boo -- a website

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/230740303/index.html

sweden did it, we can too

Im not really sure which one i like more.... the light slogan doesn't really go with the lightening bolt, but I cant think of something else. i think it would be an ideal if we were to just run out of garbage, like sweden did, but i don't know how to put that in a short phrase..... help??

any tips???

suzanne styrk

I liked the end of chapter 6 with suzanne stark. Her study of plants and specimen contributed to her career as an artist. "My whole worldview centers on the awareness of other lives."

She also mentioned something that applies to us during our critiques. She says she hopes that her work will elicit important questions, but "the first communication begins as purely visual experience. The conceptual sneaks in there after the eye is seduced."

i been slackin. bad!

Gonna work backwards...for whatever reason. Because it's interesting. Because I want to.

On page 143, talking about different kinds of critiques, I zoned in on the "cause and effect critique" or the formal analysis, specifically for this image:

 The first thing I noticed looking at this was that it was in multiple..."layers", I want to say (because photoshop and illustrator are making me dream about layers and layers and layers). The two at the front on the right are separated by the light post dividing the whole image by half, and the line even continues all the way to the bottom with the shadow.

Now look to the left. I know it's the same scene, but it looks so well divided to a point that I'm almost convinced theyre somewhere else, like the lamp post is a door.

... too many portal based TV shows. hahaaa

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i don't know what happened but here it is.

we were told to start out with three numbers or letters, and while i had no idea, i've been trying to envision a tattoo for myself based off of the vector-style images on the chapters of the book Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie. i eventually came up with "FFC" for Fly, Fight, Crow. In the film Hook, a twist on the original story (I'm sure you've all seen it. RIGHT???), Rufio, Peter's replacement after he left, chanted fly fight crow as the mantra for the Lost Boys.

I curved out most of the sharp edges, but left some in because I liked the aesthetic. I wanted to keep most of the vectors soft, and some of these, especially the middle with the "mop" effect in the back was actually an accident.

the color choice was my default choice... my favorite color is purple, so I ended up using shades of purple.

I originally intended to do something a little sky colored -- I've been taking a lot of pictures of clouds lately and was wondering if I could use that as a "color", but I think that's more photoshop based, and it never happened anyway.

Have you ever bought a piece of art? (this is two posts!)

If so, where? What drew you to it? If you hung it or placed it, where did you put it?

I have a reprint of something I got from a friend after he passed. I've loved it and have always had it hung wherever I've lived, and recently considered getting it reframed before I move again.

Chapter 4:

"Fragments" was the word Michael used when he was describing someones piece. Because in our assignment we were told to somehow portray movement of time, some kind of motion, "fragment" was exactly the right word. The Stewart text reflects here on page 103:

"As an object moves, ist sequentially occupies various positions in space. Visual fragmentation can be used to simulate this effect in art." There was an example of a painting I really liked called Frieze of Dancers by Edgar Degas. This painting mirrors a lot of his photography too, and his interest in "human and animal locomotion".

communal dust bowl

photomontagey?

at first i tried to figure out what it was that this was representing, but i realized after a second that nothing lined up. i also noticed that it was an interesting use of photo montage examples and that it followed a sort of grid pattern. clever.

link: http://systemik.tumblr.com

Chapter 3

i usually find that i like asymmetrical balance in all photos that i do, but i just recently learned about the rule of thirds. i heard about it in high school as a freshman, but never really picked up on it. i'm terrible with anything that has to do with measuring, but olga described it perfectly for me! and now i think i got it.

if you ever thought about moving to the tri cities, think again

thissss
that is all.

photo montage

thought process went something like this.

oh well hey i really love my dog, i'd like to shoot rio playing in the yard and maybe i'll reinvent the background to a time lapsed richland uptown. love that place. it's a nice season too, and the trees are pretty lush from across the street.

and then

do we have any pictures of our house being built? 

to

where's the giant box of family photos.

this feels like it's gonna be a magic carpet ride through the Universe of Nostalgia. don't title it that.

 

 

 

 

 

Visual texture

Richard Haas painted a mural on the side of Oregon History Center, altering our view drastically. This was a manipulation of visual texture and shading. It spans 8 whole stories!

I found the Value and Lighting section of particular interest for the sole reason of the movie stills at the back of the chapter. Not having seen this before, it makes me want to, but I would also like to see live shows for the lighting positions. This film still was a good example of lighting to me. It discussed the lighting most effective for villains or for making some of the main characters approach light and divine.

Colors

I'm enjoying the section about colors. I never paid much attention to color sequence before because I thought it would just come naturally, but when I tried to take a painting class at CBC, I discovered I really didn't understand. It is ok to put two not so harmonious colors in the same painting because it brings up not so harmonious feelings in its viewers, and that's ok too.

I especially enjoyed Wolf Kahn [Corpse II, 1992]. As I said, expansive spaces appeal to me, and even more so, secretive expansive spaces. I don't know how long this forest would go on, but I would want to go! The use of those purples is also appealing to me, this would be a piece I would buy!

my first hand at photoshop -- self portrait

The flowers are supposed to be representational of the women in my blood line, specifically myself, my mom, my grandma on my fathers side and my grandma on my mothers side. These are the flowers I grew up around, the ones I vividly remember them having growing while I was there. The sunflower is for myself and the purple dahlia for my mom. In this instance, the only reason for the sunflower is because I like them and again, I remember growing them. 

This is loosely based off of an idea I had for a tattoo in a couple of years.

I used the polygonal lasso tool to cut out the flowers, and an oil paint filter for each of the flowers on a different scale. I used the burn tool on the hands and downloaded a couple of brushes for the tree effect at the top. The only way I managed to stitch the clouds together was by blurring and creating what I could of a distraction, which ended up looking a little like a storm cloud or rain cloud (to me). 

I played with the water surface a lot as well to get it to not be so shiny. A lot of blurring was used here (and everywhere).

I think I could've figured out another way to arrange the flowers, but it would take more time.