Friday, May 16, 2014

Video Definitions

Making notes: drawing what value changes you see but not making them detailed.
Pushing: pushing graphite to certain areas on the page.
Modelling: Taking an eraser to add light.
Photo copy mode: Transferring an image in your mind to black and white to see the value.
Describing: Marking details within a drawing.
Not symbols: not drawing eyes and a nose but defining it through value.

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Grapheme

Grapheme is the smallest unit of a writing system consisting of all written symbols or sequences of written symbols that are used to represent a single phoneme. They are important because they are used to understand languages, written, and printed text around the world.

Legability

Legibility is the serifs between letters and words. Serifs are the space between each letter and word. If nhot enough space is put between the letters and words, like the image shown below, the writing is unreadable. If the writing is legible, the space between each word and letter is put in a way our eyes can perceive the text. When the serifs are too close together the text is hard to read. But if ther serifs are also too far apart, the text can also be hard to understand.

Italic

Italics is the a style of printing where the letters slope to the right. This font is used for emphasis and used to separate different kinds of information. I feel italics is a useful font because it is common and used daily. People understand and recognize the font to make connections or accusations according to the text. 

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Space

Space: the distance or area around, between or, within components of a piece. It is positive and negative value, open or closed, shallow or deep and, 2D or 3D. It sometimes isn't within a piece but an illusion.

Value

Value is an element of art that refers to the lightness or darkness of something. there are 5 ways to render value. The 5 ways are: stippling, shading, cross hatching, parallel hatching, scribble hatching. "Value is the cake itself but colour is the king"- Mrs. Curtis.


Line

Line is the path of a moving point through space.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Paul Klee

Paul Klee applied for a teaching post at the Academy of Art in Stuttgard. He produced nearly 500 works in 1933. Paul Klee was a creator of moving sculptures and has many works. My personal favourite is Forest Witches.


Gothic Cathedral

       This is a Gothic Cathedral in Bracelona. It is called Le Seu.
The cathedral is dedicated to Eulalia of Barcelona. The Cathedral has many interesting artifacts and many stories of Roman times. The Order of the Golden Fleece is in the Cathedral along with many other interesting peices. I think the the Cathedral is absolutely beautiful and is definatley a wonder to the art world!

Cathedrals are a style of architecture during the high late medival period. It evolved from the Romanesque architecture and was succeded by the Renaissance architecture.