For this project I
choose to capture images of my own artwork and I will explain how
they all show the Elements of Design. It will be interesting to
analyze my own work in this manner as I never have before. Please
note, the images are of my own artwork and MAY NOT BE reproduced IN
ANY MANNER without my permission!! It is actually fully against the
law. The pictures of the charcoal, pencil, colored pencil of
elephants are also covered by the publisher as copyrighted works.
They are all drafts, some more complete than others. I do have
permission from the publisher and a mutual understanding that I own
the works of art and can do with them as I wish. (sell them or use
them for this project for instance) Those works are my personal works
and the publishers so please respect that.
The Elements and Principles of Design:
The things with which an artist works with to create a composition.
The Elements are:
Lines; which can be curved or straight, thick or thin, vertical, horizontal, oblique. They can unify things or show separation. Oblique lines show movement and can convey feelings, so can a curved horizontal or vertical line. Artist's utilize how the brain follows lines in their favor to convey what they are trying to present to the observer.
Lines; which can be curved or straight, thick or thin, vertical, horizontal, oblique. They can unify things or show separation. Oblique lines show movement and can convey feelings, so can a curved horizontal or vertical line. Artist's utilize how the brain follows lines in their favor to convey what they are trying to present to the observer.
Shapes; they are categorized as Naturalistic which uses the maximum amount of contrast and are emotionally active, aesthetically dynamic, spatially in depth or as geometric using minimal contrast. They are emotionally passive, aesthetically decorative and spatially static.
The Golden Mean Rectangle is used to make geometric shapes less constrictive. To do so one would, draw a square, use the diagonal of half the square as a radius then rotate this radius to the base line, and lastly extend the rectangle to the point where the arc meets the baseline.
Space and size use the Golden Mean Rectangle, Perspective, and sizes such as small, medium, large ect. are used with space to create differing effects, meanings and feelings just in real life how space and the size of it can do such.
Value which has to do with the lightness or darkness of tones and colors.
Colors dictated by the color wheel, chroma and value.
Textures such as rough, smooth, soft, hard ect.
below is the link to my blogger site. I do have to say that I highly recommend the use of google photos in the next semesters. Photobucket is filled with adware and spam, since the use of google for blogger is already used it would make full sense to use google photos.
http://s1126.photobucket.com/user/robinalexix/library/Elements%20of%20Principal%20of%20Design?sort=3&page=1
I love that you've has chosen to use all of your own artwork to showcase the Visual Elements of Art and the Principles of Design. It not only gave you a chance to 'self-analyze', it also gives the rest of us a glimpse of your unique artistic style. I agree that Photobucket has way too many ads, but it is my understanding that if you upgrade to a paid account the ads disappear. There are 21 images in your slide show, we only needed to showcase the 7 Visual Elements of Art and 7 Principles of Design, and some were duplicates. None were labeled with which 'Element' or 'Principle' they are meant to represent. I was just confused because oftentimes an image can represent more than one 'Element' or 'Principle'. An easy remedy would be to just go back to Photobucket, delete extra image copies, and add titles for clarification. I am confident that you understand the different 'Elements' and 'Principles' from what I read in your reflection journal, and it's so nice to see you use your work as examples! Great job Robin!
ReplyDeletethank you for the critical constructive criticism I do actually really appreciate it. I had a lot of issues using photo bucket and wish we could have just used google photos instead. I am a computer tech and I am not sure if it is just because I use linux and not windows or not but the site had so much malware. I couldn't honestly figure out how to add the titles! I will go back and try to again. Thank you for your honesty it means a lot to me! My book I am illustrating has been released for presale on a side note which is super exciting. My artwork is nowhere near as good as yours but I am excited that the publisher loves my illustrations and that other have starte to pre order the book :]
DeleteI really enjoyed your artwork and liked the fact that you used your own artwork to capture all of the elements and principles. I was not sure if you used some images to represent multiple elements and principles. Overall I thought your project was great. You did a really good job at picking your images to what I thought represented each. You did a great job at bringing out your style in this project.
ReplyDeleteAgain I do agree with what you said and I need to go back and try again to add titles. I do know that my works of art show a multitude of elements and principles in each one. I just really need to go back on my Mac computer instead of linux and try again to add the titles!
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