Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Text as texture critique



The person that did the critique of mine said she liked that I combined handwritten text and newsprint, as well as how I created my dots out of crumbled paper, as she felt it added to the composition. I agreed with her, as it was my intention, and also about how I picked the best texture, although I was torn a bit with another that was all newsprint for awhile.






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I did Jamie's piece, and I really liked her choice of texture, because it worked well with her dots' placement. My only recommendation was to try integrating the 3-D texture into the dots, because I felt you lost the dots a bit being 2-D, and adding the texture of the newsprint into the dots would've helped to bring them out more as well as add more balance to the piece. Also: she had eight dots. :P

Monday, February 1, 2010

To become a dot...

White space ideas:
-Table cloths/plastic
-White sheets
-Toilet paper/butcher paper
-Cardboard
-Spray paint
-White scraps of paper
-White concrete

Ways to be dots:
-Black dot masks
-Umbrellas
-Black clothes
-Black plastic
-Fist/hands- photoshop
-Dots on a T-shirt
-Lights and shadow contrasts
-Boxing gloves
-Tires with black trash bags
-Trash can lids

Ways to document:
-Film
-Photography
-Draw/sketch