chaptah 8.

This chapter is called "Constructing Meaning".  Its a talks about "building bridges" between the viewer and the art piece. We choose pieces to make or look at that effect us in a way that some times can be logically explained verbally and some just effect you in a way you cant speak words at all. Good pieces of work use language, iconography, grabbing the attention of the audience, using words or pictures that make us believe what they are trying to explain through the piece even though all your life you have believed in the opposite; thats what makes a good piece in my opinion.
One piece that caught my eye in the chapter was Shi Jinsong's Na Zha Cradle. I personally like to call it the Death cradle because its a stainless steel cradle with majestic ax like cradle bars at the bottom and sharp materials hanging from the mobile.

Chaptah 6.

This Lovely chapter i am reading is titled "Cultivating Creativity".  Creativity and design is similar in the fact that you got to look in the past what are things  or ideas that you can make better. We use rational thinking which in simple terms is to think with logic not with "wants" for now but for "needs" as in necessary to achieve such goals. and we also use intuitive thinking, which using your instincts to move the piece in a direction that feels right not because your lazy and want to put it there. that never feels right. To some rational thinking and intuitive thinking can be contradictory which i agree can be but it depends on if you have that magic power that if you just thinking intuitively it works out perfectly. some days i feel magical, most days there is more logic to my designs. Chapter six also talks about the ways of thinking about work and the habits involved with projects which i believe was a good section to read about. It doesnt neccesarily just mean in working on art projects but i felt it can be used in daily life.

Chaptah 5

Chaptah five is a spicy little chapter about the importance of "Problem seeking, and problem solving". This chapter covers the many ways to research a project before starting it well i guess you could say it would be the first step to working on your project. I know for my job its important to come up with a game plan before making a logo i need to know where exactly the company is wanting to go business wise and so i can make sure their new logo that i am making follows the same parameters they want to express. Is this a modern restaurant or business? if so then make a sleek modern design. if its traditional then use traditional text for god sake. My advice is do your research just like the book says. NO ONE!! likes going into a meeting or showing their piece of art work and not having the correct information backing up the piece.

chaptah 7

Chapter seven is all about critical thinking. I liked this chapter because it gave me some new perspective on how to critique a piece of art to get down to the nitty gritty and really analyze each inch of it.

pretty much. be honest, be classy use your manners when nicely ripping into your own work or someone elses. 

chaptah 4.

Chapter 4 is about creating the illusion of space. Which this was a good read for me because I like linear perspective I think it’s a very interesting topic. Learning about linear perspective in the past has helped me with my landscape designs, especially city scape designs. One- point perspective is used for drawings, paintings, pretty much what ever you want to make whether is a frontal or areal view of a city, beach, a person in a crowed its to pull the viewer into the image. Two-point perspective is used when you are trying to show an object at an angle, it could be the same scenery example as what I said about one-point perspective just angled differently to the point where you are visually trying to look at two points in the distant normally placed on two opposite sides of the landscape design. This chapter is also about motion, and how to properly display it. In my opinion, motion is probably the hardest thing for me to draw. 

chaptah 3

Chapter 3 is about principles of two dimensional design, for example when drawing you could ask yourself “ why did I draw that person looking in that direction? Am I going to draw something in the back ground to show why that person is looking? Should I draw it in that person’s visual direction? (probably, no one likes looking right in the yonder and seeing nothing there, but there’s clearly something there in the left side of the art work. Its just plain confusing)” so yeah, pretty much the things to know is balance, symmetry, patterns, proportion, flow of the piece(rhythm).

RHYTHEM OF THE NIGHT!

PRETTY MUCH THis chapter made me think of this song.

CHAPTAH 2

Chapter two of “Launching the Imagination” is about the element of color. I really liked this chapter because it showed how important color is to the piece of art. 
Im really interested in design and color schemes, so this chapter was perfect for me. 
I have always had a problem with using just two colors of complementary color system for working on an art piece. It just bugged me and in away was extremely disharmonious to me. I respect the colors green and red being complimentary colors but there’s something about those two colors in a art piece with out other colors just gets to me. So I am extremely positive about split complementary color schemes and triadic color schemes. Lately I have been on a flat color style of design. It’s used a lot for new applications for phones, tablets, and other technological tools. I’ve realized that in the past two years colors choices have changed dramatically. Choral, mint, tans, are being used more for accent colors when used properly. Flat blues, reds, greens, purples are used more in application type design right now which are understandable because the reds, yellows, blues, and greens, are normally used to show importance they kind of have their own special lingo. So if you look on google.com, you can see their color schemes for their apps are red, blue, yellow, green.  msn.com has red, yellow, blue, and green in their logo and web design color scheme.

chapter 1

Chapter one of “Launching the Imagination” is about the elements of two- dimensional design. These elements are line, shape, texture, value and color. 
The chapter discusses why they are important for an art piece to have these elements. 
I felt reading this chapter was slightly repretitive due to the fact that I have had previous experience in two-dimensional design but I thought it was also a good refresher. I wouldn’t say I am perfect at it, far from it so it was nice revisiting and learning more about value and texture portion of the chapter.  it was very informative. It made me think about what is more important is it the lines, or the shapes, well if you think about it lines create the shape. there for shape is just an idea of multiple lines forming together. And texture is definitely important but what if you don’t have texture, then that’s definitely a factor one must take in to discuss or visualize the piece better. Value is important because it shows the the direction of light, which is important for realistic drawings, shading is effected by light tremendously. Finding the right color or colors when drawing or painting is important because color grabs the eyes of the looker and depending on what color scheme one uses it might work out and grab their attention or it might make the looker look away cuz it is tremendously horrible color scheme

a good quote from my hero.

“Art, in its most technical and creative forms – isn’t something that belongs to these special gifted snowflakes – it’s for anyone. How relatively good or knowledgeable you get at it, is just a simple matter of much you’re willing to let it consume and permeate every fiber of your being. That willingness to put your entirety into something to the point of obsession, regardless of what it is — that … that’s something that might not be in everyone.”-Sam Spratt 

http://samspratt.com

It's quotes like this, that form great ideas and I believe that everyone should have the chance and the resources to do the things we get to do every day. what I'm talking about is digital art, Guys. its important to know the simplest web or graphic design is part of a bigger picture that is life.

critique away my friends...

So I made a digital collage for one of my classes and it would be super awesome if anyone would like to give me some feed back on it.

"internal struggle of the un-natural kind"