Week 5 - Balance

I normally like to do things in Photoshop but this looked like too much fun not to do it with construction paper and years of accumulated items in my kitchen.
In my first composition I found the hardest part was getting the items to not move while I was tracing. They aren't called rolling pins for nothing.

 

 Composition Balance 1

I found it easier to design the black shapes on the white background than the kitchen objects on the black paper. On the first composition, because the final design was to be silhouettes it was harder to see the overall design without the interference of the colors of the items I was tracing. Also the 3 dimensions of the objects added an element of interest that didn't transfer in the tracing. When creating the second composition, what I was working with was the final design which I found easier.

Composition Balance 2

Scale Assignment

I chose to toys and items in reality that they often represent for the subject matter in my assignment of scale.I call this Babes in Warland

Emphasis Assignment

I found all of these examples online in google search of images. The focal points are circled in red.

The use of emphasis for a focal point


 




One element as the focal point example: The single lime green element in this composition directs the eye to the head of the lego object.


Edvard Munch's "The Scream" 
LEGO'd by Joel Grannas









No focal point example: The repetition of similar human faces wearing the same color clothing and hair leaves this artwork with no focal point.

Repetiiton from the website www.stealthstuff.com



 


Isolation as the focal point example: The larger blue figure set apart from the rest of the blue figures, drawing the eye to that area of the artwork first.

Cover art for the CD The Outsider by Donna Williams.




 

Placement as the focal point example: The central figures co-create a focal point as the eye travels from the woman dressed in black and white around to the black and white dog and to the children, first the one on the black and white dog, then to the other child. The flow is aided by the placement of arms and eye gazes of the subjects.

by Renoir


 


Contrast as the focal point example: The focal point here is the girl, a soft, warm (animal) subject against the course and cold (mineral) objects of furniture and architecture.

By Bryan Larsen

Week 2 - Unity Assignment

Example of a grid to create unity in art:

 

This painting on fabric uses a grid for continuity. It implies the single view out a window with the panes creating a feeling of connection between the left- and right- side orange patches that represent the leaves. The frames around the panes are a common factory between the leafless and leafed tree limbs. It think If I were to improve on this, I would add at least one more patch of orange in one of the top right panes to create a stronger path for the eye to flow around the window panes

Grid by Chandel  Design


Examples of Unity:

An example of unity through proximity:

 

These swans are in such close proximity that the path of the eye is contained within the flow of the shape of the bodies.
Hansa Unity by Cherie Glasco





An example of repetition with emphasis on similarity:

 


This photograph of the Wortham Center in Houston, Texas  is an example in architecture of repetition with an emphasis on similarity. The theme of repetition is not only in the pillars along the hallway, but in the design on the floor.
Photograph off of Flickr by 42leaves






 An example of repetition with emphasis on variety:

 

There is a repetition of Marilyn's face, but variety in how each image is treated
Marilyn by Andy Warhol 

 

 










An example of unity through continuity:

 


The flow of outstretched arms and legs keeps the eye moving along the line of women.
Unity by Monica Stewart








An example of a grid as an organizing factor:

 


This geometric arrangement of various creations of the same color range and similar patterns is organized by an imaginary grid.
Mixed media  poster by Robyn  Gordon







An example of a chaotic unreadable image:

 

The repetition of similar shapes gives this unity, but there is no discernable image to be perceived in the arrangement.
by Paula Phelps




An example of non-objective expression of unity:

 

Even though there is no distinct object, these patterns of color and light create unity by  repeated patterns of color. I find this beautiful and conjures up the idea of peacock feathers.
Abstract Design pop art by Giovanni Rubaltelli














An example of  figurative expression of unity:

 


There is unity with the repetition of women's bodies, with lines of the bodies flowing from one the other, creating one single unified figure.

 The Three Graces Variety, a marble sculpture by Antonio Canova