Ways of Seeing – FYLC Fall 2018
First Year Learning Community
The pages 17/18 in the book provides an illustration based on the poem underneath the post-its. The materials used including post-its was inking pens, white paper, and black masking tape. The artist’s concept to represent this word is through two people standing behind an explosion and a dragon to show bravery.
The first spread of the book proves an illustration based on the poem created on the page prior. The materials used were post its, black masking tape, white paper and inking pens. The artist represents this word through a girl who’s not looking back and standing in a field of wheat gazing at the sunset at peace. The first page of the spread says “An uninterrupted view lies” making the first page consist of the sky and wheat.
Page 19 /122 of the book provides an illustration that is based on the story created from blackout poetry. The materials used were inking pens, white/black masking tape, and paperclips. The artist represents this word with umbrellas is based on the concept that when it rains, umbrellas can be seen swaying back and forth as people walk through the city.
I learned a lot throughout this project. When presenting i got many feedback on my portraits and how to fix it, like my painting i should make my face lighter than the other parts of the clothes. For my lowkey portait it the colors of the background were hard to tell if its broad or lowkey. I learned about broad, highkey and lowkey.
In phase 3 i changed my highkey portait to lowkey.
In this project i learned a lot about colors. In phase 1 we started out with a color wheel and slowly progressed to more colors. In phase 2 we were required to paint and mix colors. Mixing the colors to get muted colors confused me a bit because the colors always comes out looking like a dirty green. But after practice and couple tries i got the colors to come out looking right. This project also used software on computers which i enjoyed. In the future i hope there will be more projects like this.
The poster we got was Necros. My group had warm so i used the warm colors like orange. The names we chose were soft quack as the main and spicy flash and shiny scent as the other two.
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