Bill's Art105 Fall 2009 Blog

2009-11-03T13:54:00.000-08:00

Goya #77 - First One, Then Another by Ellen

2009-11-02T17:58:00.001-08:00

"First One, Then Another" symbolized people following each other. Many are independent, but many follow the leader too, especially today (though it has always occurred.) What is good for the goose it not necessarily good for the gander, though many would like you to think so...

You Will Not Escape.

2009-10-30T09:26:00.000-07:00

It is Nicely S t r e t c h e d - Goya Caprichos #17

2009-10-29T18:08:00.000-07:00

Alex Alarcon "Goya #43" The sleep of reason produces the supernatural

2009-10-29T16:22:00.000-07:00

jesse peterson "Brushed Off The Star Spangled Shoulders"

2009-10-29T16:08:00.000-07:00

Goya reimagination

2009-10-29T14:37:00.001-07:00

Goya #67

2009-10-29T14:19:00.000-07:00

Thou Who Canst Not

2009-10-29T14:00:00.000-07:00

Goya #8 " They Carried Her Off"

2009-10-29T13:52:00.000-07:00

Print #22

2009-10-29T13:43:00.000-07:00

Digital Collage based on Goya's Caprichos

2009-10-29T13:41:00.000-07:00

Goya's #12 Tooth-hunting

2009-10-29T13:36:00.000-07:00

goya # 25

2009-10-29T13:34:00.000-07:00

2009-10-29T13:26:00.000-07:00

This is my Photoshop collage based on Goya's Caprichos number 21 entitled How They Pluck Her. I wanted to keep the composition of the original and I also liked the black and white scheme. I decided to introduce red, however, to make the victim figure more pronounced and emotive. I am happy with the way the my collage turned out.

PRINT #52

2009-10-29T13:24:00.001-07:00

Jamie Smith Goya Collage

2009-10-27T16:26:00.000-07:00

Stalking the light in Baroque

2009-09-29T16:10:00.000-07:00

"First Impression"

2009-09-29T16:08:00.001-07:00

Portrait Based on Abstract Expressionist paintings by Arshile Gorky

2009-09-29T14:42:00.001-07:00

2009-09-29T13:40:00.000-07:00

My "Self-Portrait": In Cubism/Cubist style

Fearless Leader

2009-09-29T13:34:00.003-07:00

2009-09-29T13:34:00.001-07:00

2009-09-29T13:32:00.002-07:00

Meow. by Ellen Stoehr

2009-09-29T13:32:00.001-07:00

2009-09-29T13:29:00.000-07:00

Self-portrait (inspired by Chuck Close) Photorealism

2009-09-24T15:59:00.000-07:00

Surrealism

2009-09-24T15:22:00.000-07:00

Inspiration-Art Nouveau

2009-09-24T15:08:00.001-07:00

jesse peterson graffiti stylized self portrait

2009-09-24T13:25:00.001-07:00

Point and click. Pointillism

2009-09-24T10:48:00.000-07:00

Self-Portrait in Art Nouveau

2009-09-24T10:04:00.000-07:00

woman in the park "Madalyn"

2009-09-24T09:12:00.000-07:00

2009-09-23T10:18:00.000-07:00

Jamie Smith Impressionism: Project #1

2009-09-22T16:37:00.000-07:00

I did Impressionism, mainly referencing Monet.

Self Portrait based on Fauvism

2009-09-22T15:20:00.000-07:00

Lonely man- Alex Hanley

2009-09-15T13:38:00.000-07:00

I choose this image because i liked the emotion this man shows. He is sitting in a room alone with a ball and chain tied to his foot with individual lights pointing down at him. His face shows such anger, but i really just think he's lonely. Everybody needs friends.

i tried to capture just the basic parts on the piece. the ball and chain, and his loneliness. I really wanted to put the white and black contrast in with him.
By putting the red in for the white i think it shows more of the anger in him. I liked the black and white one better but this just shows a different emotion.

Darlington " The Cabnet of Dr Caligari

2009-09-15T13:27:00.000-07:00

My image I choose came right out of the wonderful work n of “The Cabnet’s Of Dr. Caligari”. I choose this film because the black and white prospective gives a remarkable and true classical sense of the light and dark scenes dramatic peek. The image I pick is a scene of an empty room. I choose this particular picture because I found the shapes visually entreating because of their geometrical form. Also, how each one than are placed in different part of the room, giving a sense of construction. As for the project I basically recreated the shapes in the picture by using basic rectangle, circle, octagons and lines to create the chair, the frame of the window. For the colors, I pick warm, light and dark colors to give the picture a little realistic effect and an outdoor and indoor feeling when you look through the window. I intentionally make the color outside the window to correspond with the once inside the room, to gives the version a sense of movement and balance.

Original picture of Sailor

2009-09-10T16:32:00.000-07:00

See below for the edited versions.

Creepy Scene in Tilted Room

2009-09-10T16:09:00.000-07:00

I chose The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari because of its eery-esque characters and scenes. I found the shapes in the film particularly visual appealing because of how geometric they are. So, for my bauhaus project I exaggerated the geometric shapes using basic squares, triangles, circles and trapezoids. I used simple lines on the window to give the room a more crooked effect and lines on the floor to give the composition depth.

2009-09-10T11:00:00.000-07:00

I used an image from the movie "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari". The greyscale image creates the sense that the person in the image is a townspeaker of some sort that is about to announce something a crowd that may be serious or dark. On the other hand, the color image portrays an image of a more festive event that is about to be announced. I chose the image due to the mysteriousness of the actual event at hand, including the objects which are not recognizeable at that moment.

2009-09-08T16:01:00.000-07:00

i will get pictures up soon

Levels in Photoshop

2009-09-08T13:06:00.000-07:00

Here are two images that have the shades of gray adjusted using levels in Photoshop. This can be handy for tracing in Illustrator. OK.

Bauhaus stair-march delight

2009-09-03T15:46:00.000-07:00

The still I used was drawn from "The Battleship Potemkin", and is from the scene where soldiers are descending upon uprising civilians down a large stone staircase. I used repeating sets of threes in this project, in terms of shape groups and color patterns, to give the images a pleasing sense of rhythm. The three yellow diagonals in the top-right corner help to give dimension and grounding to the soldiers and their shadows, which would otherwise be seemingly floating in space. I used slight variations of the colors to give depth of layers and help break the strictness of a tri-chromatic color scheme. The original scene can be seen below.

Battleship Potamkin

2009-09-03T15:06:00.000-07:00

I chose this thumbnail because I thought that it had good composition and symmetry. I liked the scene, because it took place on a ship. The colors were somewhat random, and seem to work fairly well together.
I was gearing toward the Bauhaus era. That is why there are circles, squares and rectangular shapes. I chose the brown, blue and purple because the men looked somewhat dirty and worn/beat.

Rosie's Battleship Potemkin - Color

2009-09-03T15:03:00.001-07:00

In this color picture I took my black and white piece from The Battleship Potemkin and added color to it. My intention was to recreate it using colors that match the intensity levels of my black and white choices. My goal was to emphasize the movement and asymmetrical balance from the still.

2009-09-03T15:03:00.000-07:00

There are organic shapes in this piece as well as sharp angles. The contrast of the dark hair to his face is sharp. In the black and white one you can feel the depth because of the closeness of his face in the picture and the faces in the crowd are darker. Adding color changes the feel of the location. In the color picture it feels like he is in an inclosed space unlike the other where he is outdoors.

luke klein's contributions

2009-09-03T14:52:00.000-07:00

These are what I came up with. I chose this still from "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" because I liked the strong visual impact the film had. The sharp, dynamic, and unrealistic angles make the scene of the man carrying away a woman more foreign, strange, and disorienting. I had fun with the color one as it completely altered the vibe of the picture.

2009-09-03T14:49:00.000-07:00

I took the photo from the film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari". It is rendured in color on the left and black, white and greys on the right hand side. I used very dianamic angled shapes using very little rounded edges. In the black and white photo, theres is a large variation of grey's in the background and the figure is more dynamic standing out in black instead of blending in with the rest of the photos colors.

Battleship

2009-09-03T14:47:00.001-07:00

This is my recreation of a seen of Battleship Potemkin. I used the colors to show emotion in what would be the people. For the black and white i used dark shads to show the men who were shooting the people on the steps and lighter colors for the people being killed. Then in color i used blues for the men who were shooting because they don't really show feeling to the people and red for there leader who is demanding the kills. Used green for the people because it gave is a horrid sad feel.

2009-09-03T14:46:00.000-07:00

I really enjoyed doing this project because it taught me about the Bauhaus style. Its simple shapes and dynamic use of colors fits right with the feel of the dramatic silent movie The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari. The black and white version gives a very true sense of the dark scene's dramatic peek. On the other hand the multicolored version creates a completely different emotion and situation. The bright pure colors change the focus from a looming figure to a beautiful land.

jesse peterson

2009-09-03T14:44:00.000-07:00

This was my favorite scene from “Dr. Caligari.” I was more attracted to this movie as opposed to “The Battleship Potempkin” because it was set in a more unrealistic world that used scenes that looked like pieces of art. Using geometric and organic lines it displayed an artistic balance. This particular scene was intriguing because of the angular lines and a sense of movement, alongside a somewhat distorted sense of depth and perspective. Also the black and white, I felt, is much more true to the composition and feeling of the movie and has much more of a dramatic and dark overtone than the color version, and the fact that it was shot in black and white.

color and black and white JAMIE SMITH

2009-09-03T14:42:00.001-07:00

For both these images I used a scene from "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari". I had to overlap shapes to create the curves using only geometric figures, similar to a collage. For the color image, I tried to use colors that I thought complimented each other, seeing that they are mainly all pastels. Yet, I wanted the figure of the man to stand out the most. For the black and white image, I stuck to only 3 different shades, two gray shades and black. I thought it seemed more simplistic that way and made the curves and figures more important then the shading.

Helen's Project

2009-09-03T14:40:00.002-07:00

These Pictures are from the movie, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari." They show repetition of ovals to represent the heads of the housekeeper and the friend of the murdered victim. The chair is in stark contrast to the rest of the figures. I feel the picture is in harmony in the grey scale but the colored one has a stronger variation of form brought on by the color.

Rosie's Battleship Potemkin - BW

2009-09-03T14:40:00.001-07:00

This work was created from a still of the 1925 silent film The Battleship Potemkin. In creating this piece my intention was to capture the movement and asymmetrical balance. Movement: I did this with the use of dynamic angular shapes. Asymmetrical balance: I did this with the use of smaller shapes on the left (of the same tone) balanced asymmetrically with a larger shape (on the right).

Assignment 1

2009-09-03T14:36:00.001-07:00

From a film still out of the silent film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", I created a black and white image and a color image in Bauhaus style. The impressions I got from reading about the Bauhaus style were that it is very modern, dynamic and non-objective or simplistic in style, which is why I chose the film still used for this project. This film still had geometrically suggested shapes and dynamic angles in the dark shadows of a flight of stairs. In my recreations, I used repetition of shapes and sizes to help lead your eye around the picture plane. In the black and white image, the larger, odd angled shapes go off the edge of the plane to break up the space better. There is a lot of negative space in both images, which matches the actual film still. In the color image, I created an extra angle in the background with a second shade of purple to help break up the negative space and add more dimension to the image. Some shapes in both images have an outline, I used this to add more texture to the otherwise flat surface.
And that's my project, tadaaa!

Black and White

2009-09-03T14:22:00.000-07:00

This is picture of 2 ladies originally. I created it dynamic and geometric. For black and white one, they look really sad and depressed in the picture, so I put darker gray a lot. For color one, I wanted to make it totally opposite image. I used light color for background as well.

Bauhaus Assignment

2009-09-03T14:16:00.000-07:00

I used this screen from The Battleship Potemkin because of its dynamic imagery and the intensity that it displayed. I also liked the repetition that was caused by the shadows of the soldiers in the background. I used the colors that I did in the color version because I felt it best displayed the action that was being portrayed.

Instructions for posting Exercise 1

2009-09-02T19:36:00.000-07:00

By the end of class on Thursday, Sept. 3, please post one grayscale and one color jpeg image of your film still recreation from Illustrator. Do this by using the Save for Web command in Illustrator. If you find that there are additional forms or whitespace around your work when you save and open the jpeg, draw a rectangle around the work only and go to Object…Make Cropmarks, then Save for Web again.

Beneath each work, please write a clear and concise description of the formal qualities of the work that are essential to it being perceived as successful design. In addition, if you like, you can speak about how your content is expressed through your formal choices.

ART 105 First Post

2009-08-15T11:15:00.000-07:00

Hello 105ers,

Welcome to our class blog. ART105 can be an exciting place to make some digital art pieces. On this blog you will be able to post visuals from the course, write about your work and let others in the group give you feedback.

Bill Gorcica