The Book Project...progress and planning

My original plan for my first page was a scene where a father is walking into a war vehicle going of to war, while his wife and children watch from the distance. I have not finished my first page but sp far my plans have not changed. Everything is going well but I need to pick up the pace. 

Studying Nighthawks

Nighthawks-1942

By Edward Hopper an America artists

The painting is very detailed. I see a man and a women sitting at a bar with one other women. There is also a bartender and a street. The painting is very balanced because of the colors chosen. 

Edward Hopper is an American artist who lived in cape cod during the 1930's and 40's. He was a very famous and talented artist who married a model. He made the painting Nighthawks to resemble a restaurant. The painting is really about three customers all alone in the bar feeling lonely. 

He puts Emphasis on the yellow door on the back by making it a bright color on top of a dull color. He balances the picture well by focusing on the people on one side but also using a bright color to even the balance out on the other side. There is no rhythm or movement.

Finding Images That are Balanced

The Artists Habitat

An artist is someone who expresses anything thinkable through a visual, or hearable representation. An artist is someone who can express them selves and describe something in many different ways. Being creative means being able to think about everything in two ways, and being able to see what others don't see at first. 

Giving Up Control: POURS

To make a pour painting you had two pick several colors of paint pour them onto a blank sheet of paper and tilt the paper to move the paint around. It felt weird and somewhat frustrating to do something where I had almost no control. Surprisingly enough, the paintings in the end turned out beautiful and the only way could could have their unique beauty was by letting go of control and leaving it up to physics. The paintings were very good because the paterns and shapes and mixed colors, could not have been accomplished if there was control in what you wanted the outcome to look like. 

Revisiting My Pour Panting

1. Man with sun glasses
2. Monster with an open mouth
3. Devil faced human
4. Robed man
5. Animal slepping

Revisiting Observation/Description Activity

The parts of the painting that looked like the original were the one that described the layer and clearly stated the relativity to other objects in it. Describing what the general shape was and not the details worked very well. To many times the paintings were off because people focused on the details and not the key points. Describing size relative to the actual sheet of paper was also helpful. When people draw shapes inside shapes, and when people focused on detail the drawings became to confusing and it made the drawer feel disoriented in terms of shape and space in the drawing. If I were to do the activity again I would focus on color and general shapes in space more.