Playful portraits in charcoal

Making notes: In  the video the lady said that she was going to focus more in the dark shading and make notes of the darker shades to make sure she is on target. She would darken the spots that make it more obvious that it is a face portrait like example his hair and his jawline. Also when she was doing  the light side of the face she would take notes on where his ear would be to structure the face properly and to draw where the forms of his face should approximately be. Making note is where something should be around not exactly where it is but getting an idea of it.

Pushing: In the video she would push the dark shades in more for example in the eyes which is doing deeper with the charcoal and making it darker.

Modelling: In the video the lady was trying give some highlights with white and she said she was just modelling and it will not be exact because it is more of an idea where it should be.

Photocopying mode: This means that when we are doing the playful portrait we should think like a photocopying machine so we can see the light and darkness of the image. Squinting works to separate the dark from the light. Photocopying mode is when the picture is black and white.

Describing: She added negative space to describe the edges of his face.

Not symbols: Not symbols means that draw the portrait playfully and not worry if it looks like a person or not. It should just be loose and looking for the form not really focusing on making the features and symbols exact.

Fonts of company logos

All these logos have different fonts. These logo fonts aren't chosen out of the blue, they all have a good reason for the font, the colour etc. The powerful cars have thicker and bolder fonts while the elegant and classy ones are thinner. All the fonts are legible and clear to read. The colour of the fonts are either black, blue or red in this picture. 

FRANCIS BACON

Francis Bacon's painting is interesting because the face is not how a face would typically look. The lines and colours make my eyes follow along. The colours chosen are all deeper tones and more mature looking. The shapes of the features on the face are disproportional. There is value changes ranging from black to white, dark to light. There is both positive and negative space, the negative space is all back but the positive space has more variety of colours. The painting interests me most by the colours used to show the face features and how they are not how typical faces look like but it is very interesting because I don't often see self portraits that look like this!

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele's artwork interests me why the way the picture is painted. The lines on the face are used to represent the deep inner emotion, disturbance, and lack of peace. The body is outlined by a different colour than  the rest of this art piece. The lines going to the stomach abruptly stop which makes him look very malnourished.The lines on his ribs are deepened by the shifts in colour showing the ribs are exaggerated making me think that he is tortured and starving. The colours make this piece interesting because its all the very close in colour and when the white is used it really brings the eye to the body structure. The shape in this painting is organic and all of the parts of the body looks rather hollow. The texture looks sharp because of the bones that are shown and rough because of the way the darker colours are added on the body.The picture has a good amount of negative space and the positive space is really busy looking by all the different shades of the colours. This artwork is interesting to me because not only how it looks like but also because the story behind it. 

Michelangelo artwork

Michelangelo's artwork has a lot of meaning to it. This has the element of space in it because there is open space and closed space. It is busy where Adam and God are, bringing the focus away from the negative space focusing on the limited amount of space between the fingers. Thus exaggerating the importance and significance of the space between the two fingers showing us the meaning behind this artwork. The meaning behind space where Gods in looks like a brain, this shows that Michelangelo was connecting God to human nature and the works of our brains. This space is busy because when we think of God it has a big impact on humans.

Giorgio DiChirico

Giorgio DiChirico                                                                        

                 

Giorgio's artworks is very perspective and empty in the terms of space. The mood it give off to me is lonely and empty. Because of the emptiness of the pieces it makes me feel lonely in a way and depressed in a way. The colour that are used are not every vibrant bold colours, they are toned down and settle.  These pieces look very ancient and old. These pictures have open space and are three-dimensional because they are perspective art pieces. Giorgio's art is depressing and makes you feel lonely because a lot of the space is not being used and is very empty. It looks like if these are actually real places, no one has visited for thousands of years and it is just left the way it was long  time ago. Even in  the second picture they heads of the statues are empty! 

 

Space

Space is a very unique element of art. You can perceive space my your senses. Space can make you feel differently depending on how much space you get. If you are in an elevator with a lot of people, you probably wont feel comfortable because you are given a small amount of space. There are many types of space such as : positive space, negative space, open space, closed space, inner space, outer space, personal space etc. Space refers to distances between objects and also the implied space like what can be achieved in a perspective drawing.


These pictures all show types of space. The top two pictures show the difference between positive and negative space where the positive space is white and the negative space is black. You can see the space between the shapes and the open space in the background. The last drawing is a one point perspective drawing, and this shows three- dimensional, sometimes space is not within a piece but the illusion of it is.  You can see the open space at the front of the picture and see that the road narrows, this gives an illusion of space.