Ambiguous Space Project: Completed Work

Anthony Blackburn

BT Savatdy

Carlos Barrera

Lily King

Mary Roll

Suria Jones

Trey Smith

Here is a mere sample of the excellent work students of Art 3 Summer 2012 have created. Everyone made exceptionally well crafted and designed paintings. This project was inspired by the work of Victor Vasarely.

Ambiguous Space: Day 3

Dana DeLuca

Last day to work on Ambiguous Space Projects in class. Tomorrow we critique the finished work. Dana's piece above has structural dynamics with the calm uniformity of cool monochromatic colors and neutrals. The painting is in progress hence the blue tape on the sides.

Ambiguous Space Project cont.

Kayla Patton

Students continued working on the Ambiguous Space Project. The painting above is unfinished. She is still working out the background area.

Paraline Views: Ambiguous Space

Yaraseb Reyes

Last week we discussed using one and two point linear perspective for creating the illusion of three dimensionality and spatial depth. Today we discussed Paraline Views, specifically oblique views and isometric views. We began with a slide lecture on the work of Victor Vasarely. The project is to create an ambiguous space; one that simultaneously advances and recedes. The drawing above is the preliminary sketch. From here, Yaraseb will choose a color scheme and start painting.

One Point Linear Perspective

Class began with  critique of the Color Schemes project followed by a slide lecture and demonstration on One Point Linear Perspective. Linear perspective establishes the viewer's location and position within the picture plane while creating the illusion of spatial depth. The main things to remember with linear perspective are:
1. Establish the horizon line (eye level).
2. Maintain a fixed point of view.
2. Parallel lines will converge at points located on the horizon line. The "vanishing points" are always located on the horizon line.
3. Objects will appear to diminish in size as they recede towards the horizon line and vanishing points.

COLOR SCHEMES

Mary Roll

Students continued working on their Color Schemes today. The objective for this project is to gain experience in mixing colors and values. In addition, students can witness the affect of color on composition. In particular, observe how the distribution of weight changes as well as the way shapes advance and recede according to temperature and value. The color schemes above are (L to R) monochromatic: warm, tertiary triad, analogous, split-complementary, monochromatic: cool, complementary.

COLOR

Jeanne Buckens

Today we discussed color schemes and the properties of color: hue, intensity, tints and shades, etc. Color Schemes are standard color combinations that create unified compositions. The project is to paint six different color schemes using the same composition. The schemes are monochromatic: warm (pictured), monochromatic: cool, analogous, complementary, split-complementary and a triad. Notice in the painting above how yellow turns to green when mixed with black. This is just one example of having the appearance of multiple colors from one hue.

COLOR

Yesterday, we critiqued the texture collages and discussed the results of the quiz. Afterwards, we made color wheels, value scales and intensity scales.

Texture Collage

Lupe Cornejo

After completing the inventory process of creating textures, students cut up and assembled the pieces into finished compositions. Lupe's piece above is well grounded with the dark values located at the bottom of the composition, transitioning up to the lighter values and patterns. She distributed the dark and light areas in a symmetrical shape with an asymmetrical center. In addition the centralized rectangles imply a swooping diagonal similar to the rhythm of a wave.

Texture

Darlene DuCharme

Today we began our investigation of Texture. First we discussed the types of texture:
 1. Actual: this may include an actual object or refer to the surface of a work of art.
2. Simulated: this is an artist's rendering of an actual surface.
3. Invented: this is a textural design or pattern derived from the artist's imagination.

The first part of this project is to create a textural image by exploring different and various ways of applying the paint. This includes but is not limited to gluing paper, fabric, etc. to the surface before painting or using stencils and layering to block out areas.The example above is following a complementary color scheme of yellow-green and violet. These sections will later be cut up and pasted into a textural collage.