Prof Ashley Valera | Section D055 | Fall 2024
Theme: Discover, define, and visualize what drives your curiosity while learning about the basic principles of composition to improve your design practice.
Problem: Create four figure-ground compositions (2 ambiguous, 2 stable) using simple black
Credit to Professor Jake Wright
Problem: Create a tile pattern design based the colors, content, and context of a room from film, TV, or other mass media.
Materials: Sketchbook, pencils, inking pens, tracing paper, Adobe illustrator
Concepts:
Problem: Create 4 abstract paintings based on a cropped photograph, simplifying it and painting it with 4 different color palettes; Monochrome, Primary/Secondary, Triadic, and Complementary.
Materials: Sketchbook, pencils, Bristol Board 9×12″, acrylic paints,
Theme: Experiment with lighting and shapes
Problem: Create black and white portraits that convey a mood or feeling using the rule of thirds, stable figure ground and a clear focal point.
Limits: Use a
Theme: Play and experiment with lines, points, and simple shapes.
Problem: Create a black and white, grid-based composition. Inspired by a favorite piece of music, use scale. variation, repetition, pattern, and texture to demonstrate
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