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.