I arrived early so i grabbed a national geographic magazine and saw this amazing AMAZING picture.
Painted elephants in India. check the other pictures here.
Look how beautiful this animal is!!!!!
This is the poster I made for today's event.
Check out Molly Bang's website here.
After Winnie's introduction on Molly Bang's ideas on COMPOSING PICTURES,
participants started their SCARY artwork.
Basically, you'll have to choose a background color first.
(the colors are limited: dark blue, black, yellow, and red)
And then use ONLY scissors to cut out the shapes.
Since the topic is "scary," you need an ATTACKER.
There are limited options for the participants to choose from: bird, fish, or snake.
And you also need a VICTIM, which you can choose whatever you want.
After you cut out the shapes, arrange them on your background paper, you can stick them with the glue.
Do people always do this?
Sign up for the event online but never show up on that day.
The whole workshop is based on this book.
1.
Smooth, flat, horizontal shapes give us a sense of stability and calm.
We associate horizontal shapes with the
surface of the earth or the horizon line – with the floor, the prairie, a calm
sea. We humans are most stable when we are horizontal, because we can't fall
down.
2. Vertical shapes are more exciting and more
active. Vertical shapes rebel against the earth's gravity. They imply energy
and a reaching toward heights or the heavens.
Think of the things that grow or are built
vertically: trees and plants grow up toward the sun; churches and skyscrapers
reach toward the heavens as high as they can go. These structures require a
great deal of energy to build, to become vertical. They will release a great
deal of energy if they fall.
3. Diagonal shapes are dynamic because they
imply motion or tension.
Objects in nature that are on a diagonal are
either in movement or in tension.
4. The upper half of a picture is a place of
freedom, happiness, and triumph; objects in the top half feel more spiritual.
When we are high up, we are in a stronger
tactical position: we can see our enemies and throw things down on them. Down
low, we can't see very far; things might fall on us. The bottom half of a
picture feels more threatened, heavier, sadder or constrained; objects placed
in the bottom half also feel more grounded.
5. The center of the page is the most
effective “center of attention.” It is the point of greatest interest.
An abstract picture may be read as a jewel
radiating light (or a heroine radiating triumph) or as a figure surrounded on
all sides by attackers. Our emotional response depends on the context, but the
fact remains that it is difficult to take our eyes away from the center and
move them around the page.
6. White or light backgrounds feel safer to us
than dark because we can see well during the day and only poorly at night.
As a result of our inability to see in the
dark, black often symbolizes the unknown, and all our fears associated with the
unknown, while white signifies brightness and hope.
7. We feel more scared looking at pointed
shapes; we feel more secure and comforted looking at rounded shapes or curves.
Our skin is thin. Pointed objects can easily
pierce through to our innards and kill us. Curved shapes embrace us and protect
us.
8. The larger an object is in a picture, the
stronger it feels.
We generally feel more secure when we are big
than when we are little, because we're more capable of physically overpowering
an enemy. One of the easiest ways to make a protagonist – or a threat – appear
strong is to make it VERY large.
9. We associate the same or similar colors
much more than we associate the same or similar shapes.
Our association of objects by color is
immediate and very strong. The association can be “positive,” as with team
players who all wear the same color uniform, or “negative,” as with Little Red
Riding Hood and the wolf’s eye and tongue.
10. We notice contrasts, or put another way,
contrast enables us to see.
The contrast can be between colors, shapes,
sizes, placement, or combinations of these, but it is the contrast that enables
us to see both patterns and elements. Pictures – and human perceptions – are
based on contrast.
