Intro

• Balance is imbued to our way of living
• Uncommon or any lack of balance strikes question
• Pictorial Balance- to see an axis with equal weight
• Equilibrium needs to exist

Imbalance

• When balance is off and uneasy
• Useful to create tension
• Helps to give off a certain effect and plays a narrative

Symmetrical Balance

• also called(bilateral symmetry) – when one side is a mirror image to another
• In Beauty, when there is symmetry, generally it is perceived as a certain standard
• Constant repetition of symmetry is static
• Formal Balance – meaning perfect
• In nature, symmetry is used for significance

Asymmetrical Balance

• Different objects with equal visual weight
• also called(Informal Balance) – in life most experiences can be described as asymmetrical and not perfect
• Can be planned and factored with the use of different placements
• Incorporated with use of different value, color, silhouette
• Changing texture and patterns is important to capture the eye
• Finding casual and unusual place spots
• Combining all the balance and symmetry into one composition

Radial Balance

• Use of circles that radial from a center
• Commonly used in many forms and and also works from forms of symmetry and asymmetry
• Flows outward and has emphasis on middle point

Crystallographic Balance

• also called(allover pattern) use of repetition with same elements and a certain quality
• Pattern that repeats and can be seen as a whole and common in quilts

Intro

• Generally meaning and related to size
• Proportion thought is relative size and can be used as comparison
• Scale is different measurements

Scale of Art

• Consider the whole
• The Unusual Scale – a natural looking scale difference

Scale Within Art

• Consider the internal scale and designs
• Having different alignments and relationships
• Contrast of Scale – show exaggerated and unexpected scale
• Show something big and small together for showing relation

Manipulating Scales

• Change of scale to emphasize an idea
• Hieratic Scaling – when the size deliberately changes to show a focal point of importance

Proportion

• Linked to Ratio
• Body wise – 7 heads tall is ideal
• Golden Rectangle – (w:l as l:l + w) known to many in design
• Root Rectangle
• Using Geometry is a good alternative in design techniques

This was the Second Project. Making the Icons were a lot of Fun. The first week we had to make 3 Icons in the style of a chosen Artists and I chose Kara Walker. I did a lot of black and white to resemble her style. Then for week 2, I had to do Icons with a chosen affect/Mood and I picked Futuristic. I had inspiration of the internet and movies so I went with a cool design that was futuristic and included technology patterns. In the end I taped it all up to a large white paper.

Intro

• Pattern – element of design that includes repetition
• Linked to decoration
• Way to capture attention with a visual design
• Tessellation(tilting) – pattern created that slides along an axis

Texture and Pattern

• Texture is related to pattern but different in feeling of touch of different materials
• Feeling the surface and quality of object coincides with texture

Tactile Texture

• Tactile means when texture is felt
• Impasto is when a thick pigment is used to create a rough 3d surface

Collage – type of design that includes mixed materials like paper, cloth, etc and popular in folk art

Visual Texture – texture meant to be accepted by our eyes and not by touch

• Verisimilitude – using a flat surface and showing that there is texture

Frottage – rubbing

trompe l’oeil – “to fool the eye”

Intro

• Shape is a visual area that closes either by line or color and can also be called form
• Figure – means an object
• Ground – space between object
• Rule of perception – convex to figure, concave to ground

Volume/Mass

• Shape can be two or three dimensional

Naturalism and Idealism

• Naturalism – the state of honest visual representation
• Idealism – view from perspective of the world and standards

Naturalism and Distortion

• Naturalism in shapes is clear and self evident
• Distortions is the exaggerated and reworked shape

Abstraction – shape is simplified to the small essence and purest form

Biomorphic – shapes that refer to organic forms

Nonobjective – shape with no reference to object

Curvillinear – shape that follows a curved plane

Rectillinear – shape that follow a rectangular plane

Positive and Negative Shapes – example where a black shape is positive and the empty white space is the negative

• Line defined as a point with a direction in motion which can tell edges of a shape and the artist hand/point
• Lines convey mood and feeling
• Contour Drawing – outlines that refer to edge of a shape
• Cross Contour – defines a form
• Gesture – capturing the moment of subject which involves quick lines
• Inherent Lines – tied to geometry and the line presence is recognized
• Implied Line – when a line makes the eye notice clearly
• Psychic Line – line that follows a figure and relates to human connection
• Variety and Emphasis – putting adjectives like thin ans smooth before line to show possibilities
• Mood and Motion – changing a lines features rather then shape or form
• Dark and Light – change value
• Lost and Found Contour – when there is a sharp visibility that blends into darkness