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.