Assignment 8 - Traditional Space

James (Tony) Lang
Assignment 7 - Edges
14 April 2015

For this assignment we were to create a piece that shows either traditional spaces or equivocal spaces. I decided to try my hand at what was deemed the harder of the two. I used a disappearing edge to make to create a sense of space at the top but I definitely mistakenly flattened the piece by using a darker and more saturated color for the smaller rectangles that are supposed to be farther away.

Assignment 7 - Edges

James (Tony) Lang
Assignment 7 - Edges
14 April 2015

For this assignment we were to create compositions that dealt with edges. The piece on top had to contain edges that disappear when looking at it while the second piece needed to have edges that vibrate, again making it hard to locate the exact edge of the piece.
I felt that my vibrating edges solution was better than my disappearing edges solution. I felt my design was stronger since it was made from scratch and I tried to keep placement of my shapes at interesting distances from each other. I also mined out the shapes like how we did in assignment two. I do believe my disappearing edges piece solves the problem just not in an interesting way, I did take a design from assignment two and tried to play with it in a way that would help the edges disappear. I also thing the extremely dark colors was a tad too easy way off making the edges disappear.

Assignment 6 - Transformations

James (Tony) Lang
Assignment 6 - Transformations
2 April 2015

For this assignment I made two different color transformations. The first one (on top) was the easier one, using the same hue (green) but trying to match the change in brightness between the bigger squares and the smaller rectangles to give the illusion of transparency. For this particular piece I think I did alright except for the bottom rectangles which does not have enough difference in brightness between the two. Now for second, more difficult problem (on bottom) it was the same as the first with the addition of changing the colors by a single hue, again creating the illusion of transparency. My goal was to shift the hue towards red within the rectangles and to make it darker. Yet when I stepped away from this piece, not having my face so close to it, I noticed that the only one that moved darker was the rectangle on brown while the rest where brighter than the color they were on.