Monday, February 25, 2008

WE RACK!



Here we see Tim's fingers representing yellow's relationship with the other two primary colors, red and blue. Analogous-first row (proximal phalanges).

The second row (middle phalanges) represents yellow and its relationship with its complimentary secondary, violet.

The third row of knuckles (distal phalanges) represent yellow's monochromatic tints and shades.

With my initial color wheel and gradient, it was simple to reproduce this on Tim's fingers.

COLOR WHEEL!

Color Theory

The color wheel starts out with the basic or 'primary' colors: red, yellow and blue.


By mixing only two primary colors with eachother at a time, we come up with the secondary colors: orange, green and violet, shown in between the primary colors in the wheel displayed below.


These secondary colors can then be adjusted by the addition or removal of some of their primary forefathers to create variations which we call hues. These are referred to as tertiary colors: yellow orange, red orange, red violet, blue violet, blue green and yellow green.


Three colors side by side on a twelve hue color wheel are referred to as analogous as they all share one primary color.

Any two colors directly opposite each other on a twelve hue color wheel are referred to as complimentary. They share no primary color, and therefor compliment each other.

A monochromatic gradation is the varying tints and shades of a hue, going from the addition of light (or white) to the subtraction of light (or addition of black).


When painting our color wheels and 9 tint, hue and shade blocked gradients, the biggest complication by far was having too large of a gap between neighboring blocks.

Monday, January 28, 2008

ZZZZOOOOOMQUILT II

Dear Patricia,

http://www.zoomquilt2.madmindworx.com

All my best,
Magrieta

Feminine pink lady water.
The use of pink, generally associate with the fairer sex is used to market Evian Natural Spring Water.


Manly red toilet paper
Portraying a brawny mountain man accented by manly reds shows a toilet paper with a man's strength in addition to 'enough strength for a MANLY MAN!'


Playful mural
Super colorful, playful, childish in the generous use of color shows much emotion, freedom and excitement.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

CONCEPTUAL ART'S SOOO COOL.

My conceptual piece is very simple. Take a picture of myself when I wake up, and before I go to bed every day for...a month. Or a year or something. Make the fact that it's morning or night very obvious, show some natural lighting of either.

let's do some activities, yes?


In our activity pieces, I was a little confused as to the number of people who we were supposed to involve. A stretch from the usual pair of people, I required more than 5. The activity is called silent football, and usually there's two or more people who already know how to play, so the only directions given to new players are:

You can Zoom a Zoom, but you can't Zoom a Zoomed Zoom.
You can Fwap a Fwap, but you can't Fwap a Fwapped Fwap.
You can Shrug a Shrug, but you can't Shrug a Shrugged Shrug.
You can Shrodem and Shrodem, but you can't Shrodem a Shrodemmed Shrodem.
And you may never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever
Shrug a Shrodem nor Shrodem a Shrug!

Dealing with all new players, all the rules must be explained.

This was super complicated, and everyone was totally confused, but it still worked out anyway and we all had SO MUCH FUN.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

OH MY GOD CHECKOUT THESE PATTERNS.

Wikipedia defines patter as "a form, template, or model which can be used ti make or to generate things or parts of a thing, especially if the things that are created have enough in common for the underlying pattern to be inferred, in which case the things are said to exhibit the pattern." The patterns designed for this class are classified as "tiling" because its one repeating shape in a grid.

I like my composition because I think it shows positive and negative space well, while also being aesthetically pleasing. One unfortunate pattern I noticed was there the image, rotated and put in sets of four, as in a box, looked mildly reminiscent of a swastika. Although, the swastika was originally a Buddhist symbol of peace and tranquility, so as long as one has that mindset, it works.