What I've Been Up To! Metamorphosis Project

This is all for a project in which we have to morph one image to another. The theme is social justice and we could pick any social justice theme we wanted. I chose bullying. More specifically, the bullying of girls who are not overweight, but are normal size girls who aren't tall and thin runway models. The morph shows how destructive taunting and bullying can be.

This picture is ALL of the pictures I gathered in the beginning so I could start tracing, collaging, and building the beginning and end pictures of my morph.

After I gathered my pictures, I started sketching and tracing bits and pieces of the images onto vellum paper. Vellum is like tracing paper but more crisp and velvety. I tried a lot of different things and went a lot of different ways in the beginning.

After I was done sketching, being frustrated, and doing absolutely nothing in class except playing with my kneaded eraser for a few days, I came up with these final sketches. I decided to keep these because they best represent my message. The first image for the morph is the top left image, and the last image for the morph is the top right.

This tiny pictures is actually of the morphing process. I have to add one more between number 2 and three so there isn't such a drastic change. I also have other details to add and fix on images 4 and 5. I'll be sure to post the final morph!

Peace and Love!

Shape Project

For this project, we were learning about designing figures in a format and establishing a visual relationship between these figures. We had to use overlapping, interlocking, mutual tension, abutting, and continuity. We also worked with forming a figure ground relationship. The white ground had to be an active element, meaning that it had to support the overall design, rather than just being a frame around the figure.

The design above is supposed to fit the parameters of the first design we had to do for this project. The parameters were to, "Cut a 4 inch black square of construction paper. Then cut it to make a flat, non objective design on white 8 by 10 paper. Cut and arrange it so that viewers will not recognize the original square." I used mutual tension in the circle of the middle of all the triangles and between the long rectangle and all the triangles. I used a little overlapping in the section with the triangles as well to make is feel like a continuous circle of triangles. 

I actually had a lot of fun with the design above. The parameters of this design were to use the 4 inch square and cut it up into pieces and make a flat abstract design on 8 by 10 ground and destroy the identity of the square. I began cutting bits and when I cut the "trunk" of the tree by total accident, I realized it looked like the trunk of a tree. I made the tree barren and added one lone leaf because it shows the autumn season coming, and the lone leaf symbolizes how it is coming very slowly for me. I love fall and I feel like it is taking a really long time for it to roll around this year.