Friday, March 30, 2012

Bechtler Museum Architect

Sorry this is so long, but apparently you can't just attach a file? This is an article about the Bechtler from before it opened (so its a couple years old). It discusses the architect and design of the building. Did you know that the entire facade is ceramic tiles? In some of the pictures you can see the tan building next to it and that's the Mint Museum. Just though you guys might like some background info before our trip on Wednesday.






This is a color picking game that gets you to first discern hue, then adds in saturation, complimentary colors, etc. It is very well crafted and made me think about color in a different light.
http://color.method.ac/

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

HALATION

Best example of halation I can find is the "gradient" from orange to cyan. Did anyone else find any other convincing ones?


Monday, March 26, 2012

The Principals of Movement

While looking for inspiration for our movement project, I found a "lesson" online about how to create movement by controlling the viewers eyes. By creating a path for the viewers eyes to follow, you can create moment in your work. This can be achieved through repetition, rhythm, or action. Repetition occurs when elements within a work have something in common, rhythm occurs when repetition leads to a flowing movement, and action is created through implied life and activity.


repetition and rhythm
movement in design

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Screen Printing blog

http://www.etsy.com/search?includes%5B0%5D=materials&q=screen+printing+art&ref=related&page=1

This is a website for screen printing. It's a blog, almost exactly like ours where people post their screen printing art and try to sell them. Take a look if u need some inspiration.

Movement


In researching movement, I discovered the work of Harold Eugene Edgerton. Edgerton, an electrical engineering professor at MIT, created and patented a series of high-speed electric flash mechanisms. This enabled his cameras to capture movement by documenting the tiniest slices of time. His work became known as "strobe photography." This technique allows for the capturing of motion (balloons during their bursting, a bullet during its impact with an apple, or tracking of a devil stick motion). Check out his website here to learn more.

Andy Warhol

 

Taking a huge part in making screen printing an icon for the design world, Andy Warhol became one of the most famous people in the modern arts with his prints of Marilyn Monroe, along with many others.  When I visited the East Gallery in Washington D.C. last winter, I noticed his unique color combinations in his portraits, usually consisting of vibrant hues of pink and yellow, and I was also surprised by the size of some of his works that were displayed.  They ranged from small, hand-sized portraits to giant full-length boards that covered an entire wall from the ceiling to the floor.  The repetition of prints also made me realize the importance that the color combination has on the mood of the piece.  One of his collection piece consisted of huge repeating prints that had no clear particular subject matter, relying only on their colors to convey the meaning of the prints.  Based on what we've been learning this semester, there is a lot to be learned from him.

Also on this website, you can change the color combination of the Marilyn Monroe portrait to see for yourself what the colors do for the portrait!

http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/marilyns.html

Georgia O'Keeffe

As I was doing research into different screen printing styles I came across this artist that did a lot of work in screen printing and in particular found some good examples of prints of flowers, similar to the one I did for class on Friday.

Halation

As I was looking up information on halation, I came across this website. It was really helpful in explaining what halation is and how color is relative. The video at the bottom was especially informative. I find it so fascinating how the eye spreads color beyond its actual realm and how you begin to see a gradient that isn't really there. It is also neat to see how much colors depend on one another and how the same color on two different backgrounds can have completely different effects.
http://www.banksy.co.uk/index.html
Definitely my favorite vector artist. Use this as inspiration, or as he says on the website, "pretend you drew it yourself for art homework."

Illustrator


I found a video on youtube that really helped me with Illustrator. It shows different examples of how to make curves and lines and it demonstrates many different shortcuts that make it a lot easier. Hopefully it helps!

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Movement

I have asked you to create a square composition expressing movement, using analogous colors and exploring halation.
Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending A Staircase No. 2 is one of the most influential paintings in the history of modern art, and it is one prompt you can research for capturing movement. Duchamp reinterpreted Eadweard Muybridge’s sequence of a naked woman walking down a flight of stairs from his 1887 Animal Locomotion. Duchamp combined Futurist and Cubist ideas in a unique way and depicted movement through fragmentation. Most viewers weren’t impressed by its showing in the 1913 New York Armory Show.





Tuesday, March 20, 2012

illustrator

youtube videos arent really my thing, so heres a site i used to get myself started when i was having issues figuring out illustrator. it goes over things like pen tool, blending, text, paintbrush, color, customizing your windows, etc... and they're constantly adding to it. just something i found useful!


Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Trip to Baltimore Harbor over spring break






These are just a few pictures I took while I was at the Baltimore Harbor over spring break. I was surprised just how in tune I was with the architecture surrounding the harbor and the public plaza on the harbor, and their significance. I saw buildings that were transformed from old factories to night clubs, a museum with an indoor jungle, old rusted boat parts used as statues in the plaza, the holocost memorial, and more. It was refreshing to see what I had been learning in my classes here at Virginia Tech, are excessible everywhere, and are just now being noticed for their picturesque and functional aspects of their designs, by me.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Paper


During the first year competition I came across the work of Peter Callisan. Peter Callisan uses paper to construct beautiful and intricate paper creations. His work gave me a lot of inspiration and ideas. I would recommend everyone to take a look at some of his work.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

This is crazy, and reminded me of the freshman competition

Inspiring art using paper

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/29/the-beauty-of-paper-art/
 This website had some inspiring designs using paper, most of which may be too complicated to create with ne 19 by 24 bristol board, but they can help to bring ideas if you're stuck. Also, their are references r related posts towards the bottom that can probably help.