Friday, December 4, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Foreground of Trees
These photos are all similar in their composition. The main figure in the foreground of this photo is a limb on a pine tree. It seems as though you are sheltered by the tree and looking out into the open land. The ground in this composition is actually a golf course. The overall composition of this photo compares well with William Kentridge’s drawings. Many of his drawings have objects in the foreground and a scenic background.
This photo is of a near-dry creek. The image contains many trees but a distinct feature is the limbs nearest to the viewer. This effect helps to give a realistic visual feeling. It too has a sense of depth with of variety of distances to objects. The foreground in this picture is the sloping hill on the far side the creek. Like William Kentridge's drawings, this photo too has objects in the foreground and a scenic background.
This picture is very visually appealing. With a long, slender tree limb stretching out across the photo, it leads the eye to the left side of the picture. From there the trees reflections in the water may catch your eye. Then leading you to the herizon line made up of trees. It has some similarities to the two previous pictures, but has one distinct difference. Like William Kentridge's drawings, this picture has immense amount of eye movement.
Friday, October 16, 2009
One Point Perspective
This photograph depicts several book shelves in one point perspective. It has a horizon line and one vanishing point. Much like Edward Ruscha's simple drawings of perspective.
This photo really has an interesting composition. it depicts one point perspective found in the middle of a billiards game. It has a single vanishing point and a good well defined horizon line. This photo also connects to Edward Ruscha's drawings of single point perspective. Only in the aspect of perspective though.

This photograph is of the hallway in a college dorm. The image is the most similar out of the three, to Richard Serra's sculptures. Both the image and Richard Serra's sculptures are long narrow pieces of artwork. However Richard Serra has many curves in many of his sculptures.

Service Project
For our service project in Drawing 1, our assignment as a class was to help finish tracing and painting the scenery of the Watershed on Wheels project. I personally painted the first day. It was very easy to know what to do because all of the scenery was numbered for a specific color. Very similar to doing a color by number only on a much greater scale.
The second day of working on the service Project, I had a chance to do the tracing onto the canvas. It was a little more difficult because we had to work off of an overhead and lines were easily moved and changed if the overhead was bumped. However, the tracing was very fun!
I enjoyed doing the project and I learned a lot!
The main idea of the Watershed on Wheels project was to inform people about what pollution from nature and man does to the environment. It gives many different types of pollutants and where the end up. For example: one canvas depicted a cow standing in a pond. The Cow pollutes the water and water runs into streams and eventually finds people. That is only one example of how pollution travels.
That is what I learned in the Watershed on Wheels Service project.
Oh, and dont bump the overhead!
Friday, September 25, 2009
Chiaroscuro
This image evokes the good and the bad. It tells me, there are bad times and down hill times, yet there is something bright ahead of you.
I feel like this image relate with Edgar Degas's dwrawings because it shows precise perspective.
This image evokes emagination. The image is not one that can be easily identified, but could relate to many things. It might appear to look like an arieal view of land. It is actually a dinosaur bone with a white casting agent.
The contrast in this image somewhat relates to Edgar Degas's "Le Sommeil".
This photo shows a dramatic change in contrast. To me, it evokes cleanliness. The white on the left looks very clean and neat. The right side of the picture is very different yet is also clean and neat. It shows how things can have extreme contrast yet can be very similar in certain aspects.
Likewise, Albrecht Durer's drawings have images which relate to each other very well.
My trip to the Salina Art Center was very exciting. I'm happy I even got to go though. Right off, I missed the bus to go to Salina. Then I had to rush to get ready. I then had to find the place! Luckily I arrived just a few minutes after the bus. I was able to enjoy all of the creative art. I saw some art with different perspective from the norm; aspects that I had never thought about before. The lecture that I enjoyed most was one by the curator of the Art Center. He was very informational and told us about many different careers in art. I was surprised at how many different jobs there are in the art department.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Zoned
Teeth
relaxed

This picture says to me "relax." This guy is definitely relaxed with no worries. The plants show tranquility and peace. There are certain aspects of this photo that catches my eye. The lines are one. How the bench rolls in to the picture. and how the plants fold inward. The color is also a great aspect. The broad range of lighting is peaceful and comfortable. There is also a balanced range in colors.
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