjoyed the fact that we where to choose our own composition. This allowed us to create a unique piece that had a consistent fluent outcome.

This project involved lots of preciseness which made the work very tedious. When beginning the piece I felt a bit annoyed because of the tediousness although once I gave it 10 minutes of working I got used to it and enjoyed the painting. The painting was time consuming but relaxing.

I enjoyed the colors I produced because of the various tints I applied that gave the piece a more variety of color. The colors are different in this project because I was used to mixing by now and was able to create more unique colors and involving more tints. Yellow, which is my hue color is the only common color found in every box which unites the entire piece together. If I did not have the same hue color found in every 9 boxes than my outcome would look like a bunch of random colors and the piece would not be as strong.

Scale

The scale was more sophisticated and had more specific direction. I am glad I used my primary color as yellow. The yellow gave me contrast and its outcome gradually appeared as earth tones. It was frustrating in having to complete 27 rectangles of color at the time but when finishing I observed that it is better in having more color varies, in order to show the tones and tints compared with one another.

I have learned the differences you get with the use of one color when using the Monochrome method, which is the most enjoyable so far. I like this because I have fun with trying to be as precise as possible when controlling my tints, shades, and tones.

I know after reducing the analogous column it will appear to have the most color variation considering that I am able to select four different types of colors outside the color wheel. This will help me expand color use and see it compared to the primary color I used being yellow.

Color Wheel

The color wheel allowed me to see color change as a whole. I used primary colors that radiantly changed morphing into its neighbor. I enjoy using these paints because of the richness of and vibrant of the color and its thickness allowed me to apply the paint smoothly.

Making the color wheel was relaxing rather than tedious. I only got frustrated when the paint began to dry while I was still trying to apply more color. It reminded me of painting nails, if you add to many coats when the first to coats are starting to dry than the out come starts to look rough and or bumpy.

I enjoyed this assignment because I think it is important to learn the mixing of paints because painting is a hobby of mine. Understanding the various outcomes of colors you get from three primary colors and the use of applying tint shade and tone is fascinating.

Color

The photo of the Spider-Man and My Little Pony snack boxes are two great examples of using colors to advertise. The images are taken together to compare and contrast the two flamboyant colors. The boxes are similar in the way of trying to sell to the same age group from ages 6-12 with the use of blue for boys and pink for girls. This is a smart was of advertising to a little kid where they are even more susceptible to buying a product thats just based off its color. The representation of dark blue and red would make a boy feel more boyish and the pink and light yellow would make a girl feel more girlie. The advertiser is selling to a particular age group, children, where then its the child's job to sell to their parent. The colors are very saturated and lively making it an eye catcher.

The photo that represents chemicals is very much a contradiction to its point. Looking at the vibrant colors it appears to symbolize fun and a spontaneous attitude. The colors are elementary like and do not come close to representing toxic chemicals that are deadly. The bright colors do catch and appeal to the eye although it miss leads on what it stands for. When bright fun colors stand for toxic colors it can be very misleading especially for young kids and therefor be dangerous.