Fences in Las Vegas

Color camouflage

More to come!

Tron Legacy

It takes awhile to load in HD, but here is the Trailer for TRON 2.

Color scheming

Difficulty find the right color selection? Check this out. Color Scheme Designer 3!

Studio shots

Color wheel(s)

Color wheels representing a gamut based on personal preferences.

Goethe on coloured shadows

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In travelling over the Harz in winter, I happened to descend from the Brocken towards evening; the wide slopes extending above and below me, the heath, every insulated tree and projecting rock, and all masses of both, were covered with snow or hoar-frost. The sun was sinking towards the Oder ponds. During the day, owning to the yellowish hue of the snow, shadows tending to violet had already been observable; these might now be pronounced to be decidedly blue, as the illuminated parts exhibited a yellow deepening to orange.

But as the sun at last was about to set, and its rays, greatly mitigated by the thicker vapours, began to diffuse a most beautiful red colour over the whole scene around me, the shadow colour changed to a green, in lightness to be compared to a sea-green, in beauty to the green of the emerald. The appearance became more and more vivid: one might have imagined oneself in a fairy world, for every object had clothed itself in the two vivid and so beautifully harmonising colours, till at last, as the sun went down, the magnificent spectacle was lost in a grey twilight, and by degrees in a clear moon-and-starlight night.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Theory of Colours. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970 (reprinted from the 1840 translation).

Video

Kylie Minogue, Come Into My World (dir. Michel Gondry)

Mid-term portfolios, Art 101

Here's a little of what I wrote to frame the presentation of the portfolios:

What types of works and which pieces give an accurate sense of your development, challenges, and successes over the quarter? Are there benchmark or breakthrough works that inform the way you work now? Is there a narrative that runs through the works? Your portfolio should reveal –in visual terms—your experiences during this time. It may also be helpful to consider the portfolio as a visual equivalent to a self-evaluation; how do the two projects reflect one another? How does the portfolio provide a visual equivalent to the ways that you perhaps describe your work in conversation or writing?

Are there specific tools, techniques, concepts that are emerging in your practice? What content links the pieces you’ve chosen? Are there formal/compositional attributes they share? How are they arranged together? Are there specific subjects that you find yourself returning to, or questioning repeatedly? Do you approach new problems in a systematic way and is your process evident to a viewer?

We've been meeting for over a month now, and looking at ways to integrate drawing into your everyday life; you're making drawings in class, on the phone, following people, at home, and at school. How can a portfolio give a viewer a sense of you interests, and how you work? What does six or seven weeks of production look like?

And, I *THINK* I've posted images of everyone's portfolio, but if you don't see your work here, please let me know and I'll try and find additional images. Thanks.

Colors and Goethe

The last image is from Goethe's Theory of Colours, which is described in detail (with a pretty solid provenance) in the Wikipedia post here. More soon.

Gradient letterforms

As always these are in no particular order, and somehow I didn't get images of all the works presented this day (and some of the ones I did are upside down for some bizarre reason, I think I was really excited and turned the camera around). We'll be looking at these again however, both with the final portfolio and, time permitting, as studies for a text-based project in color.

Mid-term portfolios

In no particular order, here they are:

Gradients

Portraits

Font Projects

for whatever reason, I didn't get pictures of all of the projects during class, but here--in no particular order--is a selection of works from the group. awesome.

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Images from Design Fundamentals 1 at UNLV. It's a project about fences displayed like fences.

Week 8

Here are some hyperlinks to artist projects that may help inform the works we'll be making this coming week:
Aggtelek, Michael Rakowitz, Thomas Hirschhorn, Tom Sachs, Andrea Zittel, Oscar Tuazon, Situationist International, and Francis Alys.

image: Oscar Tuazon, Coming Soon (2002). Courtesy Standard Oslo.