The first picture we have up top is a perfect example of a black and white geometric collage. I had to cut out black and white art clippings and make the composition geometric. I think that the way it flows is really cool, and it has great contrast in black, white, and some grays. The main piece that sticks out to me in this collage is the Art, Beauty, The Sea, and Life, all those words tied together in this collage. This makes sense that Art is Beauty, just like Life and the Sea. It makes sense to me!
The second picture is an example of a design of white on black. We had to take some thumbnails of different designs of white on black and black on white designs. I choose this design for my white on black. I think they look like glasses and a mixture of a scissor design. I like how i designed the shape and how the lines are placed where they are. This piece could have been more complexed, but it works out being simple the way it is.
The third picture I have on display is one of my ultimate favorite pieces I have ever made. Can you tell what it is? If you don't know me personally you probably wouldn't get the design right away unless I tell you. Some people can get what it is right away and some have to wait until I tell them. Well these are my initials, SF. Our assignment was to incoperate our initials into an art piece. We had to have one side of the letters touching the border of the page like mine do. The F is intergrated with the S and it kind of looks like a sward or a T. This may look like an easy task, but I spent a few months on this project, it was not easy at first but once I got the feel for my assignment, it was a lot easier.
The fourth picture I have up is what I call "Spatter Rythem." Splatter Rythem is simply a design used with black paint and different tools to make different thin, thickness, and style out of different pencils, rulers, paper, etc.... I ended up using my finger for some areas, I used a pencil tip and drew with my eyes shut, and finally I also used different paint brush thin/thickness. This was more of a free assignment, I enjoyed how the overall piece turned out. I remember looking around in our classroom and some other groups had some wild designs! It was a creative, fun, and relaxing project.
The fifth picture I have up is "IHCC." I went to Indian Hills Community College, I decided to use these letters to make a design in remembrance of the college I attended. IHCC is just the repetitive form of IHCC and overlapping. I really think this design has a great balance of black and white and it was a rythem that just has an illusion of making the design keep going and going. To some it might be confusing, but once they get the idea of the IHCC letters they can begin to see them throughout the design.
