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About Cecily

Cecily Wu was born and raised in New York City. She is new to the Communications Design major at City Tech. Participates in clubs such as Planeteers, NYPIRG, Robotics and the Honors Society. Enjoys working with kids and explore new treasures.

Color Your Selfie Project#4

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The color I chose as my favorite color was a Blue-ish tint: Pantone 2708. Here on the left is my Complementary composition. I choose this Tint Blue because whenever I see light/regular-tone blue, I feel calm and alive at the same time. It reminds me of the bright blue sky on a mid sunny day. It reminds me of the wide blue ocean and it’s salty smelling sea. It reminds me of adventure and fun.

When I search for the different meanings and feelings with the color Blue, many say soothing, peaceful, security, authority. Sometimes sadness, loneliness, depression. Over seas in other cultures, they refer the color of Blue to immortality, good health, love and/or joy.

Here on the left is my Triad composition. It consists of three colors: (INSERT COLOR NAMES). I began to play around with the different colors on different areas of my selfie. I chose purple as my background to give it depth and outline for my body. The darker color gives the photo a bolder and louder look, rather than a softer one like the Complementary composition.

I chose the Pantone 2708 (Tint Blue) as the color a highlight to pop out small details. This gives it character and rugged edge to this photo. The Minty Green next to the purple displays a POP ART genre, from the two contrasting tones of the colors.

The further into the project, the more it became vibrant in tones that I chose. I really enjoyed using bright and dark contrasting colors. It makes the photo POP and become bold and loud. Here on the left is my Analogous composition. I call it Pink limonade. The highlights here are more visible compared to the Triad composition. Here it gives it interesting character in the way where one can see the tiny dots of highlight. From the first all the way into the detail of the necklace and hair.

What I enjoyed the most about this project was that we got to use the computer. I enjoyed the exploration and the experimentation of Adobe Photoshop. An aspect that was difficult was selecting specific areas I wanted to work on/color. That was in the exploration part of the project which was all cool.

Project 3: Selfiemotion

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Here is my final piece.

Above here are drafts I’ve played around with. When starting This project I knew I wanted to create the wavy lines around the body for the movement but I didn’t know which emotion I should choose. I played around with them and ultimately choose surprised.

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In the making of this project, I became very overwhelmed with the goal of the project. With the sand dunes and lettering, I really tried to explore the line work and the movements of the photo. Sand is very hard to capture movements since it is always moving and flowing. Lines are most often looked at as either continuous and non-breakable, causing the frustration while making the project. The pattern of the wool on the other hand seemed to be a little bit easier. Here are my drafts and some finished pieces.

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Here are some of my thumbnails and experimental processes while doing the project. I had some difficulties wih the ink itself, trying to make it appear as one solid color due to the medium I was using. Unfortunately I did not take a picture of my final draft form before adding ink onto the final pieces.

Porject 1 – Lost & Found

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Black background with colors of brown and drips of white paintObvious Image #1

Walls of the dirty subway station

The stains of sea salt drip down

leaving marks from the salty sidewalks

Dirt, layer upon of layer

Leaving the debris thickening

To make the project a little more fun, I wrote a free verse poem of how I thought the organic drips of white salt got to where it is, displayed in the picture above. It is obvious in the top half of the image is on a flat surface. There are no shadows along the white stains that affect the relationship the relationship of the figure to the ground.

Cracks on a flat surfaceObvious Image #2

Layered in Lacquer

Shattered by a mean thump

Did someone bang the table?

Or was it the decay of some cheap paint,

that no one cared for?

I really like this image due to the organic lines that spread out through the whole image. The cracks along the painted surface reminds me of ice beginning to melt after the winter cold. I also did not notice at first, but the two “dot” figures on the left appear to look like eyes; eyes giving a side look of curiosity.

Obvious Image #3

Splat on the ground

Worn away from wonderers

It appears ghostly

This obvious image is in a sort of geometric-organic shape. One can see that it is in a circular shape, but it is also not a perfect circle/oval. This stain on the ground is probably from a piece of gum left on the floor and all the dirt probably did not get removed. The relationship of the figure to ground is very apparent and clear. It does not confuse the eyes with the different shades in the photo.

Ambiguous #1

This image in color appears to be obvious, but I know once I start to transfer this image it will become ambiguous to the eyes due to the binary colors used for the project. The colors used in the project will make the figure to ground relationship very ambiguous to what the figure truly is.

This image shows a left over piece of gum left on the subway grounds. It also looks like a dead butterfly on the ground.

 

Ambiguous #2

This is obviously an ambiguous image due to the relationship of colors. It is 50/50 in both white and black, making the figure here very ambiguous to viewers.