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This is a painting by Gino Severini. When I first looked at the painting I thought about partying and going out having fun, after reading the Title Festival Montmartre, I thought wow he really did a good job with the colors and the busyness of the painting, to make you feel like it's a party or festival. The reason I like this painting is because who doesn't like to have fun with friends, like at a party or festival.

Craft: He used oil paints on a canvas.

Composition: He made the background black, so your eye automatically focus on the commotion in the center. He uses bright colors and dark colors, but the bright color over power the painting. It's hard to make out what exactly it is, but it gives you a fun and exciting feel, like a festival would.

Concept: It's supposed to give you the feel of the night life, people walking around, the busyness, having a good time.

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This painting was mad by Miendert Hobbema.I enjoy this painting very much, I like it because, living in the city your whole life can get a little hectic. Don't get me wrong I love the city, but sometimes it's nice to get away. This painting does exactly that. My friend has a cottage in Wisconsin right on the water, which we go to a lot during the summer. This painting reminded me of that. The painting expresses how nature is relaxing.

Craft: Since I'm not to familiar with painting I'm not to sure how he exactly did it. I can for sure say he used oil paints on a canvas. Trying to record this landscape on the canvas.

Composition: Well the watermill isn't the biggest object in the painting, but it's what catches your eye first, because the the red that is applied to the roof. Next you see this beautiful, but dramatic tree, which is the biggest object of the painting. On the bottom half of the painting is the water that runs the mill.

Concept: This mill was one of his favorite subject during the 1660's. Since he liked this area so much I think it's because the landscape is so gorgeous, but then also you see this man made building in the middle of the landscape.

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Craft: When I was tweaking it, I smoothed out the circular shapes. Like the rim and the lace holes, I also used the gradients tool on the backboard, also on the lace holes to make it look shinier. As the professor suggested I added some clouds to the background to give it a background, not only a gray color. I used the feather tool on the clouds so they can fade into the gray. I like how that turned out.

Composition: When I used the gradient tool on the backboard, I made it lighter on the bottom, because the light from the camera hit the bottom of the backboard. I place a couple of clouds throughout the picture to show that that is all sky behind the hoop.

Craft: Its shoes in a basketball rim. Which is trying to say abandonment, which people haven't been playing on this playground.


Vanished: With this illustration I just filled in everything with white and I gave it a thick Charcoal stroke. To make it look like a sketching. Lastly I filled in the background black. I choose only the two colors to give it that plan and sketch look to it. I call it Vanished.

Thunder: This being my favorite reproduction, I changed the background to a purple. Than I used the pen to make the thunder bolts. To give it more light I used the gradient on the purple background mixing it with a white. So the white part of the gradient is right in the middle of the thunder. I changed the backboard, because the thunder would reflect off the metal board. I believe this illustration made my concept stronger, because this hoop and shoes don't look old and rusty to give it that abandonment. So the thunder does because it will keep the kids off the court. I call this one Thunder!

High Hoops: With this one I changed the composition the most. I just wanted to make it fun and colorful. I didn't use a specific color scheme. I just used bright colors. When it came to the shoes I wanted to make them the same but different at the same time, so I just did everything opposite of the other shoes. For example the sole of the bottom shoe is orange so for the top shoe I made it orange. I call this one High Hoops

Week 10

Craft: First I have to change the back rounds to be the same. But I think most of my changes will come in the composition.

Composition: I want to change the format of my title and the season names by each illustration. Then make more negative space on the second page. Also on the third page the illustration have to be a little smaller.

Concept: It will stay the same.

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Craft: First I placed all my illustrations on the page. After this I started arranging the illustrations. On the first page I put the illustration that intertwines the others. Then I put the title above that, and the quote on the side of the first page. On the second page I put the fall and spring illustrations together and in between that is were I started my text. On the third page I put winter and summer together with no text. On the final page I put the rest of the text. Next to each illustration I put the name of the season.

Composition: I put the illustration with all the seasons on the first page to give an idea what this article will be about. Then I put spring and fall on the same page because they are opposite each other. I did the same with winter and summer. I put the name of the seasons at about eighty degrees on the side of each illustration. To give it repetition. On each page I put a very light blue as the back round, like the color of the sky on a cloudless day.

Concept: No matter what it looks like outside, we as humans have to go about our day. We must get ready and go to school or maybe work. We live life as a routine day in and day out. Maybe once in a while we'll go out of our norm.

Week 8

Craft:

The first decision I had to make was what object I want to illustrate. I found an iron in the classroom. So now I had to illustrate it, with a style that appealed to me. I found a nice brush stroke, dry brush 7, which gave it a waxy look, hence the name of my style waxy. So I used lines to replicate the iron in different positions. I illustrated three that had similar colors as the actual colors. Then the next two I changed up the colors, I just picked random colors, not having a meaning to the colors. I wasn’t too happy with the work.

After our class critique the professor Peck suggested that we put our objects in space. So I drew an outline of an ironing board using the dry brush and then I used the pen tool to fill in those outlines made with the dry brush stroke. The rest of the page was white so I wanted to make it look as if it were in a room. So I added a window to the illustration and the rest of the page was a wall. The window is an older window that has wooden dividers; also I used the transparency tool, to make it look like glass. For the dividers I used the same brush stroke. On the side of the window I added curtains, using dry brush and filling it in with the pen tool. Outside the window I made it obvious what season it was.

For each scene outside the window I used the dry brush and if there was a lot of space I filled it in with the pen tool, with a color that has low contrast to the stroke. On my fifth illustration I used the same style the dry brush and the pen fill in where ever I thought it look good. Each picture is very similar, but also very different. But they all had the same rules. Dry brush 7 and the pen tool filling it in with a low contrast color. The colors of the iron inside the home are supposed to make you feel how it is outside. For the iron and the scenes outside the used the seasons colors.

Composition:

I put the iron on the ironing board, but I only illustrated a part of the board. So I can so that it’s in a room in some home. Not just on an iron on a board who knows where. So I add a window and also adding a wall. In two illustrations you can see mostly only the window and barely a wall. But in the other two half is the window and the other half is a wall. In these two illustrations I added a blazer that is hanging on a hook. Showing that some one is getting reading to go somewhere. Through the window you can see that it is a different season.

In the winter I illustrated a tree that is leafless and snow that has collecting on the branches, indicating that its winter. In the spring there is flowers on the window ceil and the tree fairly green, with a sun peeking through the clouds. During the summer the tree is nice and green and a full sun behind the tree. For the fall the leaves of the tree are brown and orange, showing the fall season. The ironer’s colors replicate the colors of that season. I was consistent with the tree to show that it’s in the same room.

Since the project couldn’t be less then five illustrations I had to think of something that flowed with my seasons theme and had to be done with my rules. So I intertwined all four illustrations. So I did a close up of the window, in the four sections of the window, which are made by the dividers, I made something to emphases the season of the year. Like a snowman, dead leafs, a sun with sunglasses and flowers. Also I place the iron in the middle of the illustration to put all four together into one.

Concept:

This picture is supposed to show the wonders of each season, but also as an adult no matter what season, how much snow, rain, or sun there is they have to get up for work and do the same routine almost everyday get up for work eat, wash yourself, iron your clothes and go to work. Come home eat watch TV, maybe read a book nothing too different from previous days, and do it all again tomorrow.