barney

21.02.2012.

TAOP Level 4.

Part Two: Elements of Design.

Project: Points.

For my single point exercise I used a toy train on a track. I tried this without the track but on the carpet it seemed without purpose. The track is a simple loop which I tried to use to give implied direction. To include the track I had to place the train low down and to the right of the picture which gave made a rather empty and sterile picture. I tried the train in different positions within the shot but with no better result. This single point was not sufficient to fill the frame.

For the two point picture I added a small green tree to the top left of shot. This gave a pleasing diagonal line towards the point where the engine would exit. It added both a direction for the eye and an implied direction for the engine.

Contrasting textures seemed a good way of having the subjects of the exercise stand out from the background. I chose plain coloured shiny marbles on a bed of broken limestone. The limestone also gave a surface that would hold the marbles in place. The opening shot shows the empty bed of stones.

No.2

I placed a black marble more or less at random as you see it, off centre to the right and higher than centre.

No.3

Blue placed way out left in attempt to balance the weight of the black.

No.4

Introduce yellow to mess up the line formed between black and blue. Fails to achieve much change in the dynamics.

No.5

Add second yellow. The dynamic line between black and blue remains. Yellow is not strong enough to break the connection.

No.6

Green added high up and on a line with the two yellows. This forms a new weaker line to the picture.

No.7

Added a third yellow. The yellow/green line was now stronger than the black/blue line.

No.8

Moved centre yellow to top left of picture. The dynamic had changed again. The blue, green and single yellow now seem to be pushing out towards the edge.