The Coolest of the Cool Look for the Lemon Tree…

This picture leaves me very very curious as to what it is that has jumped into the middle of the water or possibly what has jumped out of the water. When you use tension you are bringing together two things that could be potentially complete opposites. In this image the water is calm and clear when it is struck with a blast whether something came out of it, or came into it. This breaks the calm and causes tension to appear in the image. If this were just a picture of a calm body of water it wouldn’t have as much visual fighting as this image has. And even the same if this was just an image of an explosion. The fact that the two are coexisting leave you questioning why? what? and how? You want to know what all is going on in this image and you are left unknowing. This is a great example of tension in a picture.

Overlapping is a technique that almost all artists use in their imagery. When you overlap somthing you cause your audience to assume or guess that something continues behind it or that there is something back there. In the image above there are numerous times where the knife, bread, and jif jar overlap eachother to create almost a pile like composition. When the jif jar is above two pieces of bread your mind does not believe that the bread must be cut to fit the jar next to it, but believes the the jar is actually laying on top of the two pieces. This whole picture just kinda gives me that urge to walk into the kitchen and make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. As simple designed as this picture is, it still gives your mind that idea that you should probably go and make some peanut butter and jelly sandwichs, so go ahead and do so. =D

To juxtapose is to place something either in or on something else in order to show a comparison. In this image I like how the photographer used juxtaposition to inclue not only the ceramic piece on the wall but also the broken piece smashed onto the ground. Without the broken piece on the bottom the piece could seem incomplete. Yes, the top half looks as if something was broken off of it, but without the bottom half of the image to confirm that something was broken, would you care? Without either piece the composition would be utterly boring and you would feel as if you were missing half of the image or information. With juxtaposion you are complleteling an image without overly doing so. Usually the other half is neccessary to make the picture make more sense.  Unless you are going for the whole think outside of the box, juxtoposition could be very helpful to you.

“I shall call you fishy
and you shall be mine,
and you shall be my fishy…”

For our part two of our juxtapose assignment I chose to use the images of a fish, a puzzle piece, and a camera. Each in their own meanings represent who I am as a person. My memory sometimes can be just as terrible as a goldfish‘s when it comes to remembering people and dates in time. I absolutely love taking pictures and seeing all the different ways something could be captured in a single frame or two. I have the believe in life that life is one ongoing puzzle. You will find and lose pieces the further you go and that is why I chose a puzzle piece to use also.

I really like how the fish on the right is a dominant figure and how there is a puzzle slightly cut into it. It really makes your eye move from black to white and back again. I also love how i cut the highlights into the fins. However, my absolute favorite part of the whole composition would have to be the bottom left corner. I really like how everything is laid out. I am glad I changed the fish in the bottom to be white as opposed to be only outlined in white. It really gives the fish character and offset it on the puzzle piece. If you look closer at the picture you will see that there is also a fish that has been turned into a puzzle piece where it looks like a fish is about to be eaten by it. I really liked the play on creatures with that portion of the composition.

Okay, so I really like this picture a lot. Part of the reason is because I feel like I should be making carmel candied apples, and for some reason the fact that the apples are all lined up perfectly is aesthetically pleasing to me. In this image, the use of repetition causes your eyes to move back into the image by way of rows of apples. It appears that the apples on the right are perfectly lined up and slowly the apples on the left break out from perfect formation. However, this does not take away the effectivness of the repetition in the image, but only adds to the ways to move your eyes around the page. Doesn’t this image just make you feel like you should go and candy some apples? I know that i feel the need to do so. =]

When it comes to dominance there can be so many examples that you could use. In class, we were told to visualize it like an itty bitty french fry compared to a colossal dump truck. When I think dominance, I always get the idea of an elephant holding an itty bitty mouse. Which, can show dominance, and be adorable. I like this picture because it causes your eye to move around it. The elephant takes up more than half of the page so you can clearly tell that it is the dominant creature in the picture. However, as much of space that the elephant takes up, you are reminded once you follow his trunk around that there is another creature in this picture, the mouse. The mouse takes almost an accent position to this picture. When you use dominance in a picture you can sometimes force the audience to look at that image first before moving on
to the rest of your picture.

Sculpture
by
Dan Heller

This sculpture is a very good example of contrast in a piece of art work. The way that the light plays on the stone creates these beautiful shadows and high lights. These contrasting shapes make the viewer’s eye scope around the sculpture with not just one focal point. I find this sculpture to be very flowing and doesn’t cause you to feel jolted when you look at it. The fact that there are dark shadows and light highlights makes it almost seem as if the person is real and in mourning. If the sculpture were to be, say, a relief, I don’t believe you would get the same effect that it does now. The light and darks playing on the sculpture really brings a round look to it. I really like the fact that this is a grave marker and not just a piece off a building or wall. This person must have really meant something special to receive such a beautiful grave marker.

Why Hello there! My name is…

Alyssa
Danielle
Overmier

…and I hail from a small town called Liberty Cetner, OH. I am the oldest in my family and the first in my family to be going to college. I am a freshman at Bowling Green State University with an intended major of Art Education-2D Studies, and I could not be happier. All my life I have wanted to be a teacher. I love people and I get along with everyone and anyone. It is very rare that I am ever shy around people and because of that it is very easy for me to make new friends.

I grew up in a creative family environment, and have been expressing my love for art for as long as I can remember. When I was little, I was often found running into my grandma’s house just to find my drawer full of markers and coloring books. I would spend hours upon hours coloring and drawing pictures. There wasn’t much question in my mind about how much I loved art. It came easy to me and I loved sitting down and redrawing what I had seen. In classes, my teachers would push me to do better and to better myself and I loved the challenges. In my high school I was voted the “Outstanding Senior Artist for 2008”.

My favorite medium of art would have to be my colored pencils. I had never really gotten into drawing with colored pencils until my junior year in High School. I love the way that the colors can flow together and blend and how you can make something so realistic out of strange colors. With all of my drawings I loved being able to go outside and find my own sources. While finding pictures online are nice to draw, it makes it a little bit more personal when you’re drawing a flower you took a picture of that you found in a garden. My biggest pet peeve in drawing was always drawing faces because I feared I would mess up someone’s nose or teeth. Which is why when I drew a face it was usually my own, and it could be called an artistic “twist”.

I am someone who prides themselves on being a little bit strange and I would never change that for the world. It is the quirks in your life that make you who you are and you should never change that about yourself. Being different is usually not an utterly terrible thing,

and I love that about myself.