Value-Added Portraits: Phase 3 – Develop
Value-Added Portraits: Phase 1 – Discover
In these 3 photos, the lowkey is the darkest, it has a darker background and mainly focuses on the hand. It was taken at home with my mouse. The highkey has a lighter background and also focuses on the hand. The broad photo was taken in the class computer desks on a white keyboard as the background. Each of these creates a story of the hand working on a computer.
Value-Added Portraits: Phase 2 – Define
The right photo is the broad, you can see the broad range value because you can see the dark focus point from the white background. The focus point in the broad image is the nose.
The left i tried to make a high key type of photo that shows the dark focus on the figure which is the entire left side of the photo with a lighter background. But the main focus point is the eyes.
Hokum
noun
1. out-and-out nonsense; bunkum
– Dictionary.com
Bunkum: foolish talk/nonsense
I found this word in the article The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01 ; Lost and Found, in the sentence “That Canal Street used to be a canal. That Bryant Park used to be a reservoir. It’s all hokum. I’ve been to Canal Street, and the only time I ever saw a river flow through it was during the last water-main explosion.”
In this excerpt the author is trying to say how the “facts” about New York are just non sense or like foolish talk. To somebody that has never seen or experienced this history or facts about New York, basically all they’re listening to is hokum.
Value-Added Portraits: Phase 4 – Deliver
I’ve learn a lot about tone in color during this project. How to focus on something in a picture just by using light and dark tone. I’m not really used to painting so this is a new experience for me. This is one of the Projects I enjoyed the most because I’ve see art a lot different then I use to.
Links:
Phase 1:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/rosenspevackfylcf18/2018/11/05/value-added-portraits-phase-1-5/
Phase 2:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/rosenspevackfylcf18/2018/11/05/phase-2-define-completed-collages-2/
Phase 3:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/rosenspevackfylcf18/2018/11/12/value-added-portraits-phase-3-3/
Value-Added Portraits: Phase 3
This is my Narrow collage. This version is done digitally on Photoshop.
This is my broad collage.
Hours:
This One took about an Hour to make
Saturation Studies: Phase 1
The item I chose to substitute with the color wheel was sweets/desserts. I spent the last 15 minutes of the class making this and I successfully finished.
Value-Added Portraits: Phase 4 – Deliver
I learned how to create a gradient out of grayscale and how different materials introduced in a composition can catch one’s attention even though it is not the artist’s intention. I feel as if I could have painted the collage better if I tried the Grid Method, however, I was constrained by time and the space wasn’t wide enough for detail. I learned that painting is hard but it isn’t impossible, it took me several tries of fixing the tone and ruining the image in the process. I’ll apply this patience and persistence to the next project. I took the advice of attempting to add detail to the eyes with a finer brush and made the surrounding area around the eyes darker.
Null
Adjective
Definition: 1. without value, effect, consequence, or significance.
2. being or amounting to nothing; nil; lacking; nonexistent.
Origin: 1555–65; < Latin nūllus, equivalent to n(e) not + ūllus any.
Antagonism
Noun
Definition: 1. an active hostility or opposition, as between unfriendly or conflicting groups. 2. an opposing force, principle, or tendency. 3. Physiology . an opposing action, as by one muscle in relation to another. 4. Biochemistry , Pharmacology . the opposing action of substances, as drugs, that when taken together decrease the effectiveness of at least one of them (contrasted with synergism). 5. Ecology: a relationship between two species of organisms in which the individuals of each species adversely affect the other, as in competition. The inhibition of the growth of one type of organism by a different type that is competing for the same ecological niche.
Origin: 1835–40; (< French antagonisme ) < Greek antagṓnisma. See antagonize, -ism
