Dot designs

Closure

Similarity

Proximity

Continuance

Cardboard nature project

Observations

• Sharp ends
• Hard/stiff not easily broken
• ranges from dark gray/brown to a light brown in color
• looks like weathered wood- meaning it has:

• indents
• holes
• branches
• knots
• ridges...

  

Cardboard                                       

• brown
• bendable
• has three layers

  To create this object out of cardboard...I'm planning on starting from the base an building up in layers, slowly adding more details. 

Friday 8/27/2010 Lecture Summary

Composition is the organization of ideas, principles, and elements that make up something. Compositions can be found in:

• Writing, Music, Nature,Visual, Dance, and Theater

Elements

• Point, Line, Shape/form, Color (hue), Texture, Space, and Value (shade)

Principles-

• Rhythm, Harmony, Dissonance/discord

Gestalt- "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts"
Form- sum total of an objects physical characteristics.

The Amazing Newspaper Tower!

Our first project was to build a tower out of newspapers and tape!
I began by building the base of my tower. I rolled up newspapers then taped them all together...kind of like a firecracker. I tested the base out and it worked!! Now I just had to gain some height...

 So now I began to build the top half. After I finished the top portion of my tower I wanted to test it out to see if it could support the weight of the cinder block before taping it to the base, and I succeeded! 


Now for the finished tower, both the base and the top were taped together. 


The last step was to test the strength of my tower with a cinder block...Failed... the tower couldn't support the weight of the block, because the tower kept collapsing from where the top and the base were connected.