Value Drawing (redo)

Forgot to post this- oops.

Doing the value scale wasn't too difficult. I did a rough sketch before i did it on the good piece of paper. I found that the differences in how much harder you have to draw is very minimal. I did my value scale kind of horn-shaped, and I think I did it successfully because at each step of he value, you see that little line of light and dark because of the contrast. My value drawing was a mix of different squares overlapping eachother. On most of the intersections, the contrasting lines were present. I used 5 different values. If I could redo it I would think about positive and negative space more, because I was more concentrated on getting the values together than the full composition.

Gestalt

(from http://www.gestaltqueensland.org.au/gestalt_approach.htm)

Gestalt is a form of therapy/ psychology using positive and negative space. The patient is examined by which forms they see first and more clearly in the image. In the above image, the positive space forms a vase, while the negative space forms two faces. The positive and negative space both evoke a different image.

Value Drawing

Camera made it a little odd- but I used a really light shade so it's hard to show up.

Silly String

In class on Thursday we made this pretty cool string installation. It was defintately different than anything I've done in another class, but it was fun. I guess it was a mock Duchamp's string installation- though his looks a little more planned. All I can say is I wouldn't like to be the one to take his installation down. The one we did in class was hard enough to get untangled- but luckily mine wasn't too complicated except for the brief time I went into the Tangle-of-Death.

I've been having a little trouble with the 4 part geometric/organic line and shape assignment. Not that it's really that difficult, but I keep second guessing myself. I keep concentrating on shape and neg/pos space and wanting to keep unity and rhythm, and I guess focusing too much because I'm never happy with anything I've been producing. I've finally gotten something I guess I'll have to live with, I've never done anything like this before- I'm used to taking something already created and arranging it compositionally, not creating it from scratch.

Line > Shape

Line is never ending and has direction. It can be any width/height, and can be represented by any length. It can change thicknesses, overlap itself (like swirls) or change direction, but it is always constant.

Shape has a start and a finish, and is usually a complete object. Like a line that is connected at the tips so it has a start and finish, and usually has form and is solid.

Images A and B are lines. They both change thicknesses, and Image B changes direction also. They could be considered shapes (as most lines could) as outlined by shapes.

Images C and D are shapes but Image C could also be considered a line. Image D has no direction, and the thicknesses are too speratic to have it never ending or just be rapidly changing thicknesses. Image C could be considered a very thick line, or a basic shape. Image C is considered a line or shape based on the use and the belief of the viewer.

Analyze This

This piece has a mix of gray tones and vibrantly colored shapes. Most of the colored shapes have angled edges, while the majority of the grays are tranluscent circles mostly located on the right side of the piece. Some of the colored shapes border eachother, like they were connected. Also, some of the loose colored shapes have shadows (like the blue in the middle and red on white at the top left) but they are all different so there is no constant direction of light.

The mix of translucent circles resembles an expolusion or an orb bringing the other shapes towards it, and muttles the colored shapes around it. It is very chaotic, very destructive, and very busy. It suggests solid pieces of the vibrant color being blasted away into smaller pieces bring mixed through the air, but it's not scary or overwhelming becase of the happy colors, the stillness of the pieces, and the soft and harmless look of the translucent circles.

I like the piece. There is a lot to look at without being overwhelming, visual flow from the connected colors up to the translucent "explosion", good color variation, and overall nice visual appearance. But it's very distracting that the shadows do not line up together, and there is no constant light direction.