Six ways to create the illusion of space

The following is a list of six ways to create the illusion of space in your artwork.

1) Linear perspective---Linear perspective is a drawing method that uses lines to draw objects in space.

2) Overlapping---When one object is positioned in front of another object, part of the object behind it may be blocked from view.

3)Size--- Objects that are closer to a viewer appear larger than objects that are further off in the distance.

4)Placement on the surface--- Generally, objects that are positioned lower on the picture plane will appear closer than objects that are positioned higher on the picture plane.

5) Color and Value--- Objects that are closer to a viewer appear darker in value and warmer in color.  Objects that are further away appear lighter in value and cooler in color.

6) Detail--- Objects that are closer appear more detailed than objects that are further away.

scale and proportion

Scale refers to the size of an object in relation to another object. While proportion refers to the relative size of parts of a whole.

The statue David is a good example of scale and proportion. The scale of this sculpture is over 13 feet tall. The proportions within the body are based on an ancient Greek mathematical system which is meant to define perfection in the human body.

Unity and Variety

"Unity can be defined as similarity, oneness, togetherness, or cohesion. Variety can be defined as difference."(Stewart pg66). Jasper Johns uses a variety of lines to keep the picture lively and not boring. Santos creates unity by using a limited color palette. Seurat uses a limited color palette as well to show unity. These artist can be found here on this website http://www.animationtaco.com/ap/ap_unity.html

Toothpaste Art

You'll be amazed to find out the above piece of art is not a painting. The above piece of art was created by Cristiam Ramos using toothpaste. Ramos creates celebrity portraits using nothing more than common toothpaste. Ramos spends up to 200 hours working on a single painting and 30 tubes of toothpaste. “It is very difficult to make these as the toothpaste becomes very sticky and dries quickly,” he explained. “The smell can also be overwhelming, which was challenging during the long days of up to 10 hours painting.”

You can see more of Ramos's work at his website http://www.cristiamramosart.com/

Tom Anderson

Remember Tom Anderson everyone's first friend on MySpace, well he's traded his MySpace profile for a new hobby: landscape photography. He began his hobby at Burning Man 2011. He credits his hobby to photographer Trey Ratcliff.

You can read more about Tom at http://abcnews.go.com/Photos/myspace-founder-tom-andersons-life-landscape-photographer/story?id=25364138

Trevor Paglen

So taking these DTC and Fine Arts classes are new to me this semester. The starting point for the DTC minor is DTC 355 and FA 331. I wish the minor would have started with some lower level courses,  feel out of place compared to some other students who seem to know a lot about art.

Anyway along my way in this course I am being introduced to new artist. One such artist is Trevor Paglen. Paglen is a digital artist who works with Limit-Telephotography. Limit-telephotography involves photographing landscapes that cannot be seen with the unaided eye. Paglen uses Limit-telephotography to show remote military installations. Limit-telephotography uses high powered telescopes that use a focal range of 1300mm to 7000mm.

German photographer. Gursky’s work is characterized by the tension between the clarity and formal nature of his photographs and the ambiguous intent and meaning they present, occasioned by their insertion into a ‘high-art’ environment. It is comparable to that of contemporaries such as Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff and Candida Höfer, all of whom were influenced by the documentary approach of Bernd and Hilla Becher. During the 1980s and 1990s Gursky’s work took on an increasingly global range of subjects, and he presented his images on an ever larger scale. Through all his work runs a sense of impersonality, a depiction of the structures and patterns of collective existence, often represented by the unitary behaviour of large crowds. His images of the stock exchanges of North America and East Asia are exemplary in the way that he uses crowds to create a type of picture comparable in formal terms to the ‘all-over’ compositions of the Abstract Expressionist painters. In the early 1990s Gursky used this format to represent grand urban landscape vistas in the Far East, juxtaposing different urban zones and suggesting an interplay between the zones of leisure and commerce.

The Man Who Invented a Color

Yves Klein created a hue of blue. He was inspired by the blue sky. He originally called it International Klein blue. The following link is to one of his exhibits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mJCVM3d7jw.  Before Klein Blue Yves was most famous for an exhibition in Milan that included 11 of his identical signature blue monochromes. Th show ushered in what Klein called his blue revolution.

To learn more about Klein and his obsession with blue follow the link to an article in BBC http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140828-the-man-who-invented-a-colour

macbook pro

So I bought myself a MacBook Pro with my financial aid check. At first I was reluctant to buy a Mac, since I've always been a PC man. I am a computer science student and most things in programming are learned on the PC in Linux. I've recently learned that you can program in C and C++ on the Mac. In fact the Mac operating system is programed in objective-C.

My other concern was the duel-core processor. On a PC for what I do a duel-core processor is slow and sometimes unresponsive. This is not the case with the duel-core processor on the Mac. It runs very smooth and without issue.

Don't get me wrong I love my new Mac it is a lot lighter than my PC laptop and a lot easier to carry around. This is especially important when your college textbooks weigh a ton (every pound counts)

I will not however be trading my PC desktop in for an iMac anytime soon.

Color Theory

http://thevirtualinstructor.com/Color.html

This website talks about how color theory is just that a theory. It is not proven like a law.  Color theory can be broken down into three elements----the color wheel, color values, and color schemes.

On this website we learn that the color wheel was invented by Sir Isaac Newton. It's interesting to learn that the color wheel was invented by a scientist and not some artist. The primary colors on the wheel are red, yellow, and blue. These colors cannot be made by combining any other two colors. 

Color value deals with the lightness or darkness of a color. Adding white to a color produces tints while adding black to a color produces shades.

The site also gives a good breakdown of color schemes. This is a must read for all art students.

I'm so buying this.

The IPhone 6 goes on presale tomorrow  September 12, 2014. It will be shipped September 19, 2014.
I'm going to buy the new 5.5 inch version.The phone consist of the new A8 processor. It has double the amount of transistors of the A7 making it a lot faster. The new phone has an 8MP camera, this is much better than the IPhone 4 that I have now.

This is my self portrait. I took a colored picture and made it black and white than I converted the picture to a smart object. I than used some built in filters in Photoshop to add the color back in and give it a pencil drawing effect.

In our readings this week we learned that atmospheric perspective is one of the easiest ways to create the illusion of space. In an article on arthints.com it gives us eight things we need to know about atmospheric perspective. With atmospheric perspective as the distance grows between viewer and object the contrast between viewer and object decreases.

http://www.arthints.com/what-is-atmospheric-perspective/

ww.ultimate-photo-tips.com/visual_design-elements.htmlThis link talks about lines in photography. It talks about how lines can be objects. It talks about how lines walk a person through a picture.