60Painters

Heather Graham - Untitled Face.02

We went to the 60Painters exhibit last week and we were told to take one piece we liked and write about it. I choose Heather Graham's 'Untitled Face.02', I choose this piece because I liked how the face was really hard to see within all the white due to fact the features were done in this light grey color. Despite how hard it is to see the girl's face it's obvious it's a female and she's quite pretty as well from what you can see. I love the shading that she did to give this piece depth.

Portfolio Site Design

Yesterday we learned about the 10 principals of web design and today we were to find two portfolio websites; one that we thought was the best and one we thought was the worst. Here's my choices.

Emotions by Mike

I choose this portfolio site as the best because, it's simple. It leaves nothing to be questioned, everything you need to see if properly labeled and easy to see, and within his portfolio he's labelled the artwork with what the piece is, either a site, logo, icon or character design, it makes everything simple and easy to find. Another nice thing about his portfolio is that the designs are opened up in a new window so you don't have to backspace or try and find the tab the design was opened up in.

His use of negative space is really nice, everything is spaced evenly and nicely off-centered so it's visually appealing. The sunburst under the legs gives the dark-ish green a nice gradient  and adds a bit of pop to the page. Also, the fact it's all above the fold makes it easier for the user to use.

Freshet

 I choose this site as the worst because, though they use negative space efficiently and it's visually appealing, it's confusing. There's no navigation, it's all just content and it's confusing and leads you to believe there's more to do but in truth there isn't.

The AGO - Works that Inspire

So a few weeks back we took a trip to the AGO, and we got to see a lot of different types of art. We were told to write about two pieces that had an impact on us, one from the pieces we were shown by Mr. Koczij and the other by the ones shown to us by Ms. Johnson.

Television Works - Iain Baxter

This was from the upper level that Mr. Koczij had shown us, it was part of a collection of TVs that had a scenery painted on the screen while static played on the screen giving this kind of moving effect to the painting. I choose this piece because it was something that had stuck in my mind for most of the day, mainly because of the whole idea of it, I didn't find the actual paintings to be interesting or significant but the idea presented by mixing the painting with the static on the TV had made this picture significant.

Chevreuse II - Jean Paul Riopelle

 From the lower levels I found this painting that looked it had been done with a palette knife. I choose this piece because I liked the coloring of the artwork, how it was kind of sectioned and melded into each other, also I liked the patterning to the piece, the sunrays that were made by using the palette knife.