For my third composition, I wanted to play with letters that looked alike. They can create a pattern easily, but interspersed throughout the page, they take on their own personality.

My second composition reminds me of how each person has his/her "spokes" but we can learn to compliment each other and work with each other despite our differences. The swooping ends of the ys or hs further demonstrates that whether one is of a smooth, easy going personality or more structured they can again arrive at a unified place where each can thrive being who they are.

Assignment 4

I had a bit of trouble with the previous assignment, so this time I tried to pay more attention to the composition aspect of the assignment. Our fourth assignment was designing with type. I love type, so below are my three compositions. I was advised to engage the edges of my document more and to think more of the frame that the composition is in. Something else that I learned today that helped me focus on abstract art is its definition. I used to think that abtract was anything that came to our mind. But actually abstract art is derived from visual reality that is distilled or transformed by reducing resemblence to the original source. That really helped me understand that it was simpler than I made it to be. Though this assignment was supposed to focus on type, I designed my compositions in such a way that they reflect something that could happen in real life. For example, in my first compsition, the e's are hanging on, but one fell. The first e-j combination are clinging to each other, but the next e ends up falling and thus break the chain of unity and connection.

Assignment 3

I thought it was interesting how we learned about point of rotation and point of weight. I had never heard that before. I'll always try to think of that now.

color to abstract compositions

So tonight I began playing again. Adding color was great fun. Below are my compositions: Foliage, Dancing Whales, and Waves.

So the above were my first creations. I have entitled them: Space Walk, Space Stars, Elephants and Birds, Shell, Bird and Fish, and Boxes because that's what they started out to be but ended up being suspended something.

Interestingly, the elephants and birds won out in class. If we would have had a break in between presentations, I would have pulled that one off because I did not think it represented anything from a distance.

My own personal favorites were the shell, space walk, and bird and fish. I happened to create those as I was playing in Illustrator. I stopped when I saw them and thought they represented something real. I am not sure how that happens when we draw or try to be creative. There is a point when the scribbles take on a life of their own and it becomes art. I really think that the moment the image embodies something familiar to us seen in nature or around us, something is triggered inside of us and we realize that it speaks back to us. That's what happened to me with those pieces. They stopped me and I was satisfied with the "creation."

Now on to assignment two.