Patterns and Texture

Below are 15 examples of texture from found objects around my house and yard.

From left to right:

Slate, string, carnival glass, dried spice, lace, marble,
cloth pocketbook, metal tile, 1" glass tiles, bubble wrap,
dried hydrangea, leaves, guitar strap, bundled sage, yarn.

Below is a grayscale image created from my texture samples.
The circle in the middle is 50% black.

Texture Assignment

The first picture below is one from my selection of scanned textures. It's a piece of tile made out of carnival glass. The photo on the right is a watercolor painting which gives the illusion of glass.

I included the photograph of the ocean because it fits so well in the middle (visually). Both the glass tile and the watercolor painting look like they could be abstracts of the ocean photograph.

In addition, I like the progression of the pictures from left to right -- the wide sweeping monochromatic design of the tile to the slightly more colorful ocean photo to the much more colorful and tightly curved design of the watercolor painting.

For these designs, I used a caned chair and a rounded metal garbage can. . . I originally created designs with the white space as my focus. I realized that I was supposed to focus on the negative space, which I ended up doing but I found it difficult to keep my focus on the black.

Shape/Volume Examples

Rectilinear
I chose this painting by Ivan Alexeevich Kudriashev, entitled Construction of a Rectilinear Motion as an example of Rectilinear art. The painting caught my eye because it so clearly represent an artwork created with straight edges, producing a sharp angular feeling. In addition, the placement of the shapes remind me of an object shooting across the sky, leaving a long vapor trail behind it, possibly because linear shapes and straight lines seem to depict fast motion.
Photo found here.

Curvilinear
I chose to display the typeface “Art Nouveau Bistro” because, as mentioned in the reading, art nouveau style emphasized curvilinear shapes.

Naturalistic
This painting by Edinelson Ramirez, of the Basin Harbor represents naturalistic art, because its aim is to represent the true-to-life visual appearance of the world around us.

Idealistic
This is debatable, but I chose these action figures as art that represents the world as it should be . . . (at least for the people that are playing with these action figures) and they are an exaggerated version of what many might consider an ideal look for a man -- muscular, fit, wearing little underpants and a cape . . ;-D

Abstract
This painting, Midnight Jazz”, represent Abstract art. I was interested to read that abstracttion if a simplification of natural shapes to their essential basic character. I am sure I’ve referred to many “non-objective” designs as abstract. I had not made the distinction between abstract being a distortion of something familiar, whereas non-objective refers to shapes with no object reference and no subject matter suggestion.

Non-Objective
This bracelet is an example of non-objective sculptural design. The artists’ goal is to make a mini-sculpture that can be worn.

Jewelry site here

Four Line Drawings - Contour, Blind Contour, 2 Gesture

Four Expressions of Volume with Line

Four verbs expressed by lines through wet media

Four emotions created with lines with dry media

Multimedia Apps and Tools Web Address

This is the link to my Multimedia Apps and Tools page

I chose a photo of an ocean wave as the basis for my expression of sound. The four kinesthetic rhythm designs represent Gurgle, Monotone, Loud and Soothing.

My black and white design of sound displays movement through an emphasis on progressive rhythm.