Modern Skyway is the last of my pieces for my theme blogs for this semester.  It has a very personaly symbolic meaning which can be read in Theme Blog 2012.  This watercolor piece is my only watercolorpiece for this semseter and by far took my the longest to accomplish.  It was difficult to get straight edge lines and to come up with something simple and yet complex.  The colors used here are very dull and two toned. I choose these darker colors of olive greens and indigo blues because nlike all of my other pieces, i wanted this one to be a little bit more dark and solem. I wanted to keep this piece really simple and leave it up for interpretation by viewers.

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Overall I am satisfied with the way both of my block prints have turned out. I achieved my goal of symmetry and they are a unique piece to look at.  However, there are several things I would like to change about my prints.  The first being that in both prints it is evident that some of the layers did not overlap and whats left is a shifted layer of colors.  In both prints I would also have liked them better if the areas where I had previously carved out the designs was not evident.  I feel that in doing so these prints would have turned out much more clean and would leave both of these prints to look more sharp and less mucky.  The yellow print is byfar my favorite print of the two.  Each layer of colors is easily defined unlike the other one.  The orange and pink ink color choices are too close together making this print more difficult to see each layer and overall leaves this print to be more dark. The final thing I wish I had done too my block print when carving it would be to have added a border around the main squiggle.  This addition would have added some definition to the whole piece and also add some separation.

 

     For this acrylic piece, I knew that I wanted to have just lines and to use them to create a sense of depth.  For my color choice it was only fitting to choose a pair of complementary colors as well as a neutral tone in the background.  I choose to use a pumpkin spice orange and navy blue as my two main colors for this piece and a faded yellow to just add some contrast.  By placing the orange over the navy this piece appears to have a sense of depth and layering.  The pumpkin orange really stands out against the dark navy.  By having the yellow overlap the navy in the left hand corner it again appears to be that the navy is in the background while the yellow is in the foreground.  However,  by having the yellow staggered lines begin at the same level of the navy line on the bottom right hand corner, it almost appears that the navy is in the foreground while the yellow dissipates to the background.  I also choose to have all these yellow lines in this piece to be staggered to add interest.  Not one of the lines in this piece are of the exact same width.  I purposefully choose to do this to add interest to this piece.

     For this piece I was just browsing on the internet to better grasp an understanding of my theme.  In the end I realized that the term “geometric” didn’t mean I was to be confined to painted squares or other geometric figures to create one whole image from those figures, but that rather this term also meant pattern.  It all has to do with patterns that generally have straight lines, but can also include curved lines.

     After doing some brainstorming, I had come up with this design.  I knew that I wanted to use bold colors because the more bold and vivid the colors, the more of a statement the piece has.  Which is why you see the yellow against the black in the center of the target on the right side of this piece.  This can also be seen as well through the orange stripe atop the painting adjacent to another splash of black. 

I initially wanted this charcoal drawing to be a magnified picture of a leaf. I choose to represent this organic plant because I wanted to experiment with lines.  To have them be of different lengths, and widths to create the illusion of depth and space.   Through this peace I have also experimented with value.  Some of these lines appear to be black and of a heavier width to make them bold and standout.  However, next to some of these big, bold lines lie some greyish white lines.  The lines in this light shade are generally more petit and thus giving them a much more soft appearance against the bold lines.  Having these two dramatic values against one another creates a false sense of depth and gives the illusion of space as well.