Friday, March 27, 2009

My eyes automatically go the Polly's bright pink shirt. The colors in this photo are very brilliant and loud except for Brooke who is wearing a plain-jane gray shirt. I notice the color in this photograph before I notice what they are doing. Polly is teaching us how to cook dumplings.
There are 3 girls in this picture. Two girls are Asian and one is white. The girl to the right is wearing a pink shirt, the girl in the middle is wearing a blue shirt, and the girl on the left is wearing a gray shirt. There is a table in front of them with news paper on it and a large silver bowl reflecting light. They are making some sort of food, in this case, dumplings.
There is not much line quality but I suppose the table leads the eye to the three girls. The color is crazy bright and the reflection of the bowl is neat but doesn't take away form the picture. The girls don't seem like they are floating in space so the placement in space is good.
Yes it tells a story. It's the story of dorm life and how little room we have to cook in. The small space behind the girls is a small kitchen but it's very hard to see. It shows how many people you meet in college and how diverse our campus is.
Elizabeth's work is very colorful. It is very abstract and this photograph is not. There are more colors in her work as well. Her work is free and fun. My photo is not as crazy as her work, but it is very interesting to look at.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

What I notice first is my smile in this picture. It seems to be a little bit fake to me, but it works for the assignment. It makes me feel happy and affects me in a positive way. It makes me feel happy and knowing this a happy time in my life.
There is a girl with long, brown, straight hair. She is wearing a pink shirt and has large brown eyes. There is a white cabinet in the back ground. There is also a Towel rack in the background with dark colored towels with detail on them. I am obviously holding the camera to take my own picture.
The composition is very good. Line quality is very crisp and clear. The lighting and and the color seem to be very good. The placement in space could be better and there could be more information in the background.
The photo does tell a story it makes you feel happy. I look excited in the picture even though it is just a plain picture. It makes me think that it is a good day and couldn't be any better. It makes someone who looks at it smile and if you knew me really well, it would probably make you laugh and say "what is she doing?" One word i would use to describe this is "happy".
My photograph is much more conservative than Jean's artwork. His work had more nudity in it and I would never do something like that. Jean's work is very good and had a lot of time put into the thought and process of making them.

Friday, March 6, 2009


When I first see this picture I notice the white bottle standing out from the brown carpet. Whenever I see a bottle like this one, I always think of a headache because usually asprin comes in this kind of bottle. It also make me weary, becuase I am alergic to Ibuprofen so I need to be careful. Almost anyone sees this picture will think of headache medicine.
The background is a extremely dark and textured. It looks somewhat soft, but would be an uncomfortable night of sleep. There is a white medicine bottle with the directions facing towards the viewers. There is a child-saftey cap on the bottle so one knows that it is dangerous if i child were to eat it as if it were candy. There is a shadow on the carpet from the bottle facing the left side of the format.
The bottle might look like it were floating if there were no shadow showing the placement in space. There is not much color in this photo but I believe with the textured carpet and the unique placement on the floor.
This photo doesn't tell a story. It is just a bottle on the carpet. It may look interesting and if I were to name this photo with one word it would be "aches." Medicine is meant to help aches and pains and thats what I think of when i see this picture.
This photo relates to William's in that there are dark colors and shadow represented in his drawings. The only thing that seems to be different is the subject matter and how it is portrayed. William mostly has picture of people sitting, perhaps in mourning. My photo is less intresting and his subjects are harder to draw.