LGrella's Blog Post 3: Asymmetrical Balance

Part 1-Draft

Part 2-Final

LGrella's Blog Entry 2: Line Spice

Vertical and Horizontal Lines

This piece was one of my favorites to work on. When Prof. Buening showed us a few examples in class the idea for it popped into my head and I could not wait to get the ball rolling. The mood that this one shows to me is a feeling of being pent up. The thin lines with the bend represent a road and the thick lines represent a road block. It reflects life in a way, there are times were you feel pent up and you need to get out and move but you can't. 

"Pent Up or Blocked"

Diagonal Lines

This one was my favorite out of the collection. In this piece represents my anxiety. the thin straight lines show my outer self. Very put together. They go in two different directions because they represent the choices I have to make daily. Now the really thick line that cuts the page in half represents my skin. So that leaves the rest showing my inner self. The jagged lines show my anxiety and give the image of trying to break out of my own skin. 

"Anxiety"

Curvy Lines

This piece I would say was my weakest. I had no ideas flowing through me. I guess in a way it shows here. The different lines show the state of confusion I was in. I just didn't know what to do. The piece is divided into three sections; nothing touches, or meshes in any way. I was just trying to fill up space.

"Confusion"

Putting Everything Together

This piece was fun to put together, I really enjoyed using color. This piece for me represents excitement. It reminds me of confetti. The square like lines in the bottom corner represent something hard giving way to excitement and fun!

"Excitement"

Remake

Here is the remake of the curvy line assignment. I pictured leaves in my head and wanted to show that on paper. I feel like everything flows in this piece. Unlike the other piece, everything connects in a way.

LGrella's Blog Entry 1-Contour and Broken Line Drawings

Contour Line Key

       The drawing below is a contour line drawing of my house key. I worked

a lot with line variation to emphasize the grooves in the key as well as the 

shadow the grooves created. When I first, started working on it, I did not look

at the continuity. It was just one long, and curvy line. Adding the depth made the

key look that much more realistic. When looking at the continuity of the piece, the lines, 

to me anyway flow very nicely and follow the shape of the key.  Unfortunately I did not 

follow all of the directions and the drawing it self has little motion behind it.

Broken Line Key

This drawing is also of my house key but I used broken lines to depict it.

There were two ways I could have drawn the key out. In my first draft, I just made

an outline of the key using short lines and then I filled in just the dark spaces and grooves in the key. 

I was not happy with it so I decide to draw the whole key out and then make the lines close together as well as darker to make the grooves stand out and give the key depth. I followed directions in this piece and put the key on and angle to look like I dropped it and it is falling through space and time (something I do frequently). The proximity of the lines in this piece really accentuates the different sections of the key. they are spaced further a part to indicate the flat surfaces and darker and closer together to indicate the grooves in the key.