- Design
With Todd Moore - In Design Class, we took on exploring and tackling the elements of Design. What is Design?
Through various projects we explored: Composition and Framing, Lighting, Material, Pattern, Colour, Texture or Surface, Contrast, Self Generation and Scale. 
Composition/Framing: Photo-collage
In this photo collage project, we looked to manipulate the generic square frame of a photograph. We assembled photos from the Winter and from Spring whilst considering composition as well as breaking the frame of a photo.
Lighting: Portraits
By doing this assignment, I realized the power of lighting. With lighting itself, you can alter the manner of a piece in more ways then one. Lighting should be an important component in every project and should always be purposeful.
Pattern: Ink Stencil
Exploring pattern, made me aware of its importance and versatility if and when pattern was used. Pattern can be manipulated to create a surface, a texture or an element.
Material: Ink and Rubber-cement portrait.
Material is important to a piece, sometimes material can be the primary focus of the piece, it can create visual confusion - seeing an image or seeing material.- Colour Experimentations.
Colour is divided in to three areas - hue, value and saturation.
Colour can be manipulated to work with or against other aspects of design. From this I learned colour can be easily misused and or misinterpreted, colour usually gets considered as a hue, what colour is it? But what is not given enough attention is how dark or light is the colour, and how rich the colour is. - Texture/Surface: Collage
Texture is important to a piece because it holds the ability to add another dimension to your work. It can provide a sense of feel and sight. - Contrast/compliment: Two contrasting boards (considering texture and colour).
By creating a contrast, a piece can become dynamic, friction is set up. This can make a piece more intriguing and eye catching. - For my pleasant piece. I choose the colour "rainbow" and for my texture, I used toy soldiers coupled in sexual arrangement. From a distance you may only notice the rainbow and possibly the soldiers, but when viewed close up, the soldiers actions are revealed and the piece becomes provocative.
- For my unpleasant. I chose a blood red, oily orange colour and for my texture i chose fried chicken from the Met (Food Hall).
Along with a repulsive colour, the texture of the chicken as well as the grease and the smell provided an overall really disgusting piece. - Synesthesia
A group project to encourage many senses in an artistic way. We approached it in a more comedic way, spear-headed by Jacob. We reinterpreted the Cadbury Gorilla Ad but fused it with a Blue Man Group-esque performance.
Singer/Paint dripper - Jacob Reynolds
Drummer/Painter - Linus Kung - Our Final dealt with scale, so I chose landscape as my subject. To deal with scale I create a mystic and vast landscape, using my knowledge of colour and light to create depth and atmosphere.
As a concluding idea, I needed something to show the sense of scale in this painting. Seeing as I have incorporated my light mood in this class most of the semester (it most certainly rubbed off from Todd) I used the Hulk to scale my painting.
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