Final Designs

Art Movement : Post - Impressionism.

Reference Artist : Pierre Bonnard.

Theme Chosen : Environmentalism

Visual Treatment: The tree and the girl in the bark is to symbolize that we and the trees are linked and equal. No one life is greater than another. The colour used were cool tones for the trees an warm tones for the face.

Elements of Design

Lines - the path of a point

Straight lines to create length that move in various directions.

Shapes - perceivable areas.

The shape of the face on the bark of the tree stands out compared to the bark and greens.

Value - Light.

There are dark and light tones to show depth and lighting effect.

Colors - basic colour theory

Green used as a background,Brown as the tree bark.

Texture - surface quality

Wooden texture.

Eye movement - the visual path our eye will follow

The main eye movement is towards the face in the bark.

Principles of Design

Hierarchy

There is not much hierarchy, but the focus is slightly more on the brown tree.

Balance - equalizing the visual weight of elements

The left side shows more tree and the right side shows more background.

Scale - overall size

The man part covers 3/4 of the canvas. So the background is not emphasized much.

Unity/variety

There are not much usage of variation in this work, especially in the use of colours, shapes, and lines. However, there is also a sense of unity as all parts of the work work together to provide a sense of togetherness.

Art Movement : Post - Impressionism.

Reference Artist : Pierre Bonnard.

Theme Chosen : Environmentalism

Visual treatment: The girl is to represent that amounts of air pollution is increasing in the world. The colour used were cool tones for the sky and warm for the girl. The main concept behind this artwork is the hair also symbolizes clouds in the sky and as we grow older, our hair grows longer at the same time, and the air pollution also increase equivalent to the length of the hair.

Elements of Design

Lines - the path of a point

Curvy of continuous line.

Shapes - perceivable areas.

Oval face, non-geometric shape.

Value - relative light and darkness

High contrast of brown between the hair and face.

Texture - surface quality

Sky texture with shades of blue,green,and violet to create the depth.

Alignment - lining of elements

Alignment of cloud. Bigger in front and smaller at the back to create the depth.

Proportion - relative size of the object

Main proportion is on the face and the hair at the bottom part. Go smaller as its goes up.

Eye movement - the visual path our eye will follow

Basically, the work directs us to see the movement of the hair as it move up.

Principles of Design

Balance - equalizing the visual weight of elements

There is no symmetrical balance because there is more emphasis on the bottom part of the artwork. However, there is symmetrical balance between the left side and the right side of the face.

Rhythm/repetition

There is rhythm and repetition on the hair part to create the similar feel throughout the hair. 

Scale - overall size

Overall, the artwork is wider at the bottom and slowly becomes smaller towards the top. 

Unity/variety

There are much usage of variation in this work, especially in the use of colors, shades, shapes, and lines. However, there is also a sense of unity as all parts of the work work together to provide a sense of togetherness.

Focal Point 

The emphasis, or main focus of the artwork is the face and the hair which goes upwards as if to emphasis the height or length of the hair. 

Art Movement : Post - Impressionism.

Reference Artist : Pierre Bonnard.

Theme Chosen : Environmentalism

Visual Treatment : Everyone of us live on the earth with the basic needs, In my artwork, this shows the very basic yet the most important element on the earth to us which is water, fire, moon and sun, and lastly, the nature of the earth - cloud and grass. They may be very simple things which are not really eye-catching and that's the reason why most of us are trying to destroy it. This artworks brings out the beautiful side of each elements and hopefully can influence every human being to save our earth. 

Elements of Design

Lines - the path of a point

Straight lines to create division between the different elements. A lot of wavy, thick, thin, continuous lines to outline the 4 elements.

Shapes - perceivable areas.

There are small shapes to show the elements that do not take out focus from the big picture.

Value - Light.

There are certain shades of light and dark within each element.

Colors - basic colour theory

Basic use of primary colours along with cool and warm tones.

Texture - surface quality

Wall texture.

Eye movement - the visual path our eye will follow

The eye movement focuses on the whole picture, no emphasis on a singular spot.

Principles of Design

Balance - equalizing the visual weight of elements

All four panels of elements seem balance among each other.

Unity/variety

There are lot usage of variation in this work, especially in the use of colours, shapes, and lines. However, there is also a sense of unity as all parts of the work work together to provide a sense of togetherness.

The Process

The Tree

1.  Open the scanned sketches from the file.

2. Cropped the additional part out > Open image > Image size > Change the canvas size to 16x20 inches.

3. Create a layer and start.

4. Used "Magic Wand" to select the areas of the branched. > Used "Brush" (B) tool and paint the area selected.

 5. Used the same step from 3 and 4 for the paint of the background. Green used for the background to create the feel of a forest.

6. Arranged the layer > Select the "water brush" under filter to create the effect. > The artwork will shown as below.

7. Added a "wood" texture by dragging the file to the canvas. > Scroll the image to fit the canvas size and press "enter". Let the texture be at the top of all layers and i used "overlay" for this artwork. 

My Initial Sketch

My Final Design

The Sky is Crying

1. Open image from the file. > Cropped the blank area out > Select the image size to 16 x 20 inches as stated above.

2. Create a layer and start.

3. I used the "Foreground" color under Fill to filled up the face with a light color

4. This is the effect of using fill and i filled it up with a orange brown for the face.

5. Created another layer for the hair and filled it up once again with black color. Used "Magic Wand" to select the are and used "Brush" (B) to fill up the empty area.

6. Colored the background with light orange color to create a feel of sunset.

7. Dragged the sky texture in. > Scroll it to fit the image size > Press "enter" to make it as a layer.

8.  Select the layer and put in on top of all other's layer. Chooses "Overlay" for this artwork. This is how the artwork will be.

My Initial Sketch

The Final Design

Basic Elements On Earth

1. Same as above, open file > cropped the blank part > change the size to 16  x 20 inches.

2. Create layer and start.

3. Select the fire using "magic wand" and used "brush" to paint it. Use slightly dark red to create the outline > Used yellow to color the inner part of the fire.

4. Follow the same step from 2 to 3 except for the color. Used dark blue for the outline of the bubble and water drop , used light blue for the inner part.

5. Redo the same step of 2 to 3 except the color as well. Used blue for the moon and orange for the sun.

6. Redo the steps again except the color changed. Used green for the grass and blue for the clouds.

7. Now, let all the layer appear as the picture shown.

8. Added in the wall texture for this. Drag the texture to the image and shrink it to fit the canvas size. Press "enter" and move the texture layer to the top of all layers.

My Initial Sketch

My Final Design

My 18 Sketches

Theme : Environmentalism Series

Problem statement : Global warming, environmental pollution and so on have become a serious problem in    our society today. Thus, not every one of us really care for these serious issues. That's the reason why i chose this topic. There's a choice for every one of us to choose which environment we prefer to live in through my artworks. 

Purpose of content : Bring more awareness for every one of us about how much a healthy or a polluted environment can affect our lives.

Research Question : What are the differences between a healthy and polluted environment? How these affect our Earth?

 The environment friendly guy

- This picture shows a guy who really cares and wishes  to stay in a healthy environment. The big round circle around him is a protection layer for him to stay away from the polluted environment. -

4 Basic Elements on Earth

- Show the four basic elements on earth which is the water, fire, sun and moon, and lastly the grass and cloud. - 

The 2 faces leaf 

- The leaf is divided into 2 parts in which we can see the clean and fresh environment on the left side and the polluted environment on the right side. 

Light Bulb Coin Box

- This tells us that electricity is very important to us in our daily life and we should reduce using it -  

Turtle Baby

- These shows that how cruel a human can be when they care for only their own benefits. -  

- The concept is to remind us that we should treat the animals as important as our own child. Do not kill them for your own benefits. -

Tree with Face

- This reminds us of how important trees are to us. Save paper, save our environment by imagining the trees having their own life like us, humans. - 

Spray 

- We always use pesticides spray or produce some smell which will actually cause air pollution to happen. - 

Lakeside factory

- This shows that the gas that the factory produces is the main factor for air pollution. - 

Man with Umbrella

- This shows that global warming getting worse day by day. - 

Poison Apple

- If we do not save the earth, the earth will be like this apple tree soon, which is full of poison. - 

Silent night

- The peace and fresh environment we can live in if we start being concerned about our environmental problems. - 

The Pearl

- Treat the earth as important as a pearl to us. - 

Sunny Beach 

- Do you wish to enjoy or spend your holidays in this beautiful beach? If it's a yes, then start to save our environment. - 

Sick

- This shows that the Earth is sick.-

Different mood , different view

- Our mood will change anytime. This is how we see the world when we are in different moods. - 

The Sky is Crying 

- The sky is portrayed as a girl, and she is actually crying due to the serious environmental issues. - 

Healing Hands

-Each and every one of us have a pair of healing hand. Let's show our healing hand to the earth before it's too late.- 

Matches on Fire

- The round side of the matches is actually an earth and this shows that the earth is on fire. (Global warming) - 

Perceptual vs. Conceptual Art

How can we define perceptual art?

  Basically,perceptual art may be interpreted as the engagement of multi-sensory experiential stimuli combined with the multiplicity of interpretive meanings on the part of an observer. Sometimes, the role of observer is obscured as members of the public may unwittingly or unknowingly be participants in the creation of the artwork itself. Perceptual art is also a form of art that can trace its roots to the art history concepts of perceptualism as well as to twentieth century of conceptual art and performing art. That is why perceptual art very often generally called "performance art".

  For perceptual art, it is based on sensory like creating an illusion for the audience.

The above are few examples of perceptual art.

Next,what is conceptual art?

  In conceptual art, the idea or concept is the most importance aspect of the work. When an artist use a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. Said  by Sol LeWitt

  For conceptual art, it is more on though which mean there's always a meaning behind every artwork.