2-D Design

Icons. Indexes. Symbols.

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Greyscale Tumbling Blocks

Gauche on Bristol Paper

2016

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Grey Scale

Gouache on Bristol Paper 

2016

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A Transformation

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The Makings of A Transformation

Creating a gif from two opposing emotions

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6 Emotions in Primary Form

Sadness

Happiness

Disgust

Fear

Anger

Surprise

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Figure/Ground Relationships 

Stable, Reversible, Abstract.

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Working on tile sets for some cool figure-ground relationships.

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Deconstruction and Reconstruction of an Ad.

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Princess Hyacinth

The image Princess hyacinth is comprise of many organic and geometric planes, along with a few irregular ones. Line is employed to great effect here, being used as both a frame reference and symbol in signature.

The image has much overlapping but the figure-ground relationship is not very complicated in spite of this.

The color of the various planes as they interact and overlap allows for a much better understanding of the layers and also the positive and negative forms. Although various forms overlap, they can be taken as a whole and provide an interesting union in the larger sense of the image.

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Celestial Rose

Gustav Dore’s Celestial Rose is filled with both organic and irregular forms. The organic forms are present from the figure area and into the ground as well. The most prominent irregular shape is the focal point of the image which seems to be both the figure and ground. The ways in which form overlap and intersect are too numerous to count in the coalescing of angels into a larger, irregular form, a union itself.

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Beheading of Holofernes

This image is totally representational in nature and made up of many irregular and organic forms that interact with each other in various ways. There is overlapping of planes, subtraction, touching and union showed throughout the image. Positive and negative forms are used with the figure ground element which further helps portray the “characters” being in front of the other planes present. The use of line as a detail element is employed within the forms of the body, giving them a union swell as a sense of depth, which is interesting. Color also unifies the sense of volume by tying the negative forms color with changing hues in the foreground figures.

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Odd Bouquet Analysis

In the Ad by United Colors of Benneton the visual elements of point, line, plane, and the illusion of volume all combine to create form. The image itself employs Organic planes which are touching each other in a figure-ground relationship with the negative space made up of the color white. The Symbols comprising the words “White”, “Black”, and “Yellow” each overlap the heart shaped organic forms along with a relationally small, green logo on the right side.

The plane that is the symbols or words, along with the logo, are rectilinear in nature. The shadows of the hearts, are organic in nature as well.

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Guernica

The painting Guernica employs many different variations in elements of design. As far as visual elements go, nearly every plane is visible as form.  Surveying the image there are; Geometric, Organic, Rectilinear, Irregular, and Hand-drawn planes as form pictured above. There are also hand drawn lines apparent and many of these elements overlap, penetrate, and subtract each other in various ways. The black and white nature of the piece uses the positive and negative relationship to great effect, throwing the brain into chaos as it tries to discern what is and what isn’t occupied space.