Shape Project

These two pieces come from our second project that dealt with shape. This project required us to take a 4 inch black square and completely cut up and destroy it and then create four different designs, three non-objective and one abstract piece. Above are two of my four designs. The first is the abstract piece which depicts a kite flying high up in the sky. The second is a non-objective piece that I made. In the first design I used strategies such as abutting, mutual tension, and interlocking to obtain a visual relationship between the pieces of construction paper. In the second design it is obvious that abutting was my main strategy for this piece, however there is some mutual tension as well especially with the middle top piece.

Marks Project post #3

This piece explores the balancing of figure and ground in a slightly different way. There is a balance of both figure and ground but instead of the figure being dominate in only half of the piece it is spread out. Both the ground and figure are in equal amounts and the is a balance between the two that is different from the previous posting.

Marks Project post #2

This is another piece from my Marks project that has a different figure-ground relationship. This piece is balancing figure with ground. The ground(white space) is about the same amount and has just as much importance as the figure. We were instructed to try a few pieces where the figure only takes up a small amount of the ground and so the two are balanced. This is one of my attempts at this relationship.

Marks Project post #1

For our Marks Project we had to paint 15 pieces with varied figure-ground relationships that retained the essence of our name without our name being readable. These are two of my fifteen and show different figure-ground relationships. The first has a dominate amount of ground compared to the small amount of figure. The second piece is the opposite with a dominate figure and very little ground showing.