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