Cardboard Animal Structure

          While I was planning out my sculpture, a couple of things crossed my mind. The most frequent thing that crossed my mind was how was going to attach the parts. For almost all parts of my sculpture I used the slot technique to get the pieces to fit properly together and to not use an adhesive. I think it worked out well in the end. Some successes in my build were that I figured out a lot of how I would be able to work my sculpture as I went along (this could be a bad thing) but I learned a lot about working with cardboard in the process.

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Matisse Project Questions

Describe the dominant complimentary colour scheme you chose. How did you make
them appear more dominant than any of the other colours you used? Explain your
reasoning for choosing these colours.

     The dominant complimentary colour scheme I chose was one that used Blue-Green and  Red-Orange. These colours appeared more dominant than the other colours I chose because every other colour use was either a darker hue of green or orange, or a wash of green and orange. When you darken a colour (using black) it takes away some of the sheen of the colour. The main colours in the colour scheme were mixed without black. The reason I chose these colours is that I wanted to make my colours stand out but not clash like yellow and purple.


Did you use pattern in the foreground or background to help create emphasis on a focal
point? Explain.

     I did not use a specific pattern in the foreground or background to create emphasis on the focal point. The only patterning were the two horses. Both of them used the same shape in the body so I thinnk that may have helped your eye move around the page.


Describe the process of planning out your design of the horse drawing in the style of
Matisse and the painting process? What were some difficulties that came up in the
process and some positive developments in your process?

     When I started my design, I didn't have a clear idea of what I wanted to do so I hoped by turning the horses' body I had already traced on another piece of paper into smaller, wavier shapes. After that, I cut out these shapes and tried to place them slightly irregularly to change the shape of the horse. I didn't end up changing the shape of the horse too much. After that, I cut out these same shapes on paper I had painted. I cut out enough shapes to make two horses (one on each sheet). The reason I did this is that I wanted to be able to play around with the colour of the horses until I found something that worked. In the end, the second set of pieces were trimmed to make them smaller and then made into a smaller horse for my background. This horse was the opposite in colours from the other horse becasue I had used the left over shapes. To create the grass at the bottom of my picture I cut out rectangles on the green paper and then I used an X-acto knife to cut out grass. Doing this gave me two lengths of grass and gave some cool effects to them when placed side by side.
     Some difficulties that came up in the process were basically not knowing what I wanted to do. I think that If I knew what I was doing sooner, then my picture could have turned out a bit better. As I got to the end, I didn't know what to do with some of the empty space until Ms. Cockburn told me to step back from my painting. Suddenly the gaping white space seemed a lot smaller and I accepted that not everything needs to be filled in.

Written and Photo Documentation: Final Picasso Horse Painting

Questions:

1. Describe the monochromatic colour scheme you chose. Did you choose analogous or 

complimentary for accent colour? Explain your reasoning for choosing this colour.

The monochromatic colour scheme I chose consists of mainly red-orange and orange colours. For my accent colour, I chose a complimentary colour. The reason I chose this colour was that I wanted to make the horse stand out a lot as I realized it was lacking multiple viewpoints. The colour I chose for the accent was a mixture of yellow, blue and white. As you can see, I used a lot more blue than yellow, but I still wanted a  green tinge so that the colour would actually be opposite on the colour wheel. I used the white to both lighten the colour, but also to take away some of the sheen so that the background did not dominate the painting.

2. Describe the process of planning out your design of the horse drawing in the style of 

Picasso and the painting process? What were some difficulties that came up in the 

process and some positive developments in your process?

To start off, I used the tracing of the horse on tracing paper to give myself an idea of what the final product would look like. By looking at the traced horse on see through paper, it made it a lot easier to visualize. After that, one the other side of the tracing paper, I basically straightened the curves on the horse to make it look more blunt like in Picasso's paintings. Following that, I played around with a second sheet of tracing paper basically trying to make the horse look less "natural". From this, I had the pencil outline of my horse. Using the pressing technique, I transferred this drawing onto a piece of white paper. 

When I started to paint, all I really knew was that using red could make the unnatural shapes of my horse stand out like Picasso did with his paintings, so that is how I came up with red. Once I started painting, I started with what should have been the darkest areas of my horse, (hooves ect.) and lightened the colour as I worked away from those areas. To lighten the colour, I used more yellow as opposed to white. 

A problem I encountered was having difficulty letting go of the orange in my painting. As you can see below, most of the process paintings are all orange with slightly darker shades of red-orange. I chose the blue-green shade for the background because I wanted the horse to stand out against it. I was afraid the background would swallow the horse though, so I added a white outline to the horse.

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