Blog Presentation

Agnes Cecile

Resize Me

The illusion of transparency: a color illusion in which opaque medium is used to create an illusion of transparency.  Cecile uses watercolor, acrylic, oil charcoal, charcoal, ink, pen, and pencil to make this look like there is a slightly transparent, larger face over the smaller face in the center.

Heliotropic Girl

Complimentary colors:  Chromatic opposites direction across from each other on the color wheel.  In this piece, there are some violets, but mostly blue and orange are used, which are complementary colors.  The violet is very watered down and transparent so that the blue and orange are most apparent.

The Water Workshop III

Analogous colors:  Colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel.  This piece uses a lot of colors in the range between and including blue and red.  So blue, blue violet, violet, red violet, and red are primarily used in this piece.  The only other color used here is yellow, to add some contrast and highlight.

You have to stay, do nothing

Color and Quantity:  color in relation to the surface area that it occupies.  In this piece, Cecile sketched out the composition, but did not fill it all in with color, controlling the quantity of color in the piece.  Even though it uses a minimal amount of watercolor, it is still clear what the piece is trying to show.  It also really brings the focus in on the mouth, nose, and eyes of the figure, because the rest of the face is just sketched in.

The game of making structures

Hard Edge:  two colors of opposite levels of saturation, or value, are next to one another.  Watercolor can be hard to create a hard edge with, and Cecile's style doesn't usually consist of hard edges, but this piece has some hard edges.  Because she chooses to use violet and yellow, and the yellow is so saturated, there is a hard edge created between the child and the string they are holding.  This draws attention to the string first, since it stands out, being the only bright yellow part.

Agapornis

Vanishing Boundary: two colors of close saturation and value are next to each other and the boundary between them becomes nearly invisible.  Cecile creates a vanishing boundary by using analogous colors of similar saturation.  She also uses the medium of watercolor to her advantage, causing the colors to blend together and losing the sense of a boundary between colors.

Project 06

1. This page uses complimentary colors (orange and blue).  These are the colors I see when I get up for class in the morning.  The picture is of my window and bed in my room.
2. For this page I used a monochromatic theme.  I only used blue because in the morning around 9am when I go to class in the urbn center, the sky is clear and blue on a nice day.
3. I chose to use primary colors for this composition.  The subject is my notebook, desk, and my feet below the desk. 
4. For the center composition I used optical mixes.  This is a booth in the Hans dining center, around noon.  I used dull colors in the background, then yellow and oranges for the booth and table.  Yellow and oranges are used because the sun is coing down through the glass above.  The colors I used for the optical mixes are violet and yellow, and red-orange and blue-green, so I also used a tetrad.
5. This piece is of a painting I made, watercolor pencils, and a cup of water with paint brushes in it.  I chose to go with the theme dullness and color, using dull and less saturated colors on the unimportant pieces.  I used yellow but made it dull because it is getting into the later afternoon.
6. For this piece I took a photo of my laptop, my tablet, and my tablet pen.  I used analogous colors, and used the colors of a sunset, because it is evening.
7. The last piece is of a computer lab in the urbn center.  It is night time so I made all of the colors dark, but used yellow for the computers because they are powered on and the screens are bright.  The concept is contrast.

Project 04

Project 03

Project 02

Project 01 / Value