It's value....again!

Sincerely I am sick of making these value scales! I've been doing them since my first art class in the 8th grade and if someone told you they get easier as you keep making them...they lied! When I was starting to draw my value scale I thought "hey! easy as pie, done it before" but after I drew my shape and started to bet busy I noticed how out of shape I was. When I started to make my composition it was a hell lot of more fun and of course I was more loose and was able to play around with my values. And here are my results!

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I tried to look for the definition of pattern on google but to my surprise I only found crappy definitions such as " a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc." This may be true, a pattern is a decorative design but I'm surprised the dictionary site didn't have a more artistic definition to it? I don't know I just felt like their definition was weak.
I had the opportunity to do this project twice, not that fun. The first time it was actually on time, but to my avail I didn't save it right on my usb port. Meaning I had to do it again. The second time it was a whole lot easier because I had a little bit more experience with the program (illustrator) and of course I was finally paying attention to instructions which I didn't do much before. It was a fdun project, even though it was a little tricky and tedious.

Positive and Negatives...Gestalt too.

I was browsing around and I found a picture of what is known as Gestalt. It is a woman overall but if you look closer two of them can be seen. At a simple glance you'll see an old woman (an old hag if you please) and if you can focus a little bit more you'll see a young woman about to turn, all in the same image, pretty cool huh? Its all a psychological game, it's how two shapes can be hidden in one. These were given to us when we were kids. So I'm familiar with it.

Mirrors

Standing in the freezing cold, holding a pink mirror, I observed my facial imperfections and in a corner I could see Ian's face smiling at me. I smiled back and continued to move forward sticking my tongue out and making retarded faces misshaping my face. I couldn't help but think of my childhood when my friends and I would sit around in each other's mom's cars making these same faces and laughing. I thought of my family. My dad used to make faces all the time, when we were driving or just talking about stuff, my dad was a clown like that. This all made me even more homesick that I already am. I felt happy being silly like that and having someone doing the same thing to me. It made me feel accompanied, less alone, as in sharing a moment with someone. But thinking about it now, thank god this only lasted a minute or so. Cause this too reminded me of times when my older brother would make me feel stupid or immature about saying some things, he would make that face imitating me. This kind of ruined the experience for me, it turned a little annoying. But overall I enjoyed it. It brought back memories.

Lines and Shapes

Which of the images a,b,c, or d are lines?

-I think a, b and d are lines.

Which of the images a,b,c, or d are shapes?

-C is a shape.

What makes a line?

-A pencil or a pen or whatever tool you want to use and its done when you put its down on paper and draws without picking up the tool.


What makes a shape?

-A shape is made when lines connect and trap space.

critique assignment.

On the first image I chose, I see a naked woman holding roses accompanied by two other ladies in the picture. There is an imaginary triangle connecting all of them. The naked woman is the one closest to the expectator so it seems she's the most important in the picture. There are two other two women, one slightly bigger than the other. The smallest one is kneeling and she's not even showing her face, yet she's looking for something, maybe something the main woman needs. To her right is a woman bigger than her but not bigger than the main woman inthe picture, she seems to be asking the servant for something the naked woman needs. The painting has a very classical look the kind hanging in a lot of museums. It gives a feeling of what perfection should "look like".

This painting doesn't attract much of my attention, it's like I've seen it a million times before and sincerely it bores me a bit. I do find it curious that the servant girl seems to be considered so low she's not even allowed to show her frontside.

The second painting I chose seems to have a certain kind of "not-really-in-order" order ...I dont think that makes sense. I see a white background with a lot of black squares in different sizes, they kind of are in a row. In the upper side of the painting I see smaller squares that due to their different sizes suggest a little bit of a 3-d effect. In the lower middle part of the painting there are bigger squares and a bit more rectangular. In the bottom of the painting there are some colorful squares kind of breaking the pattern of white and black. This painting seeems to be shapping something with the squares and it suggests a breaking the pattern kind of theme. It makes my eyes travel a bit and try and find out it the squares really are shaping something.

I don't like it that much but I do like break of pattern going on in the bottom of the painting. But thinking about it it's almost like music, like beats breaking from a small pattern to a louder more aggresive one maybe unto a colorful cheery one.