Scale art

Principles of design: Scale This represents scale because this image shows how big whales are compared to a tiny person kayaking.

The famous "tug of war" between the two. They are called-upon, when it comes to making difficult decision, involving emotions. German Artist Evelyn Maria Lorenz names her work "a heART project". We have all been in that situation when a part of us tells us to do one thing and another, the opposite. In this scenario, the heart represents a more compassionate approach, whilst the brain usually plays a more stern and analytical part. It fascinates me how we have the need to give differing…

Clever juxtapositions by photographer Stephen McMennamy.

The idea was to some up with a creative way of creating a scale with 11 values from black to white and everything in between. The human eye can only see 44 different values in between black and white. Apparently the most a person has ever created without using a computer is 12. Here are 11.

VALUE SCALES ADVANCED 2-D ART graphite on bristol board with collage paper frame Senior Samantha Tun is the lone ranger in my Advanced 2-D class, that's 3rd year drawing, painting and design. For her 1st assignment she had 3 days to create a 15 step Value Scale (not an easy task). Using a cityscape is a great place to line up values next to each other, but it was her collage frame that caught my eye. I really like how she combined the old Hymnal paper with the tye-dye pieces. Note also how…

VALUE SCALES 7TH GRADE ART WHEEL - 2ND QUARTER - 2016-2017 graphite on paper & colored pencil accents Let me introduce my 2nd Quarter 7th graders. They like my first group had a couple of real knuckleheads but overall, another talented bunch. Let me show a couple off. Sabrina Liu starts us off with this adorable dragon. And she's created values everywhere and has picked up a bit of extra credit for that. Next is Amy Wang who obviously is coming in with some self-taught drawing skills. Wow…

These value scales were done by my 2nd year 2-D kids as a warm-up exercise at the beginning of the school year. Yeah, I know I'm very late in posting them. See if you can find the scale in this first piece by junior Belinda Wu. This is her first year with me and she is coming to me with exceptional skills. She has cleverly hidden the scale in her table tops. Her attention to detail and her shading abilities are remarkable. This next piece by senior Halah Elsahhar is lovely. Her craftsmanship…