Loved this project! At 1st it seemed a little overwhelming but it ended up being a lot of fun! Had my neighbors & son helping me by posing in some of the pictures & they had a blast too.
So i simply named my slideshow "Elements & Principles of Art." Ill give you just a brief description of each picture & the reason I chose each.
1.) Line: This picture of the train tracks & the telephone lines show movement. From the angle the picture was taken (from on the tracks), u can almost feel like you're on the train, rushing along the tracks, watching the telephones rise to each pole, then dip, then rise to the next pole.
2.) Shape: The bowl of beach glass represents shape, because it is sort of a triangle shape, but also has rounded edges, so u see "triangle"....but only sort of. It's more of an implied shape.
3.) Mass: I used the photo of the bridge to represent mass because the bridge is a 3-dimensional form that occupies a volume of space. You can tell the bridge 3-dimensional because it casts a shadow, & you can see the width, height, & sides of it.
4.) Light: The picture of the sky represents light in the sense that it simply glows through the clouds. It is a very beautiful & awe-inspiring picture.
5.) Color: I chose the picture of the visual effects from a concert I went to because it shows the versatility of the color red. The text book talks about the emotional effects of Munch's use of red in "The Scream" (which I have hanging in my hallway), & how it represents intensity, horror & anguish. In the picture I chose though, that isn't the feeling that was projected in the use of the color red. There were what looked like ruins in front of the barely visible image of the setting sun, & the feeling I got when looking at this was quite different that the horror & anguish in "The Scream."
6.) Texture: The picture of butters the puppy & the grass represents texture because when I look at it I feel like I can feel the lush green grass under my feet, & just by looking you can tell how soft this little guy is.
7.) Pattern: I used the picture of the stones in the water for pattern because even thought they are not all the same size, shape & color, they repeat seemingly endlessly in a beautiful pattern of colors.
8.) Space: The picture of the road represents space because the picture had depth, & the road ends at a vanishing point in the distant horizon.
9.) Time: I used a picture of the 100 stairs in Chestnut Ridge park to represent time because they have been there for ever, & you can see the missing bricks & erosion that have happened over time.
10.) Motion: The picture of my brother's dog Corto was a total fluke, & I somehow got him shaking his head so fast it created a swirling effect in the photo representing motion.
11.)Unity: I used the wine bottles in front of the wooden shed because they are the same height, color, & thing, & the shed is repetitive wooden slats.
12.) Variety: The picture of the beach glass & stones on the black bandanna show the variety of shapes, sized & colors in the rocks & glass, & the black bandanna against the lighter shades is a strong contrast.
13.) Balance: The wood wind chimes represent asymmetrical balance because all the different chimes hang at different levels.
14.) Emphasis: In the picture with the floating beach ball, the sun, & the hands about to clap emphasis is portrayed by the fact that all the emphasis is on those 2 items in the picture, but the rest of the crowd are still important elements, although they sort of fade into the background.
15.) Subordination: My son Payton in the trees shows subordination because the trees are in the foreground, but Payt is thing your vision focuses on, so the trees, although prominent, become secondary.
16.) Scale: Butters the puppy & the enormous tennis ball represent scale because the normal size of a tennis ball would be small in comparison to even a puppy, but the scale of this ball to Butters is abnormal.
17.) Proportion: The bushes represent proportion due to the fact that they are the same type of plant, but 1 is larger than the other 1.
18.) Rhythm: The stone stairs represent rhythm because when you look at it you can almost feel yourself running up them to the rhythm of stair-climbing
I really enjoyed this project & I hope you enjoyed my explanations for my picture choices, because I had a lot of fun putting this together.
I really enjoyed looking at your pictures. They were very interesting. I liked your picture for time of the stairs at Chestnut ridge. The wear and tear of the stairs shows a history behind it. They look like they have been there for such a long time. I also like the picture of the stones in the water for pattern. I find them very pretty and relaxing to look at. Your pictures were very helpful in understanding the elements and principles of art.
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