Project 1

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This project was on studying the elements and principles of art. These are the things which an artist uses to make their art and to allow for people to understand the meaning of their art. For this project we had to take these elements which are color, pattern, texture, emphasis, proportion, balance, unity, value, space, shape, movement, line, form and contrast, and take pictures which represent them.  This was an odd project because you had to look at things merely to find a single element of them. It was this that took me  a little longer to do, but I eventually got into the mindset once I really understood the concepts I had to display.

For movement I used my nephew playing with Salem, the black dog, to me this was the obvious to use because he is constantly moving, so what better to represent that very concept.

Next was pattern, which I took a picture of my sister’s favorite Vera Bradley pattern called “Indigo Pop”.

After that is Proportion, for this I took a picture of my nephew and my father. I had my father hold him behind his back to give it a different look than just him holding my nephew in front of him.

Contrast came next, for this I used the main contrasting colors, which are black and white. I took a picture of Salem laying on a piece of white cardboard.

Value is a picture of my General Zod figure that I put in a suit because his black armor would not have showed the variation that the brown and white suit does.

Balance is my brother’s room, he collects Halo figures and has them set up in a balanced matter, so I simply used that.

Texture is a couple of my mom’s crocheted blankets, a couple regular blankets and our smallest dog Macy. I chose these because they all have very different textures to one another.

Colors are my nephews Thomas the Train trains which come in all different colors, so I set them up in a rainbow fashion to show as many colors as possible.

Unity is a picture of the flowers my dad got my mom for Valentine’s Day and they are the only things that look like they belong together in the house, so I just used them.

Space is my Russell Crowe Figure against white cardboard, I figured to just show him with a huge empty background would show space very well.

Form is supposed to represent geometric figures so I just took a picture of one of my mom’s random decorations, I think it is a candle but I could be wrong.

Lines are a picture of the tile in my bathroom which is composed of squares and rectangles which are all completely made up of lines.

Emphasis is a close of my dog, Toby. I focused the camera on his brown nose which is different from his yellow-white fur, so it is especially emphasized in my picture.

And lastly is a picture of the rug in my brother’s room which is fiancée picked out, I made sure to add her bag and the dog crate in there to give the impression of more shapes. That is also why I made sure