Week 10 Pattern and Texture

Here is my 15 patterns and textures sampler and my 11 shade grayscale. I used different fabrics with patterns and textures, jeans, my cats fur, food, and scratching post, a cleaning cloth, my ceiling, couch, feathers, and some different blankets.

15 Patterns and Textures

11 Shades Grayscale

Week 9 Shape and Volume

For my shape and volume assignment I chose to use one of my kitchen chairs and a stool. I placed the stool in front of the chair on the left side and took pictures of it at different angles. These are the three angles that I liked the most.

Week 8 Line

For this assignment I decided to do both traditional and digital media. I did the dry media drawings traditionally and the wet media drawings digitally. For dry media I used a 4B graphite pencil and a charcoal stick.

For dry media I chose happy, sad, angry, and love for my emotions. For happy and love I used a pencil, and for sad and angry I used charcoal.

For wet media I used balance, stitch, drip, and repeat for my verbs. I choose an ink brush and an air brush.

For my second dry media I drew a cat bank that I have in my room. For contour and gesture I used a pencil, and for blind contour and gesture I used charcoal.

For my dry and wet media volume drawings I used a pencil and charcoal. For the air brush and ink volume drawings I used my tablet to draw them. I'm not very good at drawing with it yet.

Week 6 Rhythm

I chose the sense of touch for my assignment and I chose soft, rough, cold, and hot. I took a photo of a stuffed rabbit to represent touch. For soft I used a filter to make the photo look softer, and I did the same thing for rough. For cold I changed the color of the photo to blue and made it look like it was snowing. For hot I changed the color of the photo to orange and yellow and I made flames at the bottom of the photo.  For my fifth design I chose alternating rhythm and I repeated my soft, rough, cold, and hot photos and I only used black and white values.

This is the original photo

Soft

  

 Rough

 Hot

Cold

Alternating Rhythm

Week 5 Balance

Here are my balance compositions for this week. I took photos of eight different things I found in my kitchen and put them together in Photoshop. I used a knife, spoon, fork, measuring spoon, cup (I duplicated it so I would have two), spatula, plate and a slotted spoon. I hope that I did all of these right. The first one is the silhouette of the objects. The second one is the negative space between the objects, and the third one is the negative shapes combined in an interesting way.

Here is the silhouette of the objects composition.

Here is the negative space of the objects composition.

Here is the negative space shapes composition.

Week 4 Scale and Proportion

I chose to make a collage with my cat Crystal. The big picture of her is the size she is now. I took a photo of her when she was a kitten and cut her out of the photo and pasted it in the bigger picture. I scaled her down to the size that a cat toy might be. Then I took another image that had a couple of her toy mice in it and cut them out and pasted them into the picture and scaled them up and made them a lot bigger than they should be. The focal point of the collage is the little Crystal sleeping on top of herself. I think that the mice in the front may get your attention first and then you follow Crystal's paws up to her face. Then you follow her eyes to the kitten version of herself sleeping. Small kitten Crystal is also bright and I think that it helps draw your eyes towards her more.

Kristina Willette, My Cat Collage

Week 3 Emphasis and Focal Point

Contrast

Contrast is when an element in a design or piece of artwork differs from the other elements. I used a photo of my cat that I had taken in my photography class as an example. I made the whole photo black and white except for her eye. Crystal's yellow eye contrasts from the black and white background. The focal point is her eye because it is the only thing that has color in the entire photo and you see it right away.

Kristina Willette, My Cat Crystal

Kristina Willette, My Cat Crystal

One Element

One element is when you use a strong visual emphasis on one element which makes it stand out over everything else. This example is a painting by Yoshimoto Nara and its called Acid Rain. The girl stands out against the dark background and you see her first before you see the colors in the background and that she is standing in water or in something else. The focal point is the girl because she is the focus of the painting.

Yoshimoto Nara, Acid Rain

http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/artists_en/nara_en/

Yoshimoto Nara, Acid Rain

http://www.tomiokoyamagallery.com/artists_en/nara_en/

Placement

Placement is when several elements in a design or piece of artwork all point to one area or item. This example is a digital artwork done by Shu Mizoguchi and its called Axia. The lines in her dress all point towards the light coming from the violin. Her head is bent down looking towards the violin and light and her arm holding the bow also points at the white light. The focal point in this piece is the white light coming from the violin.

Shu Mizoguchi, Axia

http://shu-littlebit.com/

Shu Mizoguchi, Axia

http://shu-littlebit.com/

Isolation

Isolation is when one element in a design or piece of artwork is off by itself while all the other elements are close together. I had made this example for another class. I made one star all by itself while the rest of the stars are close together. The one star by itself stands out as the focal point because it is separated from the rest of the stars in the image.

Kristina Willette, Emphasis on Isolation

Kristina Willette, Emphasis on Isolation

Absence of Focal Point

Absence of focal point is when there is no clear focal point in a design or a piece of artwork and you see the entire image and your eyes do not focus on one point. This example is a painting done by Shiraga Kazuo and it's called Soryu no Mai. This painting has no clear focal point because paint was just splattered onto the canvas and he had painted the strokes of paint with his feet. The strokes of paint make your eyes wander all over the canvas and they do not stop at one point.

Shiraga Kazuo, Soryu no Mai 1994

http://www.mccaffreyfineart.com/artists/shiraga_works.html