Deco

I had multiple iterations of my deco composition, and while I think it was successful I feel like I could have gotten it a bit more deco, but Im happy with the results. The process is as follows.

Color

I had difficulty using the medium (acrylics), but the intent was to take two words; one noun and one adjective and create a color pallet to describe both elements. I chose to use the words "ethereal" and "oceanic".

I wanted the word ethereal to overlay the word oceanic like a sheer scarf with oceanic bleeding through. I wanted the color to be light and whimsical, I don't believe I hit the mark on this, but the colors I mixed were white yellow a touch of blue and some red.

I wanted oceanic to be a bold blue, as I feel oceanic is a slightly more intense the words like sea or ocean. Originally I was trying to have the letters of oceanic be reminiscent of cresting waves, but found I was unable to convey that feeling justly; so I worked on trying to give the word itself a wave form. The colors I used for oceanic were blue a little white and a touch of red.

Again my ignorance with the medium limits my ability but I am intrigued enough to play with the medium more.

Line Assignment

I had some issues in the actual production of this assignment as I will talk about as we go. The assignment was to take an image and then manipulate it in various ways; Representationally, texturally, Geometric Abstraction; taking the image and rendering it down to its base geometric lines; biomorphically, rendering it as a more organic image; a further abstraction of either geometric or biomorphic rendering;Abstraction through Reversal, composition, and lastly non objective abstraction.
I am going to change the order as to have the Images more appropriately fit into the series.


The image I used was a skull I have had for years.

Firstly I had the Representational rendering (The only manipulated image)

I went from there to my textural Representation, which I tried to produce a realistic texture, and not over embellish the Image.

Then I used anamorphic objects to recreate an Image of the skull.

I the worked on a general Organic abstraction.

The next image I produced was a further biomorphic abstraction.

Then I used multiple images of the skull to create a likeness of the top down view of the skull.

The I used the top down view of the skull for my geometric abstraction, and finally I combined the two views in a non-objective abstraction.

Wave or Particle ?

So I know you are dieing to understand the wave particle conundrum...
Here is a little animation I found quite enjoyable....
I give you Dr.Quantum!!

Tessellation Frustration

This whole Tessellation thing caused no end of frustration, from finding am image I was happy with to actually arranging them in any kind of cohesive order, though I feel the end result was interesting, Ill leave this process to others less inclined to go cross eyed or insane when confronted with excessive repetition.

The first part might have been the most difficult...actually settling on a shape that I was "happy" with...This was what I ended up with.

Then I began playing with it orientation and color of connecting "blocks".

I must admit once I got to this point the process started to grow on its own.

This project had more organic quality to it, where as I did not know what was going to come out of the shapes and the final image, though fairly simple, I thought had an interesting flow and was much more pleasing then I would have thought, though there was no "intent" in its design, at least not in the truest sense. I would say there was guidance but not intent.

There it is, a cornucopia of shapes.

Cannon 2

Cannon