Month: November 2019

Artist Statement Presentation

What is a Artist Statement – An artist statement is a not-too-long series of sentences that describe what you make and why you make it. The very basic elements of an artist statement; what, why, and how.

What is the length of a Artist Statement – 200 Words. Two paragraphs or 150 to 200 words is the best length for a statement that is going to be published. It is long enough to let the viewer learn more about you and your work, but not too long that they can’t follow your story and get distracted.

What type of format … Read More...

Presentations on statements

What do we want to present about each format/statement type?

  • definition: what is it?
  • steps to make your own statement
  • format
  • length
  • audience: who, what level, what understanding?
  • tone and style, vocabulary
  • what is it used for?
  • examples

As a group preparing for the presentation, what is your process?

  1. look at what’s in the annotated bibliography!
  2. decide which sources to use, and for what
  3. start making a list
  4. post your list on the OpenLab
  5. present your ideas!
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Project 4 completed

Discover

For the first part of this project, we had to learn about the color wheel, like what ROYGBV is, and what primary and secondary colors are. The color wheel I made is made up of primary and secondary colors.

Develop

 

This is one of the saturation scales I had to do. It’s primary colors and secondary colors.

This is another saturation scale. It involves tint, which is adding white to a color to make it lighter

Define

This is the atmospheric landscape I created. I created it by using tint, and adding white to purple to make it … Read More...

Biomorphic

noun
a painted, drawn, or sculptured free form or design suggestive in shape of a living organism, especially an ameba or protozoan:

Joan Miró
Woman and Dog in Front of the Moon (Femme et chien devant la lune)
1935, published in 1936

“It was through contact with Surrealist poets and painters in Paris in the 1920s that Joan Miró evolved his visual language of signs. With curvilinear lines and biomorphic shapes, he sought to meld the realm of the unconscious to essential life forms, veering toward abstraction but always maintaining links to humanity, nature, and the cosmos.”… Read More...

Saturation Ranges

Discover

Define

Develop

Deliver

I enjoyed experimenting with saturation ranges and seeing how one color could transition into another. I had trouble with my Saturation scales making it look sloppy, since I didn’t taper my guide tape when I went to paint it would seep through. I think my atmospheric landscape turned out decent, seeing how the darkest purple showed the closer the object and the lightest purple showed the further the object.… Read More...

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