Principles of Design Research

My partner and I looked at the painting Dempsey and Firpo by George Bellows. I think that the main principle in this piece of art was movement, the artist showed movement in the painting he used implied movement by having one of the boxers falling out of the ring and the other boxer following through with his punch. Bellows showed emphasis by having the two boxers be the brightest, and biggest in the painting, which contrasted everything else which was smaller and darker, he also had them placed in the middle. He used proportion by making the people who were further away smaller and not as defined as the ones who were closer. He used balance in the painting by using asymmetry.

Fabric Drawings.

I thought today was okay. Not my favorite drawing from perspective, but it wasn't to bad. I tried to really focus on the shading today, and I think I ended up making it a little to dark. I liked last week much better. The fact that it was a more solid design really helped me elaborate.

pile of sticks.

I thought that today went pretty well. In later drop everything and draw days I've gotten frustrated when I had to draw from general to specific, but now i'm realizing that it helps your art work a lot if you don't try to go straight to specific. I enjoyed the process of starting from the bottom and working my way to the top. I think that one thing I could've done differently today, was to try not to specific around the edges, but once I was told about it I tried to work on that. I thought that my out come was decent and if i had more time it would turn out well.

Mid-term Reflection

When we are working in class, I try to stay as focused on my art as possible. That's when I am able to be most engaged, when we are actually working in class. When I am working on a project I try to be a perfectionist. Not perfect through other peoples eyes but mine.

The Changing Still Life

I actually did not mind this drawing from observation I thought that my end product looked sort of cool.The three main things I had to do to get this still life done were:
1. ALOT of erasing (my arm started to hurt)
2. I had to keep my composure (and not get too aggravated like past drawing from observations)
3. Keep up with what was happening ( could not stay on one part of the drawing for too long or I would have been totally overwhelmed)

Knowing what I know now, one thing that I would do differently is drawn things a little bit smaller, I have trouble with size proportion.