Intro to Visual Practice / Fall 2010

In class we have been talking a lot about how the effects of using contrasting colors.  In my composition, I chose to position a dark red vase against a blue-green background and play around with the reflection from the flash of my camera when I photographed the object.  After several different positionings of the vase and the blanket, I decided to choose the image of the vase lying on its side against a blanket I hung against a fireplace.  I like how the reflection makes the inside of the vase seem obscure and unknown, while the outside is still clearly defined and visible.  I used the macro setting on my digital camera to create this piece.

In class we have been talking a lot about how the effects of using contrasting colors.  In my composition, I chose to position a dark red vase against a blue-green background and play around with the reflection from the flash of my camera when I photographed the object.  After several different positionings of the vase and the blanket, I decided to choose the image of the vase lying on its side against a blanket I hung against a fireplace.  I like how the reflection makes the inside of the vase seem obscure and unknown, while the outside is still clearly defined and visible.  I used the macro setting on my digital camera to create this piece.

"Accidental Self-Portrait"

I came across this burrow of an art gallery/studio while I was in Italy. I took a picture of it and only when I uploaded it onto my computer did I realize that my reflection obscured the view. I came to really like the image, albeit accidental, because of the layers of images. The way the different sized paintings break up the space into different parts brings to attention to depth – and the fact that we see two opposite perspectives (the view in front of and behind the camera), makes it seem quasi cubist.

Dayna’s Light (Man and a Woman)

Variable Emotion

Light Foot

I originally took this picture of Cherub’s feet in the Gardens a couple of months ago. I stuck it in my sketchbook and one day when I was flipping through it, I came across it again. I was sitting at my desk and a ray of light shone on the image. I decided to take a picture of the photograph. I tried to manipulate the light to form a new composition, to reinvent the photograph.

I saw this in Richmond and I thought this would be a cool examination of light in a mirror as well as ntural light as opposed to the artificial light that shines on this at night.

What I was working with in this project was primarily the creation of images of light and color, and messing with our recording of those images. I initially did a google image search for “light and color”, and found one that I liked. I edited it in photoshop until it was no longer so much about light, but mainly color. This image is on my computer screen in the top left corner of the composition. I then saved this to my flash drive, which I plugged into my computer. I set up my phone against the computer, shining a light, and took a picture of the flash drive’s red light, its reflection against the wall, my phone’s light, and the blue light’s of my computer. I then used my phone to take a picture of this picture with my camera aimed at the same general area of my laptop.

The image on the camera actually includes light generated by my phone at two different times, the two whiter lights on the screen. The larger, more yellow one is produced by the flash when taking the picture. This image is, basically, about the creation of my image. I took an image of light and color, modified it, transported it, and took a picture of a picture of the light involved in this process.

Light Composition of a cat peering through the dark.

I created my composition using colored pencil.

A souvenir of the Eiffel Tower

Serena Qiu

A short pdf matching rgb and cmy primaries against neutral backgrounds.

Color Light Experimentation

four elephant keychains hanging over lamp, manipulated contrast/light settings on photoshop

Sunhay You

Light composition with cups and desk lamp

by Dayna Uyeda

This project was my first attempt at using Photoshop. The initial picture I took (top right) is an interesting play of shadows and color on the pathway outside of my dorm. All subsequent images in this project are manipulations through Photoshop. I played with complementary colors and brightness/darkness to  highlight different shadows and portions of the original sidewalk image.

COLOR WORK

Josef Albers and the Relational Aspect of Color

1. Make two areas of the same color look different by altering the background color and tone (20 min)

2. From swatches or samples chose 4 within a color family (similar hue) and place within a composition using them a complementary color ( 20 min)

DRAWING MACHINE (50 MIN)

Use any materials and ideas you brought and continue work on your drawing machine. IMPORTANT: ask all your questions in class and make sure to talk to instructors about anything that could be helpful. We will have a critique in smaller groups for the finished version of your machine the following week (9/28). Make sure to bring your machine, and ALWAYS BRING YOUR CAMERA FROM NOW ON.

For the full assignment description, see:

http://sites.duke.edu/artsvis54_01_f2010/2010/09/17/assignments-due-927/

INTRODUCTION TO BLOGGING

1. How to safe image files and other media in the proper format for online publication

(72 dpi, websafe color, jpg, png, gif, etc) – some blogging software has problems with pdf

2. Log in at the left column of our blog:

http://sites.duke.edu/artsvis54_01_f2010

Go to left side of dashboard, and add or edit posts. Always click publish or update on upper right after making your changes or it won’t save them.

Upload your Light & Color Composition as a 72 dpi jpg. Make sure to check off in the box on the bottom right the category each post belongs to, in this case Light & Color Composition.

If you are finished, continue with uploading to blog resized versions (72 dpi) of your Unlikely Charts or Diagrams)

From now on, you can always post entries under ‘Book of Notice’ category for your book of notice category (a short text, idea, image, video, links, music file, etc)

If you already have a blog, you can post it up on our ‘links’ any time.