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Anmol Kaur

April 28, 2016

Professor Frank Adae

                                                                        Field Trip

            Society of Illustrators was an experience to learn more about art and specially illustrator. Many art work was shown from the early years. There was a red wall where everything famous work is hanged to be talked about. There was harry potter poster painted so cleanly. Many president’s pictures were hanged on the wall as you go upstairs. It was delight experience to know about art and the place.

            On one floor, they had a café and Rick’s work hanged around the walls to look at. They change it after 6 weeks, so it doesn’t get boring. They have place for people to sit and talk about artwork and have a good time. Top floor was all about artwork that are still so famous today and talking about the work and how it is done. All floors had different works of illustration, posters and paintings. Many works had a story to tell about the time it was made in. They had shop where you can buy all of things related to artwork.

            They also had basement where artwork was there too. A lot of rare art and very explicit work they had. The illustration work was from the 1800s and many have funny illustrations. It was an experience that I never had of illustration. The building itself is very old and holds a lot of importance to the artwork. They keep a contest where they choose student according to the work that they submit.

In this project, I had to make big square of 4×4 inches. The checkered grid has square of 1×1 inches. The squares have pattern of two muted colors. To create blobs firstly on the sketch paper I had to use ink with brushes to create blobs and see how the brushes are reacting. I had to decide the patterns if they will be opaque and transparent. I chose Ultramarine Blue to be muted for transparency and opaque to be muted for red. For accents, I chose triangles and squares to create a focus. For the color blobs, there had to be color distribution which appeared three times because there are 12 blobs in total.

For the blobs to land up on the checkered was the most confusing part. First, I had to position the blobs originally and from there flip the tracing horizontally. For the 90 degree rotation (right) I had to rotate from the original. For the flopped, I had to flip the tracing paper vertically. My color choices were chosen according to the background. I used tints and secondary colors for the blobs. I didn’t choose dark colors because looking at the background it will empower them. I really like how the transparency of green came out because it’s jumping in and out. One of the students commented that it’s creating spacial effect. The only thing I am not sure of is how the orange opaque and it’s transparency is working and I feel it’s the weakest of all. I was satisfied with tint blue, tone pink, and tint of yellow. Overall, I did good work and made good choices leaving the orange out.

Transparency Project

In this project of transparency, I had to select 3 shapes with 2 layers and 3 shapes with 3 layers of overlapping transparency. My main concern for this project particular was that I ran out of yellow paint and I didn’t know how to manage. There was no time to get yellow for somewhere. Therefore, my choices of color became limited. I had Cadmium Red, Primary Blue, Ultramarine Blue, White, and Ivory Black. I also had to use 2 tints, 2 tones and one shade, along with that primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. So having the color choices, it came out pretty decent which created warmth. I took it as challenge that it might work and  I was not sure how it will come out. But when I presented to the class everyone was very amazed or curious about how did I put it all together. People had questions about how did I manage without yellow. I told them it was a different experience with limited amount of choices. In addition to that I was happy with my work and it did interest students in class because it was done with limited choices of color.

My color collection just started out with picking tint of red. This color seeks a lot of attention and I decided to use this color on the small circles. If you look at the image and small circles it makes your eye move point to point in the composition which is difficult for the 3 layers of overlapping transparency. Especially the square, triangle, and strip which I worked on first. I managed to get the right color between the three colors. The same situation occurred with big circle, wavy line and a strip could have been more transparent. For the two layers transparency, the curve and circle overlapping could’ve been a bit more convincing in terms of transparency as well. Also, the big circle and wavy line overlapping worked really good. The square and small circle had the transparency. Overall, I did decent work on transparency and composing.

In this project, texture to graphic was extremely interesting. What I really like about this project is that textures of any kind can turn into graphics. It creates an illusion in your mind. We needed 20 rubbings of texture that turn into graphics. In order to create figure/ground, we had make plan of 50/50 black and white. That each unit was mounted down and traced the shapes of texture. At the end it surprises because it’s not planned how it is going to come out.

For the 50/50 plan, I had to shade areas black and white. The shaded area for each unit, I chose white background and black shapes. The white area for each unit is black background and white shapes. After deciding the 50/50 plan, I traced the shapes of texture in each unit mounted down. Not only this then flipped the tracing paper over to trace the shapes from the back. On the right, trace the composition down from tracing paper with 4h pencil. After all of this, apply the 50/50 plan for shapes and background for each unit with the sharpies. I followed the plans for 50/50 clearly. When I presented to the class, I had a comment on it that it represents day and night. I was very happy with my project because it’s something that you don’t know how it is going to come out. That was the most curious part of it.