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Art Studio is a fun and exciting class where you can create different art projects, collaborate with each other, and get to know people. Currently, we are working on an Artist Discovery project. The Artist Discovery project helps us understand and learn about different artists and the different principles of designs.
The principles of design we are learning about are:
Balance – the equal distribution of visual weight within a composition, creating a sense of stability and harmony for the viewer. This visual weight can be influenced by elements such as color, size, texture, and value.
Movement – a principle that creates a sense of action or motion within a still artwork by guiding the viewer’s eye through composition.
Emphasis – the technique of using visual elements to draw attention to a particular area or object within a composition, creating a focal point that becomes the center of interest.
Proportion – the principle of art that refers to the relationship between the sizes, shapes, and placement of different elements within an artwork or design, including the parts of one object to other parts and to the whole composition.
Composition – the arrangement of visual elements, like line, shape, color, and space, in a work of art to create a unified whole that conveys meaning and guides the viewer’s eye.
Contrast – the principle of using opposite elements such as light and dark colors, large and small shapes, or smooth and rough textures to create visual interest, emphasize differences, and guide the viewer’s eye.
Closure – The viewer’s mind completing an image when only part is shown.
Unity/Harmony – the principle that makes different elements feel like they belong together, creating a sense of “oneness” or a complete, cohesive whole
Variety – introducing diversity through contrasting elements like color, shape, texture, or size to create visual interest and prevent designs from becoming dull.
Perspective – creates the illusion of depth and three-dimensionality on a two-dimensional surface. It achieves this by manipulating the way objects appear to shrink in size, converge towards a vanishing point as they recede into the distance.
Essentially, perspective allows artists to represent space and depth realistically in their artwork.
While we researched, we learned how to quickly spot these principles.
We also research and learn about different artists that use these principles of designs in their artwork.
Everyone picks out a favorite piece of artwork that they believe best demonstrates the principle of design but the artwork is also by the specific artist. After choosing our favorite piece of artwork, we research it, studying its history and era, mediums, and dimensions in inches; more interestingly, we explore what the artwork was a response to, and what primary elements of art were used to achieve the principle of its design.
Already students have researched Crystal Wagner, Darel Carey, Firelei Baez, Ingo Swann, J.J. Ellis, Katharine Morling, Morgan Sorensen, Natasha Kekanovic, Oscar Oiwa, Bisa Butler, Lucy Sparrow, and Michael Reeder, among other artists.
In Art Studio class we have learned so much about principles of designs and artists based off of the principles of designs. Some of our projects this upcoming year will involve these principles of designs.