Thursday, April 24, 2014

Cube apple


Finish the third background and starting apple painting
I wanted to do cube apple but Cornell didn't let me :< 




Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Monday, April 14, 2014

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Vocabulary Review #3


PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITIONAL DESIGN



Rhythm - regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound

Directional Movement A principle of visual movement in artworks, which can be carried by line, dots, marks, shapes, patterns, color, and other


Proportion / Scale - a principle of art that describes the size, location or amount of one element to another element


Balance - a sense of stability in the body of work. Balance can be created by repeating same shapes and by creating a feeling of equal weight.


Unity -  the common arrangement of a group of objects or their common characteristics such as color, size, shape etc but this does not mean they are necessarily identical (wholeness) 


Harmony What looks good together? Color relationships, composition, symmetry.

Contrast show differences when compared, opposition. 


Emphasis (Focal Point / Center of interest) - the main subject of your piece. 

Vocabulary Review #2


Elements of Art / Design
  • Line - mark that spans a distance between two points 
  • Shape - enclosed space
  • Form -external appearance & Volume - The space that a object or figure fills
  • Color - element that is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye.
  • Value/Tone -  is a quality of color/ shade of color
  • Texture - the visual and especially tactile quality of a surface
  • Space - distances or areas around, between or within components of a piece.
  • Perspective - the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.

Vocabulary Review #1

  • Analogous Colors - groups of colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel.
  • Complementary Colors - colors directly opposite each other in the color spectrum.
  • Primary Colors - any of a group of colors from which all other colors can be obtained by mixing.
  • Secondary Colors -  a color resulting from the mixing of two primary colors
  • Tertiary Colors - A tertiary color is a color made by mixing either one primary color with one secondary color,
  • Asymmetry lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something; lack of symmetry.
  • Symmetry - the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis.