Modular Madness Progress

Adding words to art :-O

 So we had to pick a quote out of the quotes we had chosen before. The quote I picked was "If at first you don't succeed, order pizza."

 We had to print out the quote in different sizes and incorporate it into some of our drawings.

I wanna go to a carnival now!

We had to make a mark making device. I thought about something that would be very efficient and make some awesome marks so I went ahead and made a swing type device. The pictures below show some of it in action and one picture during assembly.

Is that what I think it is??! TURTLE!

 So this is how my texture project turned out.  It has evolved sooo much into something that I can actually call art.

Final Critique

I got overall good critique on this project like "You've done good." but they did point out a couple things to me that I was able to write down. One such thing is that the text background gives continuance to the piece. It makes you move through and look at the whole thing. It runs you back and forth from the border back into the dots. They told me it shows closure definitely. "It looks like a turtle in a box!" I was told that with the bold shiny dots and the bold shiny border that the text does kind of fall into the background and is not as prominent as it could be. The negative feedback I got for the mints being in the container is that they just wanted to eat them and couldn't. They did like how the mints were round and continued the feel of the circles inside the square.

When they looked at my other textures they told me that I def. chose the right texture for this composition. The radial manner of the texture draws you into the circles. Some critique I received for my other textures was that some of them were similar although I had spaced them out well in the book that it was hard to really tell unless you looked really close. The overall craft of the book and textures was good they said but there were a couple spots that could be touched up and smoothed out. There was one top edge that really bugged some of the group members because the rest of the edges were so cleanly cut.

What are you BUILDING?!?

This was the first outcome of my attempts at the 3d. I did end up adding an inch black border on each side. But then I was told it looked too plain and there wasn't enough variation in heights. So I raised the border! I also worked out an idea for changing up the heights a bit!

8 Text As Textures!

These are my 8 text as textures. I used different techniques for all of them. My group helped me out with ideas on what to do with them and so did my family.

Final 2 Playful / Periodic and Critique

These are my final 2 compositions! I chose this playful composition on the left because I love the story it tells. The story and tension overpowered my other choice in my mind. I chose this periodic on the right because it just felt more... periodic... different periods in time, space, and different periods in the composition.

Critique

The critique on these were helpful. I got hints that the craft could be improved a little and to change up the size of the squares a little more as they seemed too similar. On some of the squares edges I got out of the lines a bit that I didn't originally notice. On the periodic square I was also told that they thought I should have made negative space on the sides of the squares to match the negative space on the top and bottom. I did have good news though. They could tell right away which composition was which and they had seen much worse craft. They had also said that the movement of the boxes falling in the playful composition was very well displayed. Then they also said though that they think the smaller squares in the playful composition might have looked better if they had no negative space under them.