Tina's Bio

     Going back to college again after many years to me was a huge challenge and a new start fro me in my life. Finding the right direction in my college life has been a really tough part in my years of college. Our economy has changed so much and so has our technology which has really helped me to make a change in my life. So a few years ago I decided to do Graphic Design. Having my close friends to encourage me has really encouraged me to go for my dream. So now learning fro meach other in this class is fun and encouraging to help each other.
   Moving from the dream state to my realaity is my wonderful children who have significant needs and many supports are needed for them. So my everyday life is filled with obstacles each day. Doing design and learning the different aspects helps me to regulate my self from love for art and my reality life.
   My life started out  difficult. I  lost my mom very young but made me strong and to be assertive to me and my choices in life. This picture here represents me in the color of many choices and the indian feather on the right is for the courage I face every day. My eyes and sutle expression gives you an idea of stress and the love I have for the world we live in.
   I now live in a cute little house in a natures palace of wildlife and love to live off my land with gardens, chickens and blueberry bushes. In the next year, I hope gains will be  made to give me and my kids strength to grow. I want them become part of this tough society to be independent in the life they will lead to find their own dreams.

Rhythm

I chose to do my first part on taste!

I chose the Sense of Taste for my project. In my grid I have four Pictures that ulalize what it word represents. I chose sweet, sour, spicy, foul taste. I chose this cause I love cooking so much and is a good challenge for me. I thought these foods and were well represented. The first pictures I took last Summer strawberry picking and the other came from clipart.com which is a paid subscription.
                                                                                

      

Sweet

              

Sour

   Spicy

  Mould taste








This my fifth design using my Strawberry as a base for the design more work needed but here is a start. It looks like a strawberry checkerboard.

Rhythm

 

This image to me makes me see Rhythm for me is the Sun orange image because the way you see a path of light that goes from one circle to the next small circle. Both elements follow a nice line and to connect each other so nicely. The foreground and the horizon color connect really nicely with each other too.  

  

In the absence of the Focal point we see Different colored line horizontal and vertical across the image numerous way with many shades of colors. I feel as though this gives us rhythm to balance our lines across the image. The colors also blened together each show us rhythm also feel unique.

Balance

This is part one of the project so far. I used lots of kitchen gadgets, Fork spear,Cookies cutters, cheese cutter,wide knife, wine opener, butter knife rooster cutter knife. You could say this was all about tools for the kitchen

Challenging but fun project!

This is my Woman and dog image> I used the hoof pick and can opener for the legs and built the body upwards. The Wrench worked as hands that are over sized.  The forks worked as the trees behind them and the stalk of the fork seemed to be a great model fro showing the road to balance them out. It was fun and took a few treys to make a picture out of these objects. Hope you all enjoy this!!!

Scale and Proportion

        


This is my project I came up with. First of all I don't like spiders but love the water and boats. This is the Harbor by Backbay in Boston, Ma. I came up with this idea by think about movies and unwanted huge insects. Hope you enjoy this and felt this showed the very large size compared to the small humans we are even in a big city atmosphere!!!

Emphasis and focal point
I chose my focal point emphasis on a favorite of mine Pablo Picasso. This is named the
The old Guitarist  for the obvious reason. I view many many images but this seem to fit the
psychological much better. The old man sitting on the steps gets us the feeling about aging.Having the gray and dark olive give the deep feeling of sadness and losing hope. He seems to be falling down low as he wants use to see him as a aging man that is still playing to keep alive. Colors play a role in how we see the psychological ole with our emotions on art and life.

Absence of focal point
This was my pick for Absence of focal point as we see in this image the line all cross each other and our eyes really don't have a place to focus onto to. This was done by Larionov Mikhail in 1913 and is called"Rayonist Composition. It is a watercolor on paper. 

 Placement

This image really shows placement in how each object works with each other in placement.  The tree and the two humans looking through the 3/4 of a box in the water. This one really caught my eye into how each object was place so nicely.  This is a fantasy image with no artist mentioned.

      One Element

This image is the Sun Tunnels which time thought it showed the one element of focal point pretty well in how the in tunnel guided the eye towards the center faster than the bigger tunnel. My eye seems to want to draw towards the light more than size. This came out of a graphic book called LAND ART. The element really shows hows an element can really play in a focal point.

Contrast

This in my image of contrast for the fact that the trees and the snow reflect from each other and the moose seperates the colors between each other. The snow falling off the moose really gives me an impression of movement and back to nature.

Isolation

This picture was taken by. I really think this picture really shows isolation. The ball pit has the two kids watching the teacher engaged with the toy, while the other boy is kind of bored spaced out the window. The boy at the windows is showing separation from the group very nicely. I like how the three kids make a nice triangle with their placement but the boy standing gives some separation from the others.

 WEEK ON UNITY

 Chaos 
 This image really gave the feeling if chaos where my eyes just don't know where to start.. Unreadable and too much going on at once but cool image too.

Repetition

This image is Repetition with similarity  as the bubbles repeat itself through out the image. It is really cool as the bubbles change color through out the design.

Continuation

This is a fine example of continuation flows from the hand to the cuff drawing making a nice flowing circle that just keep my eye moving. The transition from the  hand to pencil to paper is so wonderful. M.C Escher is just so artistic with his mind and connecting these line so wonderful.





         FIGURATIVE

This is a image of nonobjective work in the way that this has no reference to the natural world. The masks with the hand represent a face of humans but shows some expression but no relevance of an actual realism to what we see in the natural world.

 PROXIMITY
This is my find of an image fro proximity. This shows the closeness of objects with in a close distance of the puzzle pieces. I chose the puzzle pieces cause it really shows how we all fit together in this world to inter twine together.

 

Here is one of my other projects I did which shows how in design give us depth to our art.