Card Game

Principles and Elements of Design: For this project, I made a matching card game based on smell. I used repetition in the pattern on the back on the card. I also put emphasis on the figures in the center of the cards because they are by themselves. I tried to make them look unified by making the patterns the same, and by making the figures the same size and styles.

Mastery: I think I could have improved on the neatness because the lines aren't as straight as I would like them to be. Also, there are bits of white showing on the edges.

Relate: This project relates to the collage project because with the cards, I created emphasis in the figure because it is isolated and in the center, just like in the collages that I did.

Final Project

Principles and Elements of Design: For this assignment, I painted a scene of a forest and a palace. I used value in the sky that goes from dark blue on the sides to light blue to white in the middle. I also used repetition with the trees and I put emphasis in the center where the palace is because it's isolated from everything else.

Mastery: I think I could have made the trees thicker and I should have made the river more narrow so that it is more realistic.

Relate: This project relates to value portrait project because of the ranging values in the colors.

Nature Art

Principles and Elements of Design: For this project, we used different colored leaves. There is value in the colors that go from light yellow, to orange to red.

Mastery: The leaves weren't strongly connected so they ripped from each other, so I think we could have tried to make the connection stronger.

Relate: This project is similar to the value organic shapes project because we created gradients that range with different colors.

Principles of Elements of Design: In this project, I used lines to create the illusion of depth, and also used a green color to create emphasis on certain parts of the image. Also, value was made by putting the tracing paper on top to make the black paper appear to be gray as well. I used repetition in the lines to create the illusion of depth.


MASTERY: I think I could have added more tracing paper and I also think I should have made the lines get even smaller so that the depth would have been easier to see.

RELATE: This project is similar to the collage because on both of them, one of the main points was to create emphasis.

Collage

Principles and Elements of Design: For this project, we had to use isolation, placement and scale to create emphasis. For the first picture, I used isolation by using complimentary colors (orange and blue). I also used placement by putting the triangles in a diagonal line, pushing the shapes upward. For the second picture, I used scale by putting a giant owl in the center of the picture with a creepy masked figure on top, to emphasize how big the owl actually was. I also used placement by putting the figures in the center.


MASTERY: I think I could have made the backgrounds a little more interesting and I also think that I should have put the gloss medium all over the page, and not in just a few areas.

RELATE: This assignment relates to the foreground/background assignment because I used complimentary colors and focused on the placement of the figures.

Grayscale Portrait

Principles and Elements of Design: For this project, we used value by using the ink and adding water to make tints of the black ink, and adding more ink to make is darker, which gives it the illusion of shadow and light and also gives it the illusion of depth. The shapes are also organic because there are not sharp straight lines, and everything is rounded and curvilinear. 

CRAFT: I tried to not color outside the lines and make everything smooth and neat.

MASTERY: My brushstrokes were a little messy and visible so I think I could have cleaned it up a bit to make the colors more solid. Also, sometimes the ink would fade out and I would try to make the same color but the colors wouldn't match up, but I tried to match the colors as best as I could.

RELATE: Relates to the organic and geometric shapes project both of the projects required that you make value, but instead of adding white, I just added more water to make grey in this one. Also, in this project, there were organic shapes.

Foreground and Background

Principles and Elements: I used space by using complimentary colors to show relation of the foreground to the background. I also used line and made the shapes very geometric because the lines are very sharp and straight, and there are no curves. For color, I just made the two colors purple and yellow, which are complimentary on the color wheel. And for value, I made the yellow much lighter than the purple by adding white and a little bit of blue so that the yellow wouldn't be too bright and vibrant.

CRAFT: For workmanship and attention to detail, I made sure to tape all of the edges and sides so that they lines would be as straight as possible.

MASTERY: I think I could have made the backgrounds a more solid color because some of the brushstrokes are still visible, and I could have cleaned up some of the white spaces in one of them.

 RELATE: I think this assignment is similar to the organic and geometric shapes project because the shapes in this project are very geometric and solid. Also, I changed the colors of the yellow and purple by adding white so that it made a tint of that color as well.