Monday, August 31, 2015

Pattern, Space, and Texture

(Author's note: click the links to see the pictures, the picture inserting tool was not working with me.)
Pattern - means the repetition of an element (or elements) in a work
The cloth, skin, and background of this painting have a repeating design and color pallet.

Texture - the perceived surface quality of a work of art
 The paint was layered to create the feathered look, and even more on the swirls.

Tactile texture - Appealing to the sense of touch
The brush strokes were used to make the feather look textured.

Visual texture - Appealing to the sense of sight
The shading makes the scales look real to the eye.

Collage - a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another
Different types of paper were used to form the different parts of the picture.

Verisimilitude - To reproduce what we perceive to be real
With such attention to the smallest details, it was made to look like a real loaf of bread sitting in front of you.

Trompe l’oeil - translates from French to mean "fools the eye"
Again, the smallest details make it look real and in front of you.

Overlapping - the placement of objects over one another in order to create the illusion of depth
The glasses are placed in front of one another in the photo.

One point perspective - means that the drawing has a single vanishing point
the drawing is drawn to make the buildings seem to disappear into the horizon.

Two point perspective - linear perspective in which parallel lines along the width and depth of an object are represented as meeting at two separate points on the horizon that are 90 degrees apart as measured from the common intersection of the lines of projection.
the drawing is drawn to make the chess board look like its equal to eye level and disappear on the horizon.

Multi-point perspective – A technique in which two or more vanishing points are used to create the illusion of depth on a flat surface
the drawing is drawn to make objects disappear into multiple points of view.

Aerial perspective the technique of representing more distant objects as fainter and more blue.
the drawing is drawn to make it look like the viewer is up in the sky.

Amplified perspective - the exaggerated use of linear perspective to achieve a dramatic and engaging presentation of the subject. Amplified perspective is often created using an unusual viewing position
The picture is taken to make the dogs nose bigger then it really is in proportion to the rest of the dogs body.

Vertical position – an object or subject that follows a vertical line
The dart is drawn linear with a vertical line.

Isometric projection - an axonometric projection in which the three spatial axes of the object are represented as equally inclined to the drawing surface and equal distances along the axes are drawn equal.
The picture was created in a technical form as if one were to build it. 

Open form - A form with irregular or broken contour, having a sense of growth, change or unresolved tension
The rest of the woman's body is left to the viewers imagination.

closed form - A self-contained or explicitly limited form; Having a resolved balance of tensions and a sense of calm completeness implying a totality within itself
The woman was drawn with in the edges of the paper.

Transparency - something transparent, especially a picture, design, or the like on glass or some translucent substance, made visible by light shining through from behind

The jellyfish body was created in order to look transparent to the eye.