First Thursday Scavenger Hunt December 8, 2008

Symmetrical Artwork (Steve Klein, Bullseye Gallery)

Tetrad Harmonic Color Scheme, Yellow, Blue-Green, Red Orange, and Violet (Adam Sorensen, PDX Contemporary Art)

Curvilinear Shapes (Adam Sorenson, PDX)

Stranger's favorite shape: Square (Sylvia Levenson, Bullseye Gallery)

Art that uses tints, tones, and shades (Adam Sorensen, PDX contemporary art)

Artwork with Rhythm (G. Lewis Clevenger, Pulliam Deffenbaugh gallery)

Subtle shifts in value and distortion. (Klaus Moje, Bullseye Gallery)

Something funny -  Ken Shores, Feather Fetish totem, Pulliam Deffenbaugh gallery.
Sorry, Pulliam Deffenbaugh’s gallery owner wouldn’t let me take any pictures, and this particular work isn’t on the website. It looks like a chestnut with feathers, hence the hilarity.

Example of pattern and repetition (Adam Sorensen, PDX Contemporary Art)

Art that tells a story (Robert Nielson, Beppu Wiarda)

Most interesting balance at PDX Contemporary Art (Adam Sorenson)

Gestalt Theory (Giles Bettison, Bullseye Gallery)

Dynamic lines, (Linda Geary, Lava, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery)

Robert Nelson, Beppu Wiarda. Beppu Wiarda is currently hosting many of Nelson's works, and Nelson's works are dominated by contor lines. In this drawing, the width of the lines is uniform, although different lines have a different width. The lines give this picture give it incredible detail.

Jonnel Covault, Beppu Wiarda. Unbelievably, this is linocut. I love this picture, because I want to learn these techniques someday.

Megan and Cristin’s Vote Poster October 25, 2008

FM color test October 12, 2008

Here are my results.

The elements of design: Design/Redesign Evaluation October 7, 2008

Unity and Variety

This photograph includes several sets of similar objects. The eight Red Bull cans are the exact same shape and size. An unknown person placed seven cans on the right side of the board and the remaining can on the left, simultaneously adding variety to the design and restoring a sense of asymmetrical balance. The chess board pattern also adds a sense of unity, since a pattern automatically creates repetition.

Three of the buildings look exactly the same.

Balance

Aside from a couple of open windows and incorrect tints, this building is entirely symmetrical. Symmetry creates a sense of balance which-while sometimes boring- never fails to create an appealing composition.

Unlike the previous instance, this photograph demonstrates asymmetrical symmetry. The textbook doesn’t define the difference between balance through asymmetrical symmetry and a total lack of balance, leaving it to the audience to decide whether the photograph is balanced. As soon as I saw this photograph on my phone, I immediately knew the composition worked. The neck mannequins are arranged in a perfect line with the exception of the miniature, creating a regularity. Yet the miniature neck mannequin actually improves balance even though it strays from the uniformity of the other three. The miniature mannequin creates an emphasis area at the bottom of the portrait, balancing out the other three mannequins placed near the top. The mannequin setup also adheres to the 1/3rds & 2/3rds rule; the two mannequins on the left take up two thirds of the photograph, while the miniature mannequin and remaining mannequin take up the remaining third. Scattered jewelry completes the photograph by taking up space that would otherwise be ignored.

Scale and Proportion

This photograph is a visual example of one point perspective. The canal in the photograph fades away until the viewer can almost see its vanishing point.

This picture illustrates the size of the human body depending on its distance from the viewer. The woman in the red coat, while roughly the same size as the two others in the background, is represented as twice as large because she is closer to the camera.

Rhythm

In this photograph, the building’s windows are repeated over and over.

The carpet uses rhythm by repeating a similar design all over the floor

Emphasis

The golden boat draws attention, especially since it is the only significant object apart from the black background.

The bright colors of the food cart draw attention when placed against the low intensity background

Gestalt Theory

This picture is broken into three distinctive color groups.

This picture includes three elements of Gestalt Theory: containment, proximity, and continuity. It is not my work, this picture was taken by Sarah Butler, and the subjects are Julie Conrad and her cat Kalamari.

Headshot and Bio October 2, 2008

I don’t take many pictures of myself. Other people often don’t photograph me either, so I have very few to choose from. Pictures of me only come up once every few months. I chose it because it’s my most recent photograph, and I feel more comfortable describing the “present me”. I didn’t beautify myself much before I took it; I didn’t wear makeup and didn’t take off my glasses. I only bent my head down a bit to make my face look longer than normal. I hate the shape of my face because it looks weird to me, especially the shape of my chin and jaw, Sometimes I wish my face was pointier. The mood of my face reflects a quiet and serious personality. I don’t talk very much and prefer listening instead. That white stuffed animal behind my head is a giant dog, which my friend Kelly gave me for free. I’m a frequent freeloader. I like collecting stuff that other people don’t want, because I believe these things will somehow be useful in the future, whether or not I’m using them for purposes they were intended for. The dog makes a very good seat when I’m doing homework on my bed, and while it takes up a lot of space in my cubicle-sized side of the dorm, I’m glad I have it. The visual weight of this photograph focuses on the right hand side, throwing the balance off. If we interpret this imbalance as a sign of oddity or abnormality, we can discern that I have a very abnormal personality. A small view of the background in the upper left-hand corner illustrates my messy lifestyle.