Week 10: 88.3 Final Version

The changes made to this version from the last have really boosted its overall success. I threw a gradient coming down from the 88.3 to show some sense of righteousness or freedom. Like the light at the end of the tunnel concept. I added some more buttons to the radio to make it better resemble a radio. I also used bevel and emboss to slightly make the buttons look more real. Finally i cleaned up the blend between the drawing and the radio. I matched the radio color and with a brush just threw some strokes in to make it blend. Then i just adjusted the opacity til it looked somewhat believable. 

Week 9: 88.3 Digital Version

Craft - I scanned in the hand drawing and tried to fuse it as best as possible with the radio which i drew using photoshop. The blending needs to be cleaned up and i need to finish the radio. 

Concept - the concept is a hand breaking free from a boring looking radio. I tried to show the word escape by using handcuffs around the hand but that really didnt no have much significance to the meaning. So what you see is the current representation of Escape from Ordinary radio.

Composition - I simply kept it traditional. Everything centered and the colors just black and white. I wanted the emphasis to be on the concept more than the craft or composition. 

Week 11: Teapots/Brushes

Layered Teapot

Craft was simply using different layers for each type of line. Each color and direction of line is on its own layer. Together all these layers complete the image and background.

Composition is simply just an accident. I began creating this piece not know what was to come of it. I had no plan for any compositional layouts to be done but this is how it turned out.

Concept- the concept for these pots was to let the lines create the image. Not to outline the pot and begin drawing the pot. By only creating the lines, this allowed the lines to create the image of the teapot. 

Acid Rain

Free Fallin'

Shooter

Mega Duck

Glisten

Special Edition:Museum Most Inspiring Works

These are the three works i found most inspiring. All three of them caught my eye more than any other piece in the room. They all have some really cool color contrasts and some intense colors or shapes. I really enjoy looking at works and having to figure out what is going on.

Special Edition:Museum Modern Wing

Composition: This piece just really hit me because of the red circle. The way everything is laid out so suttle and warm is interrupted by the red sun. As if it is burnig through the trees.

Craft: This piece has a very nice craft quality to it. The statue seemed as if it were really a sandy bone in the desert. The shading is done to perfection and the color of the background really compliments the statue. In person, this piece really caught my eye.

Concept: Basically this piece is interesting because it takes away majority of an object but still leaves just enough for you to recognize it is a guitar. I like when artists try to take objects out of their normal form ad just make one part of it recognizable rather than just painting a guitar as a whole. This leaves much more room for interpretation.

picture of me

Special Edition:Museum Classical Wing

Composition: The composition for this piece is very typical of the classical style of painting. It has a tight closed form and everything seems to be pretty symmetrical.

Craft: This piece had amazing detail. The brush strokes were perfect and every little detail of each piece was done neatly and precisely. Up close, the detail is amazing. Its hard to believe what some of these classical artists could accomplish with a brush.

Concept. I choose this piece because the concept is rather rare. Here you have a bum or beggar being shown in a piece of art. Usually the only ones that are being painted are people who could afford it or people of importance, so to see a beggar painted this large is quite unique, especially when the artist refers to him as a philosopher in the title.

Picture of Nate

Week 8: 88.3 Drawings

This is the drawing i am choosing to represent my idea. The concept is simply a hand breaking out of an ordinary radio. The escape from ordinary radio. The hand is reaching toward salvation which is the 88.3 frequency. The craft is done with pencil and i just decided to spend a little more time on this one than the others so i did some shading and darkening. The composition is of course not a square but as i re-create the digital version it will be transformed into a square.