Graffiti Animation for Shu and Jeff

By a Graffiti artist from Buenos Aires.

Art we can do as a class....

"SunStruck"

"Bubblelicious"

Can you believe that ever small canvas is done by a different artist? It's amazing how as a whole, the painting still looks like it's done in one style, although all the artists, obviously, paint differently.

This is just another interesting way to do art...maybe we can do a collective piece like this? (AFTER our DaVinci photo of course..hahaa)
-karen

gmail art

I was browsing around youtube the other day and I came upon this. Its pretty interesting.. Who would have thought of painting a webpage?! We are becoming to dependent on computers, browsing through many sites each day... But still! I dont know if it would affect you guys as much as it affected me.. I just thought i was something different... really exciting :D.

We paint objects, photos, landscape etc... but the idea of painting a screenshot problably never hit any of us... Wouldnt be that interesting to look at. But it was pretty funny :P

gmail art

Unscrew America

I was on dictionary.com and I saw this little ad on the bottom left. It looked pretty interesting with its these little graphic circles. The design of the website was actually pretty awesome, its wasnt like one of those flash websites that were overly flash-like that you couldn't read any information. This website was very creative, free, fun, and informative all at the same time. I usually don't have appreciation for web design, but I'd have to admit this one was good. So good in fact that I read every article on it. The websites about switching from stoopid conventional lightbulbs to CFLS and LEDS.

Heres the website http://unscrewamerica.org/

Travis Millard

I was looking through Juxtapose, this art magazine in the library and I found this really interesting artist named Travis Millard. Some of his stuff is kinda strange, but I really like his quirky style, especially his creative ways of of making interesting, often humorous associations.
He has a couple of these, on the left is the topic and the right are comical descriptions of the often
negative effects of doing the activity on the right. This illustrations that go with the words are sometimes literal, but sometimes metaphorical such as the ropes that symbolize intestines.

This one is my favorite. If you dont understand, he blames his failing stomach lining (ulcers) on things that cause him stress.
I also found these two very intriguing. He utilizes his stylized faces to emphasize the fine difference between crying of sadness and crying of happiness. And he composes the arms and faces to incorporate a sense of movement even though the figures seem to be a grid-like static formation. A contrast is incorporated by using warm colors colors for the women and cool colors for the men, also not the little clouds. Yet with these fairly obvious contrasts its easy to confuse the two, and the emotions, which is likely the point.

I just wanted to share this artist because well when i watch a really good movie or hear a really good song i can feel myself smiling but when i look at artwork, even if it manages to convey something important to me, i dont usually find myself smiling. But when i saw this man wesley hitts photographs i found myself smiling. Even at images that seem kind of random, i feel he managed to capture it in a way that made me feel a certain happiness. I think that is a real talent because well i dont know if its just for me but i feel he just manages to capture moments so well. Anyone with a camera can take a picture but it takes someone who is really talented to get that just right.

http://www.hittphotography.com/

i cant upload the pictures here becuase of copyright issues but you can go there to see them

Pregnant Man

I remember Mr. Reyes once talking about what it'd be like to have men give birth. Well, after Mr. Lee Mingwei does, we shall know.

What does a pregnant man have to do with art?
Well, Lee Mingwei is an artist himself, and he's done a lot work that's been featured in many cities, including New York. I thought he did traditional Chinese paintings, but he's actually a contemporary artist. For example, one of his projects was called "Guernica in Sand." It looks nothing like Guernica though, I admit.

He also used different materials, like cloth and wood and... tea sets? And a few of his projects reminded me of Do Ho Suh, the Korean artist we watched a film on in the beginning of the year, who built houses out of fabric.

Check him out. For his art and his pregnancy.

http://www.leemingwei.com/mingwei-web/mingweiFrameset-1.htm

A Dead Dog as Art?

So...
I was looking around and found this TERRIBLE TERRIBLE news that happene a year ago.


A Costa Rican artist found himself in hot water with the animal protection people in his home country after using a starving, sick street dog as part of an exposition in Managua, Nicaragua, in August. Guillermo “Habacuc” Vargas allegedly found the dog tied up on a street corner in a poor Nicaragua barrio and brought it to the showing. He tied the dog, according to furious animal lovers, in a corner of the salon where it died after a day.

...

According to the artist, his “art” was a tribute to Natividad Canda, a Nicaraguan burglar killed in Costa Rica by two rottweilers guarding property he had entered at night. The incident caused friction between the two countries. Habacuc told the daily La Nacion, “I won’t say the dog died. The importance to me is the hypocracy of the people where an animal is the focus of attention where people come to see art but not when it’s in the street starving to death.” “The same thing happened withpoor Natividad Canda. The people sympathized with him only after he was dead,” the artist added.

Picture included:
http://petloverstips.com/ForTheLoveoftheDog/news-updates/a-dead-dog-as-art-petition

Is this art...
I think this is just a crime!!!!! A true artist should be able to express what he wants to express w/o any torture of any animal...
This poor poor dog died for the artist's art...
I just thought since we are all artist we should consider the question
"what is art"
even though art is something that we cannot really judge...

John Maeda advice

I recently came across John Maeda's blog where he gives advice about design:

I gave a talk at Parsons School for Design in New York City last week, and the school kindly put me up in an old hotel in Washington Square. After I got off the elevator, I was immediately confronted with the skinniest hallway I had ever seen. Entering my actual room, I was surprised at how spacious it was because the ultraslim hallway had signaled to me that I might need to be prepared to assume the Munchkin position in my room.

This experience reminded me of the three C's I try to teach my students as the three core principles of design:

Content: There needs to be a message or meaning. Everything needs a reason to exist, otherwise it shouldn't.
Context: Content doesn't live in a vacuum. A Chanel bag sitting on a shelf at Wal-Mart will only confuse.
Contrast: An element is made stronger when a counterelement is offered. Salt tastes saltier after one has had some sugar.

SAY LOVE SAY LOVE

Kate posted the chocolate runway post a while ago, but i just saw this picture, and it kinda made me wonder if the models will accidently eat the "art" while on the runway, since the mask is made of chocolate too..

anyways! the real reason i posted is to share this video with you guys! it's just soo cute,
and since we've been looking at paul pfeffier who works frame by frame to create video clips, and dealing with food themes..this is a clip created by 2-D animation specialists.
HA HA after this video, you just feel like life'ss goooodd..righht?

Crazy but good artist

Thanks Ev! I will take a look at that newspaper dress...

Anyway..

I just found this artists website, with all hie works on it. They are all really weird, but they are creative so I thought I would share them. He has some great ideas, though some are a little scary. He has done a painting out of blood for example.

I thought this particular piece was really cool. The artist, Phil Hansen doesn't just make his art on canvas with paint, he in this work did Jimi Hendrix out of match heads, and in the end he lit it on fire. Which looks like a massive waste of his time as it would have taken ages to create, but this artist isn't doing art for money, he is genuinly fasinated by art and ways in which he can create new and different peices that havnt been created before.
All of the artwork seen on this website are completley differnet peices from different points of view. If you look closely at one peice, you can tell the whole picture has been made out of tiny words, or bible references, and when you step back and look at the whole work, you can see that all those words together make a giant picture. Its really clever and detailed.

If you want to see more of his work heres the website :http://www.philinthecircle.com/amoment.html

Make sure you read what he has written about how he makes the work!

Recycled Fashion

I was researching for my next project when I came across this article from a while back. It's quite old but I thought it was cool to share anyway. This dress is designed by fashion designer Gary Harvey for last year's Recycle Now Week, a government-funded campaign in the UK to encourage recycling! The dress is made out of soda cans, soup cans, bottle caps, wrappers, plastic bags, etc.

And or Kate..by the same designer:

Newspaper dress!

Here's the link.

RANDOOM STUFF

yess after coincidently reading shu's last post about cars

and coming across this picture..i decided to post it!

can you guys believe this is acutally in a museum?

and actually the art on it reminds me of graffitii art..(jeff&shu)

-karen (more info)

Car Commercial

This is one of the articles posted on cgsociety.org. I was drawn to looking into when I saw a little animated kid who above him was titled "Mitsubishi Lancer." No where within me could I find an association that would put a cat-suit wearing child next to a suburban vehicle. After watching the video, I immediately realized that making the association was the whole point of the short. The director says, ""With the skew towards women and young families, we wanted to tell a story that would engage with families on an emotional level." The initial scene sets the stage, a depressed, somewhat sad looking toddler likely driving home with his mom. The skies are warm toned. With so much focus on the emotions of the child, it is easy to forget you are looking at car commercial. However as the story progresses, the child begins to draw is focus onto the car. As he develops a sense of safety with the car, so does the audience. I thought this short was so cleverly done, that after watching, you almost want to be like the child driving home in the with nothing worry about (especially the car).

Earphones Dress, by Daryl van Wouw

I found this browsing online.
Kate, I told you I would upload it for you.
Here you go:

I had no idea where it was from so I did a little researching.

The designer's name is Daryl Van Wouw, who graduated from the Academy of Art in Arnhem. He interned for Donna Karan! His work was first presented at the Amsterdam International Fashion Week in 2005, and then New York Fashion Week in 2005. His designs are mixes of street style or sportswear with hints of couture, which make them more interesting, and because of this he is known as "the Street-Couture designer"
I got really absorbed into his designs.

Here are some of his Autumn-Winter 2007 designs, I couldn't find out where the earphones dress was from. His inspiration here was mensuits, and you can see that in the designs of the dresses. The pink head and headphones is the logo of his brand; the head is the face of Daryl himself. The dresses are made with trouser bands..

Finally, I leave you with this one.. ... What do you think?

photos from: here

Origami House

Hey guys,

Here's a video of the Origami House from last semester. ITS SO COOL.


"Origami House" is the largest house made of folded paper. In total, the team used up OVER 1 square kilometer of paper (!), 15,000 folds, around 8 full-day weekends to fold, and 5 days to simply install.

The design of the bricks used in the house are pretty incredible. It's a modular model with the size 2 x 1 that interlocks like normal bricks. It has a really strong strength vs. weight ratio; ONE brick can hold over 6 kg of water without showing any signs of buckling.

The purpose was just to create something childlike, a house with the typical triangle and squares.. etc. That's why they used 45 degree angles for the rooftop. People viewing it are intended to walk INSIDE the house and notice all the details, the strength, the scale, and also reflect upon the process.

Video: The Process

from: http://revver.com/video/357849/origami-house/

Can't help it. I have to show you guys more photos:



that's origami SUSHI!


These orchids look so real..


I STILL CANT GET OVER THE HEELS.




It's a penguin!


View from the right front window

Okay, sorry for the long post.
PS. THE VIDEO WOULDNT WORK but i think i fixed it.
PPS. The exhibition was in Australia!

links: http://www.robogumby.com/papercrane/

Chocolate Runway

I just found a catwalk in Moscow which the theme was chocolate! The models all had chocolate on them, if it was a chocolate umbrella, hat or entire dress. Its crazy how detailed and cool these look, i wouldnt have suspected it was actullay edible. There is no article with the pics, but if you want to see them its really cool, at : http://www.theage.com.au/photogallery/2007/11/30/1196037119025.html

Strange juxtapositions...

As we have been working on juxtapositions, contradictions, oxymorons, irony, I've been more aware than ever of all the artwork out there that uses these techniques.

For example, Kehinde Wiley is a great example of someone who can intelligently juxtapose two worlds seemingly apart. The truth is, there are often more areas that overlap than we might expect.


Then there's Jen, who was talking to me yesterday about her two different interests: Disney characters and Taiwanese Aboriginal Art...or lack of. How do you combine those two interests??? Maybe it just hasn't been done and the door is open to invent something new!

Finally, there's SuWei who was talking to me about "Oribotics".


True?? Yes, you actually check out how robotics and origami meet in the middle, and you can feed the little critters too. Thanks SuWei.


ok, that's it for now.

graphic design... in motion!

I was watching Yuka's video and i remembered some things about graphic design. There are a couple branches of graphic design: the visual communication, which is basically... flat graphics? where things are done in two dimentions, but theres also motion graphics. I forget the other parts of graphic design but anyhow. I was watching youtube and I came upon this.
Funny, my sister's boyfriend does motion graphics... this stuff usually appears on TV .. obviously since its animated, but you know how during commercials theres always flashing text and stuff that animates and advertises... the next football game? Stuff like that... motion graphic is rather new and I dont know much about it either. But i saw it a couple of times on tv when I was in the states.
Heres the video:
SWEET
Also sweet

This is also kinda funky... and i have a feeling SOMEBODY :O got their inspiration from this for their last project. hahaha
funky
peace :D

This is a video for a song called Heart Made of Sound by a band called SoftLightes and i thought it was really interesting because usually music videos follow the story the song tells but this video follows more the words literally. I just thought it was something ive never really seen before and it caught my eye. I also thought the way the video was made with a lot of stop motion was very interesting.

For Karen! (again..)

I don't even remember how I came across this site, I think I just clicked on link after link and eventually ended up on the page. In fact, it's in a language I can't even interpret, does anyone know? Anyway, it's a bunch of food art! Except now the food is used as a scene and little figurines are being put on the food, hiking up the dessert "hill", mowing the lawn of..a kiwi. It's some really crazy stuff I absolutely love it. Just thought I'd share.

More pictures here!

I was just looking through some pictures used as advertisements and i realized there were a lot of bad ones but i found a few that were interesting in the way that they were presented. There are a lot of ads placed on buses but these showed creativity and had ideas that fit with what the ad was on. So they used the fact that they were on buses to make them more interesting. I think that's an important thing to do with all art, to think of the context and the materials and setting and use them to make it better.

Ferrari (Real) Version

This is the original film by Claude Lelouch. You can hear the gears shift. It's very different than Snow Patrol's version. It's longer too! Lelough was arrested after making this film. He was criticized for not heeding red lights and pedestrians and for encouraging speeding and reckless driving.

Beautiful video

This was a film done by a French artist. Later, the American band Snow Patrol used it for their UK version music video "Open Your Eyes."

really cool paintings

heres this guy i stummbled across when i was looking for this soccer player. anyway its this man who does pictures of athletes. at first i thought they were only paintings, but then i read furthur that he has now converted his style onto the computor, and unless people ask him for paintings he now only does his work on the computor. heres the picture i first found...this one is oil

i thought it was really neat, beacuse i have never really seen a painting with this much movement before, and i also really like the colors. It kind of reminds me of one of my artists in a way, because dega mostly tried to show the movement of just ballerinas..just a thought :)

he does alot of things for advertising agencies. which is really neat and he designed things for the 1994 world cup and other things. heres a link of alot of his other pictures if your interested .... i think there really neat.

the name of the computor program he used is the same one i heard shu talking about (i cant recall/find the name right now, but i remember...)

link<http://www.billhall.com/gallery.htm>

Let's Go!!!

Jia Yo everybody!

Stephen Reed

I was researching on some photos that I could use for my project when I came across this. Scrabble furniture! Actually, it's called "Wordplay." This was done in 2004..which was a long time ago but it's still awesome. Stephen Reed installed these in the London offices of Bloomberg. It's supposed to be "interactive" art since people can rearrange the words.

I thought it was really interesting and it caught my eye right away because it kinda relates to my style, with my takeout box being a bigger version of the original and everything. I think it is an amazing idea because well, for one thing its incredibly creative; I never would've thought of transforming a board game into lifesize furniture. Anyway, for more pictures and other designs by Stephen Reed, clickity here.

Kylie Minogue Fashion Exhibition

For my thrid project I am sewing a dress, and was looking for inspirations, I found these photos from a fashion expo of Kylie Minogue's dresses in Englad. This one here is actully made out of magazines printed onto fabric, which are actually photos of Kylie that are sewn together. A few are from her show which is a few places around the world, and a couple are famous outfits from music video clips etc. You can tell that Kylie likes the showgirl/cabaret style outfits, with bright feathers, colours and sequins. Here is the site if you want to see more, though they arn't amazing, I just thought that this picture here was cool.

http://golondon.about.com/od/londonpictures/ig/Kylie---The-Exhibition.-0JK/MUSEUM_DRESS.htm

really really AWESOME digital paint roller thingy

IBART pride.. yay! okay. Me, Susan, Yuka and Cindy went to the Digital Art Museum and it was incredibly awesome....It was ... like wow for an exibition that was free. yes. Anyways, the picture above.. is written on a wall with a laser spray paint . I think this was the most interesting and innovative digital art i've ever come across. The fact that the artist was able to paint our faces instantly on the wall by taking a picture and putting it into his computer was so amazing. He used a paint roller and like started rolling it... up and down on the wall and liek the picture started to take form and ta da... :) the sad thing about this is that the picture gradually disappears... and same with the words...

So yeah :) i think you guys should all go and look at all the cool new digital art. There are alot of other interesting digital things but i find this the most interesting.

adbusters

more youtube... interesting.


And another one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-vRVQbRBfs

=cr

visual illusions

you'll like this, i think.

for su... and anyone else who likes flying cranes...

enjoy.

Here's the pixel roller thing..

by the way, i told a few of you today that if you mention my name to the bouncers (or whatever you call them), that you would get in free. you seem to believe me so now i feel bad. i was really just kidding... it's free anyway.

...in case you didn't get that i was being silly. anyway, i hope you can all make it to the exhibition!

-rey

Canstruction

I was reading some random person's blog just now, and the person went to a "Canstruction" exhibit thing. Basically, it's a food charity..I really didn't mean to touch the topic of food again, it was a coincidence! They hold competitions throughout cities in the US and later on hold exhibitions. At the end of these exhibitions, all the cans of food are then donated to elder and day care centers, soup kitchens, etc. Anyway, these structures that people put together with cans were amazing, and I went to their website to check it out.






Doesn't this look familiar guys?! I couldn't help but laugh at this.


Etch-a-Sketch! Is that what it's called? It is from what I remember..
And these awesome chucks : )

Yeah, these are only a few..these Canstruction competitions are being held pretty frequently all over the place.. I personally really want to visit one of these exhibitions and really see these huge sculptures first-hand. I mean..imagine the size of it! I think this is a really great charity movement, it's revolved around design and creativity; the best part is that it's for a good cause.

if you're into digital tech stuff

normally, i don't say dude, but dude, this is awesome! i saw this group (Skoltz_Kolgen) perform with their laptops on friday AND saturday at the Red theater.

If you get a chance, visit the digital art exhibition right across from the Ximen Station exit. There's lots of cool interactive stuff there. But do it this week!!!!!!!

rey

Sculptures

As Karen and Mr Reyes know, I did a french presentation on the artist Arman. He was known for his creative "accumulations" of things but also, his sculptures and paintings.
I wanted to show you guys what sculpture I talked about.. and then move onto my own next project.

Okay so, here's the sculpture.

"Hope For Peace"

Arman (1928-2005) is a French artist who later on his is life moved to New York. He collaborated with many different artists; Andy Warhol was one of them. Some things he liked to do .. was to take apart things and put them back together in a different way.. often painting them or glueing them down on a canvas.. etc.
This sculpture, which was made in 1995 was commissioned by the Lebanese government.. to commemorate 50 years of the Lebanese military. It stands 32 meters tall, and INCREDIBLY includes 83 tanks/military vehicles.

OKKKKay. here are 3 more of his different styles of artwork.



Now.. my project.

This is hilarious. I well, haven't realllllly pinned down everything I want in my project, but I want to still.. keep it "in the dark". So, I found this art forum-ish thing, and I asked people for their opinions.
So some people had some good pointers and things.. but I was mainly concerned about the material I would use.. when someone said.. WHALE BONE. Whoever it was went onnnnnn and onnnnn about..
"...so I would gravitate toward that medium. Combs and needles and toothpicks and other items we take for granted these days played a significant role in early man's history and they were all made from bone. If it were my first sculpture and I decided to make a _____ I would make it from whale bone, but first I'd have to go and kill myself a whale and before I could do that I'd have to build a ship and have one of the metal chaps forge me a harpoon. Once I had all that done and studied navigation and learned the constellations by heart I'd get busy with my sculpture."

Anyways, just wanted to throw that out there for you guys .. if in the future you
a) need advice on your work (YEAH don't know if you would venture in that direction again)
b) want wacky ideas

if you're still interested in Arman's work.. it's quite interesting.. check it out here
on the left-hand side, under catalogue you can see many of his artworks.

CREATIVE bruce lee ART

LEFT: BRUCE LEE REAL RIGHT: BRUCE LEE BY PHIL HANSEN

Mr. Reyes definition of good art in class: MATERIALS + IDEAS + SKILLS

Since, many people have been exploring different materials of creating art (ex: candy wrappers, bubble gum, the whole food art things..etc etc) I decided I had to post this when I streamed on youtube.

This is truly a unique skill, to use simple materials along with good ideas and skills to achieve creative art. Watch Phil hansen (below), he's inspirational.

Help me please

Hi art buddies!

As you guys probably know, my third project for the semester is a movie. I initially wanted to film real people, make it grayish/bluish like the effects in The Return. However, after talking to a few friends and my mom, I decided that yes, I am a technological idiot, and maybe literally "filming" with a camera would be too difficult for me.

So now I'm considering animation instead. It's time consuming though...

What do you guys think?

The difference between graphic design and graphic art.

Theres a common misconception that all art created with computer can be considered as graphic design. However people must realize graphic design is a type of design, therefore it must have a concept and idea. For example, what people often call graphic design as shown on the left, is clearly not design. True, it may look great and appealing with AWESOME composition, but thats just about it, what more meaning will it have? I mean, the title of this work is "all the children are insane." It may have succesfully created a chaotic, but at the same time beautiful peice, but how else would you relate to "the children are insane?" Here, obviously the piece has no meaning, the artist took a series of brushes (stamps on photoshop) and created a nice looking composition... This is exactly like painting without a motive... I don't know what this kind of art would be called, but it is definitely not graphic design, maybe it could be called computer painting? Basically, in this kind of "computer painting" the artist has a set of brushes, which are like stamps, and the only thing they do is decide where to put images from the stamps to make it look good. However I should make it clear that I am not discriminating against this kind of art. It takes much skill of cropping, placement, color, composition, and most of all skills with computers to create a piece like this. But I just wanted to make it clear that this is not graphic design.
My sister is a graphic designer and she sends me some things that graphic designers make. Graphic design in the real world would be making things such as advertising, logos, catalogues, business cards etc... Well at least thats the things my sister does for her job. But that is the occupation part of Graphic design. Graphic Designers often make poster arts, so this post is kind of like Mr. Reyes' post on propaganda posters. Here are some posters that Graphic Designer's made that have meaning in them. They are clever, to the point, and emphasize a message. If you notice, a good poster should be able to connect to the viewer without having words on them, and many of these posters are quite clever.
Sorry for having the poster sideways, i forgot to change it when i was uploading. Anyway, graphic designers often make collages for posters and drawings. It ironic because everyone thinks graphic design is computer centered... But Graphic design is basically conveying a message the best you can to the reader. In the first year of college for Graphic design, they often restrict students from using computers, this is because they want the students to use the full potential of their mind to make something meaningful, they don't want the students to rely on computers. So, about this collage... Can you guess what it means?
Try to guess... because a good graphic designer would always be able to communicate to the reader with their art. Compare this poster to the previous one... the previous one has elements such as stereo's rainbows, targets, airplanes, buildings, and targets... What does this mean? now look at the art created by a graphic designer... By the way, I forgot to say... In the first image the poster is composed of a bunch of silhouetted cropping of pictures, and bright colors... it really doesn't send a message to the reader, and as i was looking at the site, i realized the artist DIDN'T have a description of his art... This means... not only did the artist not portray a meaning... He didn't even have a message in mind when drawing it! Anyway the second image is talking about plastic surgery... Did you guess right? This image is portraying how twisted plastic surgery is... If you look closely the image is a female composed of magazine clips and staples. and under it, clearly states "beautiful"... is this what you see as beautiful? have your FACE all stapled up with magazine clips? It was an interesting way to look at plastic surgery, and obviously the artist is not supporting it. Well... For me the message was obvious, and clearly the artist put great thought into it....!
Art Center college of Design is the number 1 Graphic Design school for commercialism. And their motto is Forms follows Function... this means that you must come up with a message before you come up with the form.. the function obviously would mean the message or idea...

I've been contradicting myself from what I make and what I say...
(to Mr.Reyes... Id like to say that these graphic design posters are often political and stuff.. like propaganda ... its another form of advertisement... so it is really hard to make graphic design personal... Unless you add features that relate to you like I attempted to do for my first project...But then when you do that you are making it so function follow form, therefore the piece becomes kind of like graphic painting, and the meaning becomes superficial)
I will be posting more graphic design soon.. mostly posters.

Color

I found this website a couple months ago that really helped with a color problem I was having at the time. When I was designing the assignment notebook with my friends we had some trouble finding a good color scheme to use. So we found this website that basically has tons and tons of user created colors and color schemes. The site amazed us at how many strange and different colors and be combined to make something completely new and original. If I can remember we ended up using a color scheme title "Mustang" or something along that.

It doesn't really matter what you are working with whether i'd be graphic design or painting I think color choice is really important aspect. And I found it is really hard to decide what colors work well together and how many to use. Often I find myself thinking, have I used too many colors, have I used too few. With this site you can really get a feel for how interesting colors can be. As I browsed through the schemes I began to notice the real effect of choosing colors. This is gonna sound corny but they can really incite emotions and thoughts that you really didn't think was possible.

Here are a couple color schemes:
titled : "Zenyatta Mondotta"
"Seasons pass me over"
"Vintage Europe"

Theres a couple of these kinds of sites these two are my favorite:
Colourlovers
Flash Site -> Kuler

Poster Artists

I love looking at old postcards and posters from countries around the world. The artists (usually anonymous) are quite talented. Anyway, I recently came across Maopost.com which features propaganda posters from China. Propaganda posters (in any culture) were generally a cheap way of reaching a large population, promoting a strong political message.


"Liberate Taiwan". printed in 1977
Taiwan has inspired many a propaganda poster in China. Two main themes are evident: Protection of the coasts and re-conquest of the island.

I'm not so political, but I think these posters can be interesting windows into a culture. Most cultures have them, including the U.S. (look for war posters). The funny thing about this website is that if you send them a photo and some money, they'll have your face photoshopped into a poster and actually painted on canvas by someone in China. Kinda funny and weird too.

-cr

Edward C. Curtis

I went to Edward C. Curtis' photo exhibition of American Indians. The pictures were scarily detailed, especially on things like hair and skin texture; they were much like layered charcoal drawings. Curtis even, after developing his photos on gelatin sheets, developed them on gold and silver, producing bursting images. I took a picture with "Chief Joseph" but the picture won't load on my comp. I'm gonna hunt down Shu.

Afterwards, I went to see the Taiwanese Aboriginals exhibition and found my grandfather's tribe. Yay! They're almost extinct though. Out of the tribes in Taiwan, the Tsou tribe is the fiercest and kinda the weirdest too; they chopped off people's heads and loved revenge (sounds like me) and had a thing for mundane colors and simple tattoos. One of the aboriginals looked like my dad and I my brother insisted that it was him.

I wonder if I should dress as Pocohontas on Halloween.

Hiya hiya yippee yi yi yi
yipee yi yi yi hi yi
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American History X- Filming

Im really interested in filming and the other day we had an assignment with finding an academy award winning film director, I chose Sydney Pollack and i analyzed The Talented Mr. Ripley which was a movie of his I really liked. Well this weekend I was watching American History X and I realized I was kind of analyzing it as I watched it (if you havent seen it I would cause its really good) and i realized some interesting filming techniques i never noticed before or that i noticed but never really thought of. For example when Edward Norton thinks back things turn black and white but somewhere while he's thinking back it just becomes color except its done so well that i dont even really notice the transaction till its already back to the present in the movie. I dont know i just thought it was really interesting how the movie was filmed and how that really added to the impact of it.

different medium?

I was bored and i came upon this on youtube... i thought it was interesting and kind of related to our last homework assignment(the different mediums)... I hope this "amazes you"... Its basically a guy "drawing" with Microsoft word... he uses "x" and "o" to fill up the page and make an image

Heres the link
if you dont see the picture, i could show you in school. its supposedly a face... the black parts would be the shadow... and the white part would be where the light is coming from.

I recommend letting it load and skipping to the end for the final product.. its not very interesting watching a guy type rows and rows of words XD

Jeremy Scott

While I was randomly surfing through the net, I accidentally came upon a really inspirational designer. I really love the bright colors and comical images he uses on his fashion. His collections feature some really "wild" things, from junk food to guitars, armed Care Bears to mummies. Anyway, for more info go visit Jeremy Scott.

PS: For all you candy lovers out there, I would like to ask for a favor! From now on, when you eat candy can you please save the wrapper and give it to me (except for the ones that are sticky of course)? Anything will do, I plan to use them on my next project, THANK YOU!

street painting # 2 and more...

On my other post i found that the artists name is Julian Beever. I found him on another webiste i was searching for psychology.

Anway i found more cool illusions becuase I thought i would link to other peoples posts. The pics on this site are so cool. This car is infact a red car painted onto a black van. Its really weird. Good website for illusions too, take a look:

http://www.optical-illusion-pictures.com/art.html

3D Street Paintings

I think Mr Reyes showed some pictures like this to us not long ago. These are some really cool pictures I found while searching google images. They are done by a man ( I dont know his name unfortunatly) with chalk I think, on the streets pavement. They look so 3D and as if you can just dive into them. I particualry like the optical illusion 2, called summer time. http://www.sudokuz.eu/illusion/illusionen.php is the website, there are a few pics on there, not all on pavement either.

interesting artcutecture

This picture is of a building designed in france around 1685 ish. That man who invented it at the time simon vollant, planned out this whole town. I think this building looks really cool. Most of his plans weren't normally like this they said that his was one of the first times he did something like this. I think its really interesting.

oh anf this one is one in london its a city hall there. its really cool. and it looks really funny. this is a picture of the outside of the building, and then the following one is of the inside. Its kind of cool to imagine walking around stairs like that.

Word could be illusioned too!

what do you see....? Do you see the face of a man? Or do you see the word "Liar"

After i had fun with optical illusion paintings... i started to realize that not only painting could have that effect, but also words too. Simply just a word could have the same effect, but words are easier to recognize. I realize that it's all about the way we perceive the painting. If we concentrate on it, we won't see it.. For example this ....

Do you see alot of blury black spots? Or do you see the word "lift"?... I realized that when we examine a picture, different effects are influenced due to our personal mood. If we concentrate hard on it, we see black blury spots. However, if we sit back and relax, and see the whole picture, we would notice the word. It is all about your perspective on the picture that sends out the effect of optical illusion. I realized that this goes the same for all paintings, and artworks. Any painting could be percepted in different perspectives because everybody has a different perspective. This is interesting because ... the same painting, could mean different messages to everybody. Therefore, i think that optical illusions whether in painting, or word form are both a way of testing our observation skills and determines our skill of observing different perspectives.

Tricky Tricky

What do you see?



Here is a test your sense of observation! I can only have 9 faces.. have a go at it:)



... I think art that makes you think is so cool! Optical illusions are one of the hardest type of art that could be made. I dont even know how anyone could think of how to make this..

Here is an artist that explores the style of optical illusion.
He is Rob Gonsalves... THe most interesting thing about this artist is that all of his art are optical illusions, however they are obvious. I examined all of this paintings and realized that his paintings are usually separated into two scenes, and it is the connection that makes the paintings illusioned. It all depends on the perspectives that you view the painting



this for example... if you look from the top, you would see ships in a sea... waves...and a beach. However, if you look from the bottom perspective, you see a person in a desert, and a sky full of seagulls and flying ships. So which is it?


same thing.. if you look from the top.. you see a waterfall.. if you look from the bottom, you see alot of weird people in white searching for something..
I think Rob Gonsalves mastered the techniques of opticall illusions for painting. The way that two very diverse scenes could be connected is in need of high level of skills and techniques. Therefore i think that artists that are able to express their art through optical illusions is fun for the artist and for the viewers.




If you want to see more of Rob's paintings... press this link
http://www.hrosecure.com/firstclass/store08/page14.html

If YOU want to see more of other fun and cool optical illusions.. press this link
http://www.frogview.com/show2.php?file=1190

about the return

i thought id show you guys these two pictures, because yuka showed me a picture of Ivan from the return the other day. I thought it was really neat so i went and looked for more, its interesting because you can see how his mood throughout the entire movie with just these two pictures. which is what were doing now, i know caputring things in just a couple of images that have a greater meaning or a kind of story. I thought these two pictures were sort of funny too, but it is sad that throughout the entire film he was never really happy. Its also really neat that peoples expressions give off so much about them. By just looking at these pictures of him you can tell he's not agreeable or that he will go with the flow. In the first picture you can tell how subborn he is, becasuse you can see his father to the right and there staring each other down. He was very persistant though, if i were him i would have given in because when your out in the wild with only two people you know for gazillions of miles it would proably be alot easier to give in, and go along with everything. i think that if someone had never seen this movie and they just looked at one of these pictures that could maybe decribe to you ivans characher, or what his mood was like throughout the film. (anyway this is kind of my test blog i hope it works!)

Photography

At the moment I'm into photography, and I was on mypace (again) and found that my friend made a webiste of her shots

Shes very good at it too. Her name is Lucy, and she took most of the photos on a school trip to Thailand last year.

There are alot of tree shots etc, but there are some really interesting pics on there, thought people might want to take a look, if so her site is :

http://www.yourmyteaparty.blogspot.com/

What is with all this food?

Guys... the food topics are making me really mad because I gained three kilograms. But anyway, I talked to Ev some time ago about one day when she's rich and famous from designing graphic Tees. And I'm obsessed with Rupert Grint. So bang! the two topics became one. Just showing Ev some boyish stuff because she's never talked about designing boy clothes.

Of course, makeup is also an art. If that isn't convincing to Shu or Jeff, then check out the body art way down below.










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Jason Kronenwald

CANADIAN ARTISTT * (YAY FOR CANADA..FROM TORONTO too SU!)

Produces ART without paint
100% gum, every inch of it!

No paint or dye is used: all colour mixing takes place behind closed mouths and the only tools needed for the application of the medium, other than a Swiss Army knife and a plastic roller, are fingers and thumbs. The final product is sealed in epoxy resin. Gum Blondes is the name of his series which includes Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Brigitte Bardot. From bubble gum pop to bubble gum pop culture. Kronenwald has a dedicated team of chewers (kids from a local karate centre) and prefers the texture of Trident. *(HAHA I thought this was hilarious) however, he does not chew gum himself unless he must.

Hmm...kind of interesting, and definately creative. Just thought I'd post this since the food art discussion is still going on. These works challenge the nature and purpose of their materials and present both technical and conceptual versatility.

BTW, to check out the Jason's "GUM BLONDE GALLERY" visit: http://www.gumblondes.com/main.html

-karen

Noguchi!!!

Some of you know I love Isamu Noguchi's work. He's not alive anymore (moment of silence please....ok), but we can still enjoy his work. The first image is a sculpture that exists in the Met, the other two are models of playgrounds that never got made.

Myong Ho Lee

This young South Korean artist does kind of a magic trick: it's simple, it's engaging, and it makes you wonder how he did it.





Find more of his work at this site:
"Myoung Ho Lee, a young artist from South Korea, has produced an elaborate series of photographs that pose some unusual questions about representation, reality, art, environment and seeing.

Simple in concept, complex in execution, he makes us look at a tree in its natural surroundings, but separates the tree artificially from nature by presenting it on an immense white ground, as one would see a painting or photograph on a billboard."

Fashion Designer

When I was still in Australia I used to go shopping at this really nice dress shop. I was looking at the brands on the tags, on a dress that I liked and saw the deisgners name- her brand is called Knight Cat (her name is Cat Knight). Anyway i found her on Myspace, and she has stuff all about her brand and being an independent deisgner. Shes only in Australia at the moment but hopes to branch out and sell all over the world. But she doesn't just design her dresses she also makes them, by hand. So there are only about 3 made, unless she gets speacial orders. So her dresses are unique, and really cool becuase they are different from other dresses around Melbourne, they are nice and simple. She uses bright fabrics, and materials of all different textures. Though they can be expensive, I still like them :) so heres the link to her myspace, which is just about her dresses. You can probably only view her myspace if you have your own account, but there are some pics here anyway. (Cat is the girl in the photos)

MySpace URL:
http://www.myspace.com/knightcatdesigns

Rollercoaster

I really like architecture because they are so beautiful and interesting. However, today, I’d like to introduce a rollercoaster to you guys(I think they are quite related). I assume that a lot of you already know this famous rollercoaster. It is the fastest and the longest one in the whole universe. It is called”Kinda Ka” which is in “Six Flags Great Adventure” in the states. This Thing can speed up to 0-128mph in 3.5 sec!!!In addition it only takes 50 sec per ride. Anyways, the max height of this rollercoaster is 456ft. Look at the freaky design of the rollercoaster.The color is so beautiful. It falls in 90 degrees. It is different from other designes of RC,it's simple but fierce!Do you guys dare to get a ride? Ahahahaha~ KINDA KA ←click★

Tortilla Heaven

I'm not sure if this has ANYTHING to do with art but after reading Karen's post about the potato that looks like a bird(personally I think it looks more like a slug) I had to share this. I found this trailer for a movie about how one guy makes a tortilla and jesus' face appears in burn marks. The plot seems about how he exploits his "small miracle" by charging people to see it and with merchandise. However comical the movie may sound, it seems like it does touch upon some serious issues. Heres the trailer.

UH OH, another blog about food!

First, I'd like to show a picture designed through adobe photoshop that I randomly came across while looking for food art..haha and this is to all the fans of graphic designing..(ahem*Shu and Jess) It really caught my eye because this design has alot of things and has no focus, which could easily distract the viewer or create a messy look. But the visual presentation was don well, and it looks very completed and "right" I love it because it includes famous "artworks" around the world, including architechures such as the colloseum in Rome, the leaning tower of Pisaa, or simply just a kangaroo, which is a symbol for Australia. Click: http://www.notcot.com/images/aroundtheworld.jpg to see a clearer picture

Also, In response to Jeff's post on making art with french fries, I found a similar video of some guy who decided one day to make a portrait of Marilyn Monroe out of Cucumbers. It's very exquisite because he has to cuts the sizes of cucumbers with a knife personally. It's very cool, hope you guys likee it!

CUCUMBER ART

"A SWEET POTATOE MIRACLE"

Also since people have been blogging about assembling food to make art, I thought maybe I'd post something opposite, such as this bird, which is an artwork of food. It's actually pretty funny, because the artist who made this did not intentionally try to make a potato bird. Here is the actual story (artist's own words) :

"Last night I was making my new favorite recipe, sweet potato quesadillas, when as I was peeling I realized that the sweet potato i was peeling looked just like a bird. Well, I realized right away that it was an important sign maybe even a minor miracle, because I was suppose to be finishing the project I was going to show my art kids the next day, and I kind of side-tracked with a hungry desire for sweet potatos.

This story makes me think that one cannot escape the fate of creating art at any given moment, HAHA and it's pretty true, all around us, art is happening.

Anyways, that's alll I wanted to share..OKay, sorry about this food fetish everyone is catching..haha....But hey! food IS so interesting to use to create art. materials+ideas+skills= good art right? haha well food is a very unique material, with the only downside that it can attract unwanted spectators (insects) and it's difficult to preserve and keep for memories.

-karen

Okay there seems to be a lot of food related things going on here and it made me think of this advertisement my mother showed me. The advertisers used the food and created clever images that are set up to draw people in to them whereas usually you wouldnt spend all the time in the world staring everyday things like watermelon or cheese. This italian advertisement did everything that i think an image of any kind should do, which is draw the viewer in. This is true not only in the visual form of art but also literary arts where the writer needs to catch the readers attention.
I tried to upload the pictures on here but there seems to be some sort of error so i looked around and at the link bellow you can see some of their ads:
http://ladykilling.blogbus.com/logs/10284840.html

candy wrapper dress

This is a dress I found on the internet. By a girl call Carlie Barrett whos a senior. Its made of candy wrappers, which I thought was kinda cool and different. Carlie was looking at candy bars in a magazine, saying which she liked and didnt like the look of. She realised that thats the way others can look at women, judging from the outside. So she decided to do a project with a candy wrapper dress, choosing bright designs for happy woman to wear etc. Anyway heres the site if you want to read more :

http://www.mytruespace.org/who.htm

Creature of the Week

A couple years ago I find a website that was used by artists to basically communicate and help each other out. The site mainly focuses on digital concept art, this form of art is mainly done on a computer through programs such as photoshop or painter with the help of a tablet or something. Concept art is not really anything special in terms of being a whole new form of art. It is really just a term to describe how the art is meant to be used as a template of characters/mood/environment for future production. This website allows developing artist to bring their skills up both as painter and as a thinker of concepts. I found this really interesting thread in the forum named Creature of the Week. Basically every week, a topic for a conceptual "creature" is chosen and announced to the public. The artists then proceed to paint and illustrate what they interpret the topic as. The results are amazing, both visually and thoughtfully.

The topic for the piece above is "The Secret of the Bermuda Triangle." Click the image, the description makes you really understand why it looks the way it does. There have been tons of topics over the years, from "Iceberg Devourer" to "Pinkish Peaceful Treehugger," if you can imagine what those look like.
Heres the Link: Creature of the Week
Theres threads for: Character of the Week and Environment of the Week

Food-related Jewelry

Recently, there has been this new trend in where people wear food as accessories. Well, not real food of course. I've spotted a couple of icecream and donut keychains on magazines, so I decided to look it up. Instead I found this wonderful site where they sell handmade food accessories, jewelry, and buttons! They are extremely creative and look really yummy. It's making me really want to make my own! Does anybody know how I can do that? Like..aren't there people in Japan who make food displays out of gel-like things? Anyhow, you can check it out here if you want : )

Portraits again

Hm... Here is the guy that drew the portraits out of ketchup chocolate and the grey markers. He talks about how the brain uses symbology when we're drawing. Basically like i said early this is what makes us make up stuff when were drawing, so draw from observation! Most importantly, hes analysizing drawing in a scientific point of view, he teaches you what your brain is doing and such... It takes a little while for him to start teaching the "drawing" and i dont think he has made any videos of him actually teaching us how to draw.. but his videos so far make good points about the mistakes people make when drawing. I look forward for his next videos
... heres the video :)
I think its worth it to check it out if you have time... though there are 3 videos T.T haha

HAIR ART

hello
this was on the news paper last week
i just thought its interesting and a little disgusting haha
but its fun to look at how some artist create things that are so unique !?

...artist Wenda Gu's latest installation provokes aren't because of its size, but its contents: 420 pounds of human hair. A viewer's first impulses are to lean forward and scrutinize the swirling, flattened locks; stealthily sniff (it doesn't smell); and fight the urge to touch it — and perhaps quickly recoil.

Hair for the 80-foot-by-13-foot banner was collected over several months last year from 42,000 haircuts of Dartmouth students, faculty, staff and local residents in Hanover. It was shipped to China, where workers in Gu's Shanghai studio dyed and shaped the locks into paper-thin panels held together by a film of Elmer's glue and tied together with twine. It and a second work, ''united nations: united colors,'' displayed in another part of the library are the latest installations in Gu's worldwide ''united nations'' project, begun in 1993 and all made from human hair.

The Return was all about the messages sent to us the viewers. The way I see it every image sends a message. True that some messages are more profound or meaningful than others, but that doesnt mean that the trivial messages dont count. The image above really caught my eye because of its bright colours but looking at the image you can see that its not H2O but H1/2O and under, I dont know if its big enough to read but it says that "In the last 30 years, the world's water supply has halved" The message this image sends is that we need to start taking more responsibility and stop wasting resources such as water. Currently in the world, issues such as global warming or saving resources or rain forests have become increasingly popular and have gained more awareness. I see that as an obviously good thing, but i dont think that people are really hearing it. I know we see or hear things like the image above all the time, but I dont think we really process them because in the end we're still pretty wasteful. I feel people dont really get the magnitude of the threat that not taking care of our plant poses. But i do believe that in the future people will find a way or change in order to survive

My Project!!

Hey guys! I bought an iMac so I tested out iMovies and there ya go! It's my project... instead of doing only one canvass, I did four (in the film there's only three because I forgot to take pictures of the last one) so it's more like photographs. I lied, Karen... I'm not almost finished. I just enjoy scaring you.

The little blonde boy is my friend, he loved water. He did daring stuff. He was skinny and tall and had two twin brothers and a sister and two very liberal parents. When he smiled he looked like a whale. He liked strawberry jam with rice. He has a sad story.

In The Return, we kept seeing snapshots and photos, and the two boys were keeping a diary. They also spent a lot of time around water (the lake, rain... etc.). So I'm "documenting" a story about my little blonde friend through a series of paintings that represent photographs. Sad thing is, I browsed through my diaries and photo albums and I only found a few entries and no shots of him. So, I had to dig through my mind searching for the truth.

Enjoy~

mere existence

Oldest Painting looks kinda Modern...

Hot off the press, I saw this story in yahoo news: Syria Painting discovered.

Eco-friendly Fashion!

This is the second time today that I've tried to upload a picture on here to show you guys some really cool eco-friendly handbags, but it failed again.. So you guys can go check it out yourselves at www.ecoist.com . Anyway, I've spotted these really nice handbags a few times at stores in the states and in Tokyo, but the choices were always limited so I never found the color I really wanted. Since it is pretty pricey, I never got one..but..they're so cool! They're handbags made out of candy wrappers! They also have handbags that are made from pull tabs from cans, like the things we like to flick after we finish our Nestea? And now, they even have bracelets that are made out of candy wrappers too, for a stop-global-warming cause. Everything Ecoist makes are made out of recycled or organic materials. Who says eco-friendly stuff is always dorky and uncool? These Bottega Veneta-style woven bags are wayyyy cool. They also state on their website that their primary aim is "style," and that they want people to buy these bags because they look good, not just because they're eco-friendly. Okay, just wanted to share : ) Recycle people!

"The History of Transportation" by Helen Lundeburg

This massive wall mural by Helen Lundeburg (1908-1999) is composed of 60 panels (8 ft high and runs 240 ft long) and is one of the last examples of petrachrome mosaic art (technique using combination of cement, stone aggregate and pigment - made to withstand Southern Californian weather). Because the original mural was heavily damaged, restoration began in 2000 and took some years to complete, then was recently relocated to the Grevillea Art Park in Inglewood. It basically narrates the history of transportation from the Native Americans all the way to people boarding a DC-3 aircraft. It was commissioned by President Roosevelt's Works Project Association in 1939 and was finished in 1940. I thought this was interesting because it related to the research Shu was doing on transportation, and was a significant piece; due to the fact that it was the largest WPA mural made, AND by a woman, that was dismissed and is only being properly recognized now.

an article : http://www.laweekly.com/art+books/art/helen-of-inglewood/16962/

learn more: http://www.cityofinglewood.org/depts/rec/human_services/special_projects/transportation_mural.asp

Arcimboldo for Karen

Although this is especially for karen, this artist is inspirational for any of us. Check out the slide show at the NYtimes: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/10/09/arts/20071010_ARCI_SLIDESHOW_index.html

portraits

ketchup
chocolate
grey marker
for karen.. ahha since u love food

you guys should watch this video... its about a guy drawing with ketchup.. its pretty interesting..
This guy is really good at drawing portraits and he teaches you how in a few of his videos... basically people "make up" stuff then they draw... they say stuff like.. "hey there should be an ear there..." so they draw an ear.. but actually people should really jsut observe carefully and learn how to NOT.. let ur mind get in the way of drawing portraits.. just observe and pretend ur drawing something youve never seen, that way you wont be making up things, which would make ur portrait look weird.

graphic design?

Hm... Graphic design is basically a way to communicate a message. Well To me this artwork does a great job of communicating to the viewer in terms of racism... I know this may not seem like that great of a masterpiece... but unlike alot of pretty "visually appealing" artwork, it really brings about a message. It's really important to base your work around a message, instead of trying to come up with a message after you create the artwork... that were the phrase Form Follows Function comes from, it was the motto of the Bauhaus, one of the first art schools created after world war II based on graphic design, architecture etc... But the term form follows function is really talking about the "form" or image/ artwork, follows the "function" which is the message!
Another excellent part of this work is the use of typography. I think these are simply excersises done by typography students to train their use of typography. Typography is a big part of graphic design, and its a lot more than just words, then it may seem... The heirarchy of text is a very big part of communication. Thus this work had the right use of size and placement to communicate to the viewer whats important, such as... Racism is the key to this poster.. so then they eye catches that first... stuff like that.. etc...

P.S. i dont know if the image is big enough for you to see XD... sorry

Research Topic

I'm I the first one to post? Hmmm. Anyways my current research topic is on environments. I like how artists are able to create detailed stories with just one scene of an environment. For example, the painting above shows how the people gather on the streets, maybe ceremoniously because of the hats and temple like buildings. The architecture is kind of mix between Greek (tall columns) and the Asian (curved red roofs), which also may suggest the cultures are a mix of the two as well. It seems the world is also fairly primitive, suggested by the elephant-like work animal and foliage which would've been cut down if it were our world.

The digital painting is called "Twice" by Theo Prins. Heres his deviantart

Ever wonder how to draw a face?

This website is an easy way to understand dimensions of the face and head. Enjoy, it's fun to watch.

Dan Eldon: The Journey is the Destination

For a look at a former IB student living in Africa, see this website. He died at the age of 22 working as a photographer for Reuters and left a number of journals that his father has now published. His journals are very creative and can be inspiring.

Elements/Principles

This website gives you the Elements of Art and Principles of Design, building blocks for the way we look at and create artwork.

Reyes

New work

Art Here and Now

Art Here and Now

Lotus

The image of a field of flowers came to my mind while researching Budhism. I am also studying the art of origami and have combined several different folding techniques to complete this piece. The larger flower is made up of several smaller flowers, to create the effect of layering. The legs however, have not given the effect that I was looking for, and in fact seem to resemble some sort of virus, or army of flowers.

Fashion Ad

This piece was originally from a Fashion Ad. I chose this image to practice my skill with shading. I chose a monochromatic color scheme in order to focus on value. I have just begun working with colored pencil and since this image had a lot of contrast, I found it was an appropriate image to practice my skill.

"Trapped"

This piece is called Trapped it shows the relationship of humans to nature. How nature restricts and binds humans, and that we do not control nature--it controls us; the vines wrapped around the generic person represents the bind that nature has on us. The plastic bag on the head of the generic person, shows that the harder we struggle the faster we are going to use up our resources and essentially kill ourselves.

Artist: Chaz, Taiwan
Medium: Wire, Newspaper, Paint, and Plastic Leaves
Size: Unknown

"Explorations in Textures"

For the following pieces--Texture1 and Texture 2--I explored texture using shredded paper. The pieces were deliberately composed of photocopy paper.

1. The first explores the juxtaposition of folds and creases in the paper in relation to the vertical lines. Shapes and curve lines that contrast with the strong vertical lines. From a distance the vertical lines are not visible and the effect is that there are bumps on the plain white paper. This pieced was inspired by the process of weaving where vertical stands are knotted to create texture on weaving.




2. The second piece is concerned solely on the effects of creating textures, patterns and shape and volume with flat strips of shredded paper. The piece is structured as if it were a basket with primary structures. Unlike Basketry, this piece is quite fragile and relies solely on the surface tension of the paper, its flexibility and the creases and folds. Originally the piece was completely smooth, the ceases were forced accidentally but the creases were set uniformly and thus give an orderly appearance. The fibrous strands are similar to the fibers in bread.



The purpose of these pieces was to explore texture, the color was chosen white as it allows for various interpretations when lit by different light sources. Inspirations of technique and choice of strips of paper come from much work from weaving, basketry and fiber art I explored last year. I am planning my next pieces in textiles, focusing mainly on embroidery and applique.

ARTIST: Sandy, Taiwan
MEDIUM: Photocopy Paper

"Untitled"

Artist: Sam, Taiwan
Medium: Acrylic

"Untitled"

I incorporated elements of Wassily Kandinsky¡¦s ideas into my own piece. I wanted this piece to reflect an artistic composition based on a piano piece by contemporary pop pianist/composer Jim Brickman titled "If You Believe¨. This is a piece that reflects the message of having faith and holding onto dreams and goals. I wanted to imitate the way Kandinsky depicts music, through use of line, color, and composition.

Artist: Katie, Taiwan
Medium: Acrylic

Here we go!

This is a place to practice your art critique skills. You can comment on any artwork, just make sure you sign your name with a pseudonym (fake name) and the country from which you are writing. Always take time to study the piece before you write. Your comments reflect you and your school.