Tea Party!

Ok here's my homework assignment, the tea pot tea cup and saucer debacle  =)

Animal Compositions

 

So Wednesday evening was really fun! It felt really good to be seeing the world in shapes. I'm noticing them more then usual now,

What I've always done in the past to notice composition is taking advantage of my nearsightedness. I look at things without my glasses. Then I just notice the shapes sans detail. =)  I highly recommend it for all you other nearsighted peeps.

I really enjoyed this because it got me thinking that way naturally right off the bat and it's still working! Glasses on or off! Joy!

 

Seals of disapproval:

 

Swimming seal:

Aloha oi Teddy!

Watch Teddy Kennedy's speech on health care:
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Aug. 26 Composition Homework

 

This painting has similar circular shapes that are in a horizontal movement pattern. They are broken up by the face which becomes proportionately more important then the circles.

 

The cats are ordered in visual importance; my eyes go to the small cat and spiral up to the medium sized cat, then to the large cat. So despite the dominance in size of the large cat, the alignment of the cats creates a different order of importance.

 

This image directs the viewer to the warrior, the darkness points to the white area of the image because of the direction of the darkness, and the positioning of the white area as the focal point.

 

 

Both of these illustrations show proportion.
The one on the left  obviously shows the pig is smaller then the tree, but it also shows a movement pattern, the shading goes in an S like shape into the tree and behind the pig.

The image on the right shows unity, similarity, proximity & alignment. We can see that that we are closer to the tree in the foreground, and that the tree is in a forest.

 

 

The two faces on the right are similar with square shaped faces and are aligned with each other. On the left, the long faced character on the left is asymmetrically aligned, put lower in the frame then the other two, which indicates the relationship between the three characters. We know through these elements that the guy on the left is the odd man out.

 

 

A diagonal composition is used in this painting, the opposing diagonal pattern of the rain against the umbrella's line creates the feeling of movement.

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My ah-ha moment

I have been drawing for as long as I can remember. Drawing is a calming and meditative thing thing for me, I love to zone out and just notice how the light falls onto a shape and the shadows cradle forms. I also love drawing hands and feet, they are still challenging for me don't get me wrong, but oooh all those little fingers and toes are fun to draw! They create such intricate cylindrical shapes to shade and can create many different directional designs.

I remember the first time I tried to draw a realisic hand, when I was 8. I drew an outline that was proportionate, but I was fustrated because I could see how the light and shading was on my hand, didn't know how to interpret it on paper yet. I went to my mother and she said "What do you mean? That looks like a hand, it's just simplified like a cartoon! What's the problem?"

Then I had an ah-ha moment, I may not be able to master fine art at age 8 but I had a plethora of cartoons to be inspired from. From then on I mimicked drawings of all my favorite cartoons at the time, Bugs Bunny, Ren & Stimpy was a big influence. Then I went on to create my own characters based off of my Stuffed animals and Toys.

That's where my love of drawing and cartooning blossomed into something that would become a lifetime practice. I was blessed to have creative parents who encouraged my artisitic inclinations.