For this project we had to do 16 compositions in a grid of household objects that we arranged into different positions. each square had to have something going off the edge at all four sides. After completing these 16 we then had to narrow down to 9 squares. Then after choosing our 9 drawings we then enlarged them from 3"x 3" to 4"x 4". Once the enlargements were done we then opened up the squares on each side by erasing some of the border to let the white space flow. The final 9 grid was inked in pen. For this project we were supposed to focus on the principles of Gestalt. These two pictures of my final piece and the draft below it show how I dealt with Gestalt in my own work. The bottom is a draft of my 9 grid that had some gestalt groupings. The paint brushes in the 2nd row and 3rd row on the left were very similar. The other grouping was the the middle square and the square below that both of which had large rolls of tape. In the final draft I rearranged my drawings so that the grid is seen as a whole instead of certain groupings of similar objects. This project really taught me how to recognize Gestalt principals and work toward making the whole of a piece the focal point instead of it becoming the different groups in a design.
