[Jenna Spevack]

Add a reply to this topic that de­scribes the view from a win­dow in your home. Focus on de­scrib­ing the shapes you see and their re­la­tion­ship to each other. Ig­nore every­thing ex­cept what you see in­side the bound­aries of the win­dow frame.

This de­scrip­tion should also be writ­ten in your Cre­ative Process Book.
See http://​profspevack.​com/​designcolor/​2012/​08/​class-​1 for de­tailed in­struc­tions.

[Vicky Marie Carrillo]

I fi­nally got every­thing work­ing! I know we did this in class but I fig­ure to reply to this topic any­way to fa­mil­iar­ize my­self with the site. I ac­tu­ally took a bet­ter look out of my win­dow yes­ter­day after going home and tried to look at it in shapes like you in­structed. I no­ticed then that view is re­ally plain, when you think about it. Most of what I see is ba­si­cally dressed up rec­tan­gles and squares, re­ally. The rooftops I see, the houses that I catch while look­ing through the al­ley­way across from me, win­dows, etc… All are re­ally bor­ing, de­tailed boxes! Very mo­not­o­nous to draw, but it has to be done I guess :s

[Yuliya Bas]

I al­ways look out of my win­dow, but never pay much at­ten­tion to what I’m look­ing at. There’s my neigh­bor’s rounded metal gate, a hor­rific brick-gate/con­trap­tion and my house’s wooden fence. Every house has it’s own bound­ary where it’s box­ing in cars, plants and what­not. There’s also the ir­reg­u­lar shape of the tree and that blocks most of my view. I also have a good view of my bal­cony- the metal sup­port­ing the bal­cony’s roof makes great neg­a­tive space to view the dri­ve­way.

[ANDREWmorocho]

I ac­tu­ally for­got that I had a pineap­ple plant right on my win­dow, so it makes the view look fun with this layer. The safety bars on my win­dow are both par­al­lel and per­pen­dic­u­lar to the out­lines of every­thing in the back­ground. The back­ground con­sists of a brick wall and a fire es­cape. They both match in red/bur­gundy color pat­terns. There is also a tree on the first third of the view, as well as the ac­tual pineap­ple plant. The sun di­rectly hits the pineap­ple plant & parts of the tree, lead­ing my eyes to focus on them. The tree is slant­ing north west, form­ing tri­an­gles with the safety gate. It’s also form­ing small di­a­monds with its branches and leaves. I live on the fifth floor, so I can also see the top of the build­ing (hor­i­zon­tal line) and parts of the sky.

[Jessica]

Who knew that look­ing out­side your win­dow can ac­tu­ally make a dif­fer­ence on see­ing things. For me this was a f first. After look­ing out­side my very own .Win­dow iv came across a lot but look­ing very closely like you have asked us to look at any pat­terns such as shapes, iv no­ticed that my whole back yard is made up of shapes lines and very cre­ative fig­ures. I never re­ally no­ticed until yes­ter­day that my back yard
Straight but it’s ac­tu­ally slanted. I can see my neigh­bors trees and in back an­other house . I had a great time doing this .

[Lok Tung(Wanda) Tsang]

I live in the base­ment and all i have is a small lit­tle win­dow, so i went up­stairs to the sec­ond floor and look out of the win­dow from my aunt’s room in­stead. I never thought that it would be so dif­fer­ent. When i look out the win­dow, the first thing i see is a dark green roof. It’s old and rusty. Then i see a dri­ve­way be­tween two house. The house on the left side re­ally catch my at­ten­tion. It’s a dark red house. The white stairs are on the mid­dle of the house and there are some fresh grass grow­ing on both side of the stairs. It looks gor­geous.

[LimmeruBar]

fi­nally i am in on this thing okay so my win­dow the i drew from has not change much in the years i have been around there was one big tree that i love to look at but it got sick had to be cut down but its has not change at sens 87 fist mem­o­ries was the tree i like my view its nice but i wish there was more to it some­times on a good day where the sun comes down just right it can be a very beau­ti­ful view so yaaayyyy i am on

[Debrah Jinnelle Aponte]

When look­ing out my win­dow. You can’t re­ally see much un­less you re­ally stick your head out the win­dow. From my win­dow you can see this tree. It has been there for many years. It used to be full of life with big green leaves, it had life. Now its dying out, the tree now is dull and grey. When you touch it, it feels hol­low and pe­ices fall off every­day. You also see The street, it’s a two way street with a lit­tle what every­one calls an “Is­land”. It’s full of grass and there are a cou­ple of lit­tle trees as well. You can al­ways see all the other beau­ti­ful houses, some which have been re­built.
From the point of view i was look­ing at to draw my thumb­nails you couldn’t see much, be­cause of the blurred win­dow sheets that my mother put so noone can see in from out­side. The only thing you could’ve seen was the street and my moth­ers car. In my thumb­nails you would only see a car drawn. I re­ally wish that my mother would have never put that blurred sheet on the win­dow. I be­lieve that it could’ve been such a beau­ti­ful view with­out it.

[Errol]

The view out of my win­dow has a great view of the neigh­bor­hood. I can see the new build­ings being built as the old rem­nants are being torn down. The view looks good when the sun­sets and you can see the clock tower which is the un­of­fi­cial land­mark of down­town Brook­lyn which rep­re­sents the start of it. I am afraid though that with all this ren­o­va­tion even­tu­ally they will block out my great view.

[Justyn]

When I look through my win­dow I see so much! I see a court­yard in the shape of a cir­cle di­vided into four quar­ter cir­cles by walk­ways. In the cen­ter of the cir­cle there is a flag­pole. I see the back­sides of three build­ings that guard the court­yard and its trees from the rest of the world. There are sev­eral light posts that over­look the court­yard and the tall trees sur­round and over­look the court­yard as well. In the view from the win­dow, you can also see a play­ground that is ob­scured by the sur­round­ing trees.

[JettoMaku]

Hah! I fi­nally got Open Lab to work >__< When I look be­yond my win­dow, I see the back­yard of houses. I see 2 back­yards, in fact . The one on the left had a garage and both of the roofs of the garage and house are grey. The house on the right had an or­ange roof. the I see big trees. And I see the green fire es­cape and metal stairs lead­ing up and down. And lastly I see my apart­ment neigh­bors’s win­dows.

[rodney j willis]

Hey i fi­nally was able to get ac­cess to my email ad­dress,This is Rod­ney.

As many times as i looked out my win­dow,i never payed at­ten­tion to the shapes and par­tic­u­lar build­ings around the area i live or mon­u­ments that stand out when i look out the win­dow.Not be­cause ,i am not ob­ser­vant but after 9/11 fre­quent ter­ror threat,s oc­cured.Ter­ror­ist threat­ened to blow up big build­ings as well as other land­marks,so every­one who lived within the area was told not to be near the win­dow,since the day of no­tice,it prac­ti­cally stuck with me.​One land mark that stands in my sight view or vi­sion when i look out the win­dow is the brook­lyn bridge.

The brook­lyn bridge is a square pil­lar that is con­nected hor­i­zon­tally with the length of 970 feet,which is being sur­rounded by square build­ings who big enough to blind trees and make thing such as a long rec­tan­gu­lar path­way called the fdr stand out.​Other than this,there is noth­ing that stands out around or within the frame or view of my sight and win­dow,

[Xuxa Robinson]

It’s a mir­a­cle (: I fi­nally made it on here.

When I look out my win­dow, every­thing is the same.

There are some crick­ets chirp­ing in­side thick grasses and flow­ers of my fa­ther’s gar­den. They are pro­tected by white fenc­ing that re­sides be­neath my win­dowsill, some­thing that no one else has. Neigh­bors hide in brick­houses and re­main in brick fenc­ing, too old and tired to be both­ered with the el­e­gance my grand­mother feels is es­sen­tial.The flow­ers that sur­round a foun­tain had once been burst­ing of col­ors. Cool ones like pur­ple and blue were in plen­ti­ful bushels, as they nat­u­rally grew. And the small, but beau­ti­ful and warm sun­set and golden ones ob­su­cred by peo­ple who walked by. But, un­for­tu­nately, their lives had been cut short from being over­wa­tered by by fa­ther and now wilt into shades of au­tumn.

I can see the “Bub­ble Gum” tree lean­ing to the right, filled with ten­der seeds. Al­though the leaves hide them well, I be­lieve that it is a small ginko tree. Be­fore Au­tumn ends, some­one will come and bas­kets and brooms will be clut­tered around it and a car be­side it will block my fa­ther’s fa­vorite park­ing space in­stead of my mother’s run down mini­van.

[Jenna Spevack]

Fine work, all. Es­pe­cially en­joyed the com­ments from those who re­ally took the time to see and ob­serve a view that they may have not re­ally “seen” be­fore, but that which they view every day. The pur­pose of this ex­er­cise is to learn how to see be­yond the ob­vi­ous and no­tice all the vi­sual, aural (sound), and tac­tile (touch­able) el­e­ments we come in con­tact with every day. Great work!