Special Edition Shoe Post - Week 10

Cream of the Crop

Have you ever day dreamed about an evening with ice cream?

The cold sweetness seeping into the taste buds of your hot tongue?

I bet you’ve never ever thought of having this tasty treat in a shoe!

Well ladies, however you have your ice cream, enjoy it. When you’ve had a long day at work, after losing those last five pounds, or if your sweet-tooth is ice skating around your tummy, use it as a time to relax and enjoy one of life’s treats.

Make it an excuse to have some time to yourself. Cozy up to a book and escape into the words of a new world. Lose yourself in comfort and pleasure. Enjoyment of food can be therapeutic if one will allow one’s self to be treated. As a young lady maturing into womanhood, I’m learning to appreciate some of the small meaningful things in life. It’s important to not let the hustle and bustle of the day consume your peace of mind. So slip into chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, sherbet, or whatever kind of girl you are and enter you own made up retreat for just a little while. Indulge into your bowl of bliss.

Week 10

Relaxing with Ice Cream

Craft

I began this piece in Adobe Illustrator. I brought the images from Adobe using the "Place" function and the traditional copy and paste. I used the "fit content to frame" function to adjust my bordered image according to the square shape I placed it in. I created a text box using the "text tool." I pasted my content written from a word document into it for my body content. For my title, I created text boxes and hand typed the information into them. I used my "black arrow" to place objects where I wanted them to be and used the "rotation tool" to rotate my objects in various directions.

Concept

The concept of this piece is to show how comfortable and pleasurable ice cream is. The article expresses to women that ice cream treats can be turned into spa retreats; a time where she can relax and gain a piece of mind. This is important for every woman as well as individuals in general and ice cream is a great treat to help woman acknowledge this time.

Composition

The idea of the location of my objects are free formed. The ice cream balls are placed sporadically. The framed picture and text are more structured and aligned on top of each other.

Week 9

Magazine layout 1: Diametric Expressionism

Craft

Using InDesign, a new document was opened under a letter size setting for a 6 page spread. This image represents the 2nd and 3rd page of the overall spread. First, the box tool was used to create a box where the Diametric Expressionism picture was "placed" into the box by selecting the file tab and the "place" option. This option opened a new window where I was able to search for the image and place it into the box. From there I was able to size the box by using my black arrow and dragging the corners of the box. Then in order to get my image to perfectly line up within the frame of my box I left clicked, selected the fitting option, and the"fit content to frame" option. The I selected the text box again to add text which I used the text or "T" tab to do so. I repeated the same process for the two smaller images that I used for the Diametric Expressionism image. Finally, I drew a rectangle with the box tool, filled it with the color black and moved it to the background of the right side of the spread.

Concept

This layout plays on the style which incorporates opposites. The most repetitive and obvious opposites in this piece are the contrasts (contrasts in color the black and white background, text, and images against the background and scale text and images).

Composition

The first thing that someone may notice when looking at this spread in a magazine is the white background of page 1 against the black background of page 2. The dominant contrast of the two pages draws the reader in; even the white words on the back page and the black words on the white page because highly contrasted. The use of the black box on the white background adds to the coordination and relationship between the two pages in the spread. (This was mostly intentional). The repetitions of black and white cause an intense interest and a sharpness about the spread. The pop of color from the orange Fire piece centered on the black page also adds a lower form of contrast than the white; yet on the white page the mixture of the black and hue of oranges, yellows, greens, and purples creates a mixture of high and low contrast. Again, the repetition of the mixture of high and low contrast carries on in the black box atop with the author on the white page. The scale of the first picture is much larger than that of the second and third pictures, which makes the second feel more of a feature and the first the focus of the article. The name of the article is in the larger scaled picture and repeated as the title of the article, in which one can assume its the title, not because of the picture, but because of the change in font style use for the title and its scale in contrast to the other text.

Week 8

Diametric Expressionism

Fire

My Style

Craft (How to get this style.)

For My Style, I used my electronic pencil and hand wrote my style name "diametric expressionism." Then I applied color to the name with my black arrow selecting each I applied the color from the color tab. Next I duplicated the name by using my layers tab and dragging the layers of each word to the duplication tool within the tab. I duplicated this smaller version and turned them in different directions using my black arrow tool until I created a pattern and the name became subliminal.

In the work Fire, using Adobe Illustrator, I began with an electronic hand drawing of a hand lotion bottle, using an electron pencil and the pen tool, while holding the lotion at an angle where I could only see the top. Then, I used the brushes tab, choosing the first charcoal ink brush in the specified items list and applied it to my hand drawn object to create the ink styled brush stroke. Next, I added a solid color to the background using a burnt or hot orange from the color tab. Afterwards, I wrote in five different handwritten font styles the word "fire"; I gave color to four of the words: black, red, yellow, and orange. This is created by using the command shift key to group each word individually, using the black arrow to selected the text, and then the color tab to add the color. Then, I used the shape tool to create a circle around the lotion top image. Next, I duplicated all the words various times in the layers tool by dragging each grouped layer to the duplicate layer tool within the tab.

From there I grouped the various fonts and colors all over the backdrop to create a sort of pattern, but I did not entangle them in the circle or the top. Accordingly, I selected my circle with the black arrow and then selected the effects window where I used the distortions option and the roughen effect which created the jagged black perimeter where I increased the line point from 1pt. to 5pt. Finally I selected the swatches tab and chose a brown and apply this color to the fill of the circle and then used the opacity effect to soften the color.

Concept (What is this style?)

Diametric Expressionism is my unique style that combines opposites. It contrasts images of chaos with images order. Diametric is defined as two complete opposites and Expressionism is a poplar art style that exhibit order in the mist of chaos with positive, emotional, and artistic styles. In my works I juxtaposed order and chaos through texts and images.

The My Style piece is basically my self expressing itself through text and image.

In Fire, my favorite piece from my series in the diametric expressionism style, where I have used earthly disasters experienced by humans as the design inspiration, uses the word "fire" in a chaotic frenzy of text that directly evokes chaos in the image like fire would to a building. The object in the center is also chaotic with its charcoal ink medium in doubled circular tight lines that create and abstract look. It's also encircled with a chaotic roughen styled circle; however, the background both inside the circle and the entire image are regular or plain. They are the exact opposite of the chaotic lines, text, and images. Especially inside the circle, there is a calm structure feel that is juxtaposed against both the circle and the object.

The color in this piece is simply the typical colors seen in a flame or fire. The reds, blacks, greys, browns, oranges, and yellows all represent the disaster of fire and its consummation buildings, people, and things.

Composition (How does this style go?)

The general arrangement for diametric expressionism is for the opposites to be separate. Those images, text, and colors that are chaotic are separate from those that are calm or regular. The most common "arrangement" in this style is the repetition of text and color. The repetition of these create the chaos, where as the plain-ness of the non-repeated images hold the regularity. The scale of repeated texts or chaos are large in both pictures compared to the scale of order or regularity it seems. It may depend on the viewer as to which is larger of scale.

Week 7

Fire
Flames are hot.

Flames are bright.

Flames erase.

Tornado

Tornadoes move fast.

Tornadoes blow away all.

Tornadoes turn us upside down or right side up.

Volcano

Volcanoes burn.

Volcanoes errupt.

Volcanoes cause change chemically.

Earthquake
Earthquakes shake us.

Earthquakes make us question.

Earthquakes open us.

Landslide

Landslide arise by fault.

Landslides arise by nature.

Landslide don't arise.

Style Series

Given my style "Diametric Expressionism" have words like chaos, opposites, order, and emotion that express its definition. I thought about things that humans experience and different natural disasters came to mind. These disasters tend to bring chaos to our world, but its also unique how there is an order to which these events occur that indicates the experience to us.

Craft: In illustrator, first I hand drew electronically a bottle of women's hand lotion. I positioned the bottle in various positions and used lines to make out the object. Then I used a charcoal design to convert the basic lines into an abstract image and added a different color background drop to each picture by using my box tool. Next, I used my electronic pen and in some cases my mouse, to create the title of each piece using the pen tool. In the various pieces I created the titles in different hand written styles. I added different colors to these styles after research different tragedies for each kind of disaster and finding the dominate colors in each.

Concept: Each of these piece conveys a different type of natural disaster. In the words the name the disaster, the colors are those that you may see when experience the disaster, and the form it that of the disaster. Although these piece don't play on our actual emotions to feel happy or sad, they do make us feel as though we are experiencing or remembering the disaster when looking at the art.

Composition: The contrast in these piece are mostly low, the black against the background colors. The hues range from light to dark with reds and blues to yellows and greens. Those most interesting of these compositions are the forms they take on using the text. Each form is heavy and make the background colors, even if they are dark, seem light because of the compared simplicity. Last, they are all diverse in overall color pallet and shape.