Creepily Disturbing....

For some reason, I felt the urge to post this here. As most of us may know what these are... it is kinda sad, true, but oddly freakish about these photo's presented below in the link...

http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/09/16/this-disturbing-fan-art-shows-the-darkest-days-of-our-favorite-90s-cartoons-2275138?lt_source=external,manual



Oh Paul Ribera, you've definitely brought to the sad reality to this world. I have unfortunately lost many many many MANY high school friends to drugs, and that scene is no where near the scene I was going to put myself into so they went off to do their thing, and I'm doing the right thing. As all of us here are (to our best abilities).


I would also like to add, if this is to much or to ugly anything, I will remove. I just had the urge to post this reality sense of the people that we know change into things that we don't expect them to.

Launching the Imagination; Pages 98-111

I ABSOLUTELY LOVED that they talked about the construction of Mulan (100-101), since that was one of my FAVORITE Disney movies... and it makes me want to watch it now that I'm older and that I have read this about the movie itself... It makes it just that more interesting. And it's almost like how as an adult you watch little kid movies and catch hidden messages or the moral of the show itself, this is just a deeper understanding. Though, the book talks about alot Thomas Eakins Double Jump, I find it very interesting myself, in how the very first 'Person" is the boldest and not as faded, as I think that the last "person" should be very bold as well. But, the book could not have thought of a better example for fragmentation.
(Side note; fragmentation is like trying to show a ball in motion too)

Photomontage Project "One Step Back"

From the moment that motion was rambled off in the list of ideas for this project, I instantly thought of a train. Before I moved closer to school, I lived in Finley (Fintuckey) And the trains run what seems like every twenty minutes. After living out there for a year, I got used to them. But now I live in Richland, and I for some crazy reason wanted to remember the train. I then took an adventure out to Toothaker to wait for the train. I waited for about half an hour then the first train came by. Being my luck, it was the kind of the train that I wanted to do a project on; it was an amtrak train, not a cargo train. So I waited some more. Waiting for another hour I start to get pretty bored, so I then took off down the road that goes alongside the railroad track. Took some selfies, and pictures of my truck and finally I hear the ground rumble again. 'Get ready' I told myself, cause the day light was running away fast. It came by so fast, such an adrenaline rush it was amazing. I took 78 pictures of one train in like a minute. Also, that is why I named it 'One Step Back' because I was standing pretty close to it and as more of the train went by the more I wanted to take a step back cause I was just so close. 

For this project I mainly used the magic tool, the lasso tool, the blur tool, the smudge tool, and  the eraser to my advantage. Many of my classmates helped me as well. One day in class I got overly frustrated and thought to myself that this is ridiculous that I feel like this, so I then went home and played with my photomontage for 5 hours figuring out photoshop. And wala! Here it is. 

Launching the Imagination Pages 81-98

Right as I opened up to page 81 my attention was immediately drawn the picture on the bottom, the first thing I saw was the boy and his fire breath. Then I started looking around the picture recognizing how different this painting really was. With the fish bowl being front and center, it's almost as if the artist wanted to show off the fish more than anything. But the rest of the chapter is a hoot. Once again whenever I read in the book I always think of my own pieces, whether how much rhythm they have, or the isolation, or contrast. It all grabs my attention to think about my pieces in that sense. As for getting into chapter four, it reminds me of drawing class, and to me became an extra reminder to keep in mind of my linear perspective in my pieces as well as the space I am using.

Launching the Imagination pages 66 - 81

While reading this section of the book I had kept in the back of my mind about my photomontage and how to improve critiques and reviewing artwork. The six essential aspects of grouping, containment, repetition, proximity, continuity, and closure; all gave me insights on what I should do to make my photo montage better and more appealing the moving eye. Also, I really enjoyed reading about the different kinds of symmetry's and balances, it brings me back to my point about the moving eye. But, I love how this part all ties into each other from the beginning of the section the end of the assigned section. From groupings, to balance, to symmetry, back to grouping to apply the right kind of symmetry.

Self-Portrait

My Self-Portrait portrays my eyes, lips and hair on a tree. I am a nature type of person. I picked a tree because tree’s are always growing, and developing new limbs and growing new leaves. Especially each year, they produce something new of themselves all the time. Tree’s adjust with their environments and stay put were they know they are happy. Tree’s enjoy their scenery and provide the best thing for this Earth, which is oxygen. I feel as though I provide the best thing for the Earth that I can provide, and that is productiveness, organization, growth, strength, protectiveness, nurturing, and being happy. Though a tree provides all these positive things that are acquainted with life, there are negatives too. Enduring harsh weather, fearing that they will be cut down, pollution, crowdedness, bullies, and diseases. Trees provide a long life full of many uses, also being as furniture, warmth, paper, plastic, many more. A Tree provides a life full of many uses, and purposes. Showing that they are multi-functional, as I feel as I have the ability to attain many purposes in life as well, while I grow and branch out my experiences for further my limbs to greater this Earth. 

-Emily Williams

Launching the Imagination (Preface - page 66)

Intro and Preface;

I have never been required to read the Preface in a textbook before, but the Intro I have. Though, I have had previous teaching from the "A guide to three-dimensional design" textbook, I am happy to be involved this textbook too.
I really liked how the intro opened up with defining Design; as a noun and as a verb (xviii continued to xix). This book will really help with expanding personal potential with the design process, and that is exciting.

Pages 2 - 10

The first paragraph of chapter one brought me all the way back to Middle School when my art teacher told us to define 'line'. I had no clue. Now being in college and studying art it is amazing, the big long definition that 'a line' has. What really brought my attention to this section of reading was the subject on page nine of Using Line. The fact being, that a line is what everything is composed of.

Pages 10-38

I love how detailed this book can get, the detail to describe "shape" just puts a picture in my head of what the book is explaining before I look at the example given. On page 16, I found it funny how a nonobjective or nonrepresentational shapes are pure forms, since I would think that it would be the other way around. Also, the book gave me a better meaning of texture as well, explaining in more depth about texture on a canvas, and how the artist uses trompe l'oeil (26) for their viewers. (The word trompe l'oeil kind of sounds like tromp the eye). Then, wrapping up this section with value, brings both shape and texture into a good perspective.

Pages 38-54

OOOOO! COLOR!

Once again, this book has amazing detail on what seems to be such a simple topic. The discussion of color makes me happy that the book discusses color. Color is such an important part of our lives it is so amazing. I really enjoy the picture on page 42, 2.9 A-D, the different effects that the background can have on the presented colors really puts a twist to the eye. Either if the painting being made is mainly dark colors, or bright colors they are all very appealing as well. It would be so boring if everybody saw or just made art in Black and White (reminds me of the movie The Giver....) Anyway, the discussion of Harmony and Disharmony is a great deeper understanding of Color itself. I really like the split complementary color schemes (51). It reminds me of myself getting decorations for my new apartment that I'm moving into, to make certain pieces pop! But, I also like this scheme because it does offer more options that the complementary color scheme, but not quite as interesting as the triadic color scheme.

Pages 54-66

These pages were very inspiration to me, since I have been decorating my brand new apartment and organizing things by color! And using color in each room to act for different emotions. Just like the sentence on page 60. " In each case, color is used to heighten emotion rather than to represent reality." This is so true, that colors and decorations work to heighten emotions, cause if I were to leave all of my walls plain I would be upset, and unhappy, but my decorations make it happy, and have a homey feel to my new apartment! Either way, colors help with emotions and brighten the mood and day. They definitely determine how one is going to feel based on the color present.

P.S. I swear I did these all on time! I'm getting it figured out! 

From now on, they will be all their own post!

Confusion and Correction

So, I totally just realized that I was doing this all wrong. And I was creating new Blog Names for new folders. Or something like that.... Anyway, here are the links to my readings and my self portrait.

http://deeteeceethreefiftyfive.blogspot.com

http://alldoneherewego.blogspot.com

http://woodcreationswsu.blogspot.com



Ooops! I'll get it figured out someway or another!

Now their there, now their not.

Coffee and Starburst, Here is a start to my photomontage! Haha.





Just kidding.