Collage Project: Stage 2

The second stage of my collage, where I had to add organic shapes on top of my geometric base. These little guys are what I like to call my primordial ooze creatures! I love how they look, and how they're able to interact with the background while still interupting the pattern. These were really fun to make, and I love how this stage turned out! The third and final stage will be uploaded soon!

Homage to the Rectangle

For my midterm project I researched three fantastic artists, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, and Robert Irwin. Their connection is color. Each artist helped further our understanding of color theory, or used color in innovative ways. In conjunction with a paper and presentation, I had to create my own piece, taking inspiration from these three artists. The title is a play on Josef Albers' series, Homage to the Square. Color has limitless possibilities, and when faced with this project I was overwhelmed and indecisive about what I wanted to do. Since I've used some very bright color schemes in past projects, I wanted to use this project as an opportunity to use mellow, but still powerful colors. I stepped away from the pure primaries, instead using greens, yellow-browns, and greys. I think they go very well together, and I always feel happy and peaceful when I look at this drawing. Enjoy!

Collage Project: Stage 1

This piece has a total of three stages of completion, this being the first. The assignment was to pick a shape -- mine being the triangle -- and create a pattern out of black, white and gray, using at least 2 sizes of your shape. This was a very labor-intensive project; I decided to use paint chips, and each triangle had to be cut and glued to fit into the pattern. I'm very pleased with how this came out; the pattern is called 'Flying Geese.' I love how each triangle retains the integrity of its color while still working together in a larger pattern. There's a lot going on, but it doesn't seem busy to me.
On a side note, after gluing triangles every which way for hours, I had serious perceptual problems.