Author: Akina Jiao
Didactic panel
Jingyi Jiao
Title: Ambiguous, stage 2015
Jingyi chose Macbeth by William Shakespeare to be her humument. She creates the compositions by using tools of  ink brush pens: black, dark gray, and light gray, papers from Macbeth’s book pages , and the basic ideas of graphic design principle I. The concept used for the first composition is ambiguous, the compositions of the black color and book paper made up a new figure ground. The second page shows the contrast of volume from dark to light, and also squared the word “stage”. Since Macbeth is a famous stage show, she showed that through both the language and design.
Project 4: Phase 2 (Muted Color Studies 1&2)
My first collage is broad, second one is high key. Took me about two hours to get it done.
Chromatic Gray Studies #1 & #2
This phase took me about 4 hrs to finish. The left one is broad and the right one is narrow low key. The hardest part in this phase is painting, I spend most of the time on painting, but fortunately the brush control getting  little a bit better than the last time.
Project #3: the pitch
Beauty, nature, and entertainments give us good mood, they always beside us, near by our route that we walk passed everyday. Sometimes they might appeared on the street next to your walking route, since you never encountered and then missed out. To avoid this kind of instance keep happening in your life, start using this app today. This app will guide you to walk through a new route, and brings you to the beautiful environmental places you have never been before. The memory from the boring routes you walked everyday will be immediately gone as you used this app for once. Good mood will make your life more colorful.
The five places are waiting you to explore are Commodore Barry Park, Commodore Barry Pool, Golconda Playground, Oxport Playground, and Trinity Park. They are all located on the Nassau St and Flushing Ave, horizontally, near each other, and segment to each other by one or two streets shown on the map vertically. The starting point is from City Tech (New York City College of Technology). Turn left when you get out of City Tech. And then turn right, take a 10 minutes walk on the Tillary Street. Turn left on Duffield street. When you get on the Nassau St, Trinity Park will appears in front of you. Turn right after you explored Trinity Park, keep walking on the Nassau St. The rest of other locations are all on the same street and the same direction, shown on the map horizontally. Including midway break, this journey will taken you about a hour, unless you spend few minutes to take a look inside.
These five locations have the same logo design on the green location signs, sticked on the object next entrance. The logo design is a circle with a maple pattern in it. This logo represents NYC Parks or City of New York Parks & Recreation, means they all under the same control. The season for now is autumn, when people think of autumn, the first thing comes to mind is maple, overlapped with the maple logo.The logo helps you to easier to notice where they are when you get closer to them, so you won’t miss out when you try to find the location by scanning around.
Four of these locations are parks. Commodore Barry Pool is the only place not in the park genre, but it is a small part of Commodore Barry Park. Commodore Barry Pool operates in summer, and the late of spring only. Because it is outdoor, so when the weather turns cold, temperature went down, the water in the pool will be very freezing, to prohibit kids play in there, they closed the pool. Now the time of pool seems stoping, other than bird chirps, you can not hear anything sounds. Before the next summer came, Commodore Barry Pool is the best option place for people need quite, silent, and secluded for themselves. You can find wood bench in anywhere of these five locations, they are all the good places for you to take a break, so people don’t need to worry about the siting place. Commodore Barry Park is the largest park from these five park locations. It also contains a kid playground. The recreational facilities are same as what Golconda Playground and Oxport Playground have. There always are many kids play around, no matter what season. For people have children at home, welcome to bring your kids to these three playgrounds, let them have fun and made new friends there, and when summer came you could bring them to the Commodore Barry Pool.
Other than playgrounds and swimming pool, all of these five locations are good places to view foliage. Season now is autumn, leaves turn to orange, red, and yellow, its interesting to see the different type of leaves with the different patterns, and how they slowly falling down on the ground. Beautiful leaves on the ground makes up a golden trod, looks like a picture of a beautiful landscape. In spring you will view cherry blossoms, so the color you see in the park will be the mix of white and light pink.
You will gain a lot piece of beautiful memories through this short but valuable journey. For experienced beauty, nature, and entertainment, get start using this app now. Enjoy your walk.
secluded
adjective
: hidden from view : private and not used or seen by many people
: placed apart from other people
source:Â http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/secluded
I saw this word when I was looking for the link to use as my bibliography. Its from my third link, on line:” The island was a secluded hospital where several famous patients stayed….”. This sentence tells most patients stayed in secluded hospital, they need a quite surrounding.
Project #3: (Annotated Bibliography)
link1 : http://travel.amerikanki.com/most-peaceful-countries-in-the-world/
It tells the 20 most peaceful countries in the world 2015 to travelers who would like to travel to the countries with peace and unique natural.
link2 : Â https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/new-york/upstate/the-15-most-beautiful-places-in-new-york-you-didn-t-know-existed
This site tells you the most beautiful places in New York you didn’t know exist. They have descriptions with beautiful photos of nature.
link3 :Â http://mic.com/articles/48097/50-overlooked-but-beautiful-places-to-visit-in-new-york-city#.aj4AlHipY
This site gives 50 overlooked but beautiful places to visit in New York City. Kind of similar to link 2, but this site is more generalized.
link4 :Â https://foursquare.com/top-places/brooklyn/best-places-scenic-views
This site gives the 15 best places with scenic views in Brooklyn. With the theme of beauty.
link5 :Â https://foursquare.com/top-places/brooklyn/best-places-quiet
This site gives the 15 best quiet places in Brooklyn. Contains nature, beauty, silent, and environment.
Sentiment
noun
: an attitude or opinion
: feelings of love, sympathy, kindness, etc.
Source:Â http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sentiment
I found this word in reading excerpt: “The Happiest and Saddest Places in New York City, According to Twitter”by Ben Merchant. This word can be found in the sentence ” For insance, three cemeteries—Palisades, Weehawken, and Holy Cross—attracted among the strongest Twitter sentiment on the list.” Sentiment can also be mood, when you describe about your feeling you can use either mood or sentiment, no difference.
Eng. Project #3 – The Route
No exception for you or me, beautiful things, nature, environment, and fresh air have given all of us good mood. This app will guide you to walk through a new route, and takes you to the beautiful environmental places that you have never been before. The memory from the boring route you walked everyday will be immediately gone since you used this app for once. Good mood will turn your life more colorful. For Experiencing better life, mood, nature, beautiful things, environment, and fresh air, start using this app right now.
The five new places are waiting you to explore today are Commodore Barry park, Commodore Barry Pool, Golconda Playground, Oxport playground, and Trinity park. They are all located on the Nassau St and Flushing Ave, horizontally, near each other, and segment to each other by one or two streets shown on the map vertically. They have the same logo, a design of a circle and a maple pattern inside of it. This logo represents NYC Parks or City of New York Parks & Recreation, means they are all under controlling by the New York City Department of Park & Recreation. The season for now is autumn, when people think of autumn, the first thing comes to mind is maple, consistent with the maple logo. The logo helps you to easier to notice where they are when you get close to them, so you won’s miss it when trying to find the location by looking around. Each time you get to a target location, you can take a few minutes to explorer inside and or just move to the next location.
The starting place is from City Tech (New York City College of Technology) Including midway break, this journey will taken you about a hour.
Turn left when you get out from City Tech.
And then turn right, take a 10 minutes walk on the Tillary Street.
Turn left on Duffield street.
When you get on the Nassau St, Trinity Park is in front of you. Don’t miss it.
Turn right after you explored Trinity Park, keep walking on the Nassau St. The rest of other locations are all on the same street and the same direction, horizontally. Don’t missed up maple logo. Enjoy your walk.
Value-Added Portrait: Phase 3+Phase 4
It took me about a hour to finish everything. The focus point on my broad-range painting is the most lightest part of two pieces of collage, you can easily find it out. And the focus point on my narrow-range is the curves with darker colors. The most difficult part of this project for me is painting. The last time I used brush was in elementary school, I used to use graphic tablet to draw and paint on laptops, so when I paint with brush, it didn’t work as I imagined, a pretty hard challenge for me. Other steps are fine, I enjoyed to work on them, easily accomplished. This project helps me to realize I’m better as doing digital art than physical art which is painting. I spend more time to paint on bristle than making a collage on mac. Learn to paint physically is one thing I have to improve on in the future, I hope next time when I worked on the painting it will done as I imagined.
narrow-range
Broad-range
