Week 15 Special Edition- Mark Rothko

"The Subway Series" "The Retrospective"

Craft- He juxtaposed large areas of melting colours that seem to kind of float parallel to the picture plane. He was a different painter from everybody who used violent brush strokes. The way this painting looks is that the paint is not even on the picture plane and it is kind of floating above the plane. Kind of three dimensional in a way.

Concept- Rothko was only interested in portraying some sort of human emotion in all of his paintings and to get some sort of emotion out of his fans. When people would look at his art, Rothko would want them to have some sort of emotion come across their face and he would know that he had achieved what he wanted.

Composition- The first thing that I see is the fact that the colours seem to float above the painting plane. The second thing that I see is the people walking down the stairs and the fact that it is some sort of subway. The third thing that grabs my eye is the people in the back, seems to be some sort of ticket sales going on there probably for the subway.

Week 15 Special Edition- Vincent Van Gogh

"The Potato Eaters"

Craft- The dark and thick color was used for pictorial effects as well as philosophically to say something. The picture seems dark and trolled rather than being painted. There is total union from painter and painting. Van Gogh wanted to have a painting with figures in it and he completed various sketches of it before sending reverse lithograph prints to two different art dealers. The heavy brush did its own manual labor which is the meaning that he is trying to portray in this painting.

Concept- It is a resume of everything that he had felt and thought up until this time in order to make him a revolutionary artist. Manual labor is the main meaning that these people are peasants who dig up the potatoes and then eat with the same dirty hands.

Composition- The dark colors make you ultimately begin looking at the oil lamp hanging in the middle, the next thing that I see is everyone's expressions. After that you see the hands and what they are eating and you see that their hands are dirty as they eat the potatoes. The dark overall colors really kind of depress the mood and make it more of a sad and down kind of painting, but it has a fantastic meaning to it. 

Week 14- Websites

http://sxuhero.com/vc2s12/gjpfinal/

http://sxuhero.com/vc2s12/gp/

Craft- In the first link, I drew up 20 images and colored them all in with colored pencils to get the best looking image out of it. The 20 images tell a story with two different twists to take you through the story. After all of the images were done, I scanned them all in and put them into Dreamweaver to finish the website. The second link is nine images portraying writing an article without using any words. I drew up the nine images and colored them in in Photoshop using the paint bucket tool and the eye dropper to get all of the same colors for all nine images. Following this I put all of these photos on to Dreamweaver as well to finish the website up.

Concept- The first link is twenty images to tell a story about going to a Bulls game and the different paths that you can take that may or may not turn into going to the Bulls game. This is twenty images to portray that very story with two different twists. The second link is nine images and that portrays writing an article with just illustrations and no words. The colors are all done using Photoshop and in the first link all of those colors are done using colored pencils.

Composition- In the first link, the first thing to see throughout is the overall story and how the different choices can turn into getting to the Bulls game or not getting there. The thing to see in each image is how each one of them change and all of the different colors that are used to really enhance each image. In the second link, the first thing to see again is the overall story of writing an article using just illustrations and no words. Then throughout is the same colors being used as well as how each character interacts with one another.

Week 13- Final Photos

Craft- These are the photos for the final project. These pictures I drew up to tell a story with two separate twists in it. I also colored each one of the photos to really bring out the photograph.

Concept- This is a 20-image project portraying a story of a man who is coming home on a plane and his audience has some decisions on which way he can go in the story. This leads you down a couple of paths to either good things or bad things.

Composition- The first thing to see is the colors in each one of the photos. Then the next thing to see is how the photo ties to the next photo and so on and so forth. This whole project tells a story and that is the ultimate thing to see is what the story is all about.

Week 12- Nine Illustrations colored

Craft- These pictures were all hand drawn and then colored in using Photoshop. I used the paint bucket tool and dropped color into the different layers (light, medium, dark). This got the color into the background, the most important items and the second most important items.

Concept- This is nine drawings with no words to illustrate someone writing an article. The colors that I used were what I thought looked good to symbolize this illustration.

Composition- The first thing to see is the light blue colored items and then the medium blue colored items second. This way the light blue items stand out the most over the rest of the items.

Week 8- Final Black Swan

Craft- I took the photo that I had for the Black Swan movie poster and I added a lot of text that is what was on the movie poster from the actual movie. I used a lot of photoshop tools to add the black around her eyes as well as her lips and crown. All of the text is photoshoped as well.

Concept- This is a very close equal movie poster to the Black Swan movie poster. The Black Swan movie poster has Natalie Portman on the cover who looks very white and has the same makeup that I tried to portray here.

Composition- The first thing to see is her eyes because that really stands out. The next things to see is all of the text and then finally the lips and the crown. The eyes definitely jump out first and foremost though.

Week 11- Color added to Illustrations

Craft- Putting this together involved changing all of the colors to red, orange and yellow. After that, I found some colors that really worked together and I changed everything to different shades of blue.

Composition- The first thing to see is the bright light blue things in each of the nine pictures, then the second thing to see is the next dark blue colored item in the pictures and finally the background dark blue color.

Concept- These nine steps explain how to write an article without using any words. The next steps were to draw everything out and color them in. Then when you look at each picture, you see the bright blue items first and then you see the darker blue items second and third. This concept is controlling your eyes to see the brightest thing first before anything else.