Tessalations

For Design Art class 2010, my class did tessallations. Firstly, we folded a small piece of square paper twice and drew on 1 of the 4 boxes and pattern, using a Sharpie. Then over a lightbox we traced the opposite of the pattern across from it on another box. We kept drawing using the lightbox to see through the paper until it filled up the whole piece of paper and we had a whole pattern. The pattern had to tessallate, meaning both halves of the paper are mirror opposites of each other. Next, I took 7 pieces of the same size square of paper and again, using the lightbox to trace, I copied the tessalation over and over on the papers. When I finished tracing, I picked 2 colors (purple and pink) and colored parts of the tessallation that I wanted to have color. Then i did the same to all of the other copies. The original paper I used as a model. Finally, I came up with a shape I wanted to stick the papers together as, and I framed my work of art on a big purple piece of paper, to match the color of my tessallation.


I felt relaxed while working with this project, because my friends and I were just sitting at the lightboxes and we were talking while working and it was fun. Problems I ran into along the way was when I copied the tessalations over and over, the lines weren't exact and when I put the copies together and I had to work my way around the mistakes. Looking out for mistakes also increased my powers of observation. The elements of art were Lines and Color, which is the unit we're doing right now. I'm really proud of what I've created, it all worked out in the end. Overall, I would give it about 4 out of 5 in terms of me liking it.

The things I learnt doing this project were how to draw a complicated pattern over and over. I always thought that artists had to draw it all by hand. Now I understand the power of the light box, and what an important tool it is for designing. I also learnt how to look closely at where the pattern joins with another piece of paper, I had to be careful because if I didn't look carefully, then the pattern wouldn't be exact and it wouldn't be a good tessellation.

We got inspired to do this project by a brilliant artist named M.C. Escher, who was incredibly lucky to be gifted in both math and art. He incorporated math into his work because his tessellations were always exact and the perspective he used to draw the scenes are very hard to do. He would measure everything, then draw.

Here's a picture of one of his works of art.

It's very confusing to look at, you can't even tell if the perspective is from above or from the side.

Some of the skills I learnt while doing this project might come in handy one day, if I ever decide to become an artist.

The Story of Blaskar-PART 2

This is a cool picture of me....Blaskar is my name.

They told us the war was gonna end by Christmas 2088.

But I'm starting to doubt that. My name is Blaskar. I'm a monster that fights for the humans. The war against the aliens. This was has been going on since June 2084. 4 years is a long time.

They came on a hot summer's day. I saw them, I was hiding in an alley in New York. I had to hide. I was a monster. The humans would either kill me or put me in a zoo if they discovered me. I would probably be jeered at at and called a freak, get tied up and laughed at. Not cool. So, that's why I HAVE TO hide.

Moving on. So as I was saying they came on a hot summer's day. They came by the thousands. in these huge steel looking spaceships, with lights blinking at the windows.

I remember it started raining when they came. The lightning was deafining. Everyone started screaming when they saw the spaceships. Pandemonium. Chaos. All the armies in the world were alerted and the aliens opened fire with these weird laser guns that killed you instantly. The aleins were greenish with 5 eyes and 3 feet that were colered red.

A few days after the 1st day the aliens came, I offered my assistance to the American gonvernment. They didn't trust me at first but after awhile they employed me to spy on the aliens. I've been working for them ever since.

My name is Blaskar and this is my story. You may not believe me but this is the truth.

Alphabet

This was one of my first works of art in this Design Art class. We haad to take random letters from the alphabet and make some of them big and the letters behind it small, to give it a sort of distant effect.

P.S.

This is our second-to-the-last Design Art class because the start of the 2nd quarter is I think today. :(

The Story of Blaskar

I justfinished my magical creature project for Design Art class like I told you in my last post. Our teacher had told us to make artwork like in that artwork in the website I told you about in my last post. It's sort of like the characters in that PC game World of Warcraft. Ok, so my teacher said to tell an imaginary story about my monster Blaskar.

December 10, 2088

They told us the war was gonna end by Christmas 2088. But I'm starting to
doubt that. My name is Blaskar. I'm a monster that fights for the humans. The war against the aliens. This was has been going on since June 2084. They came on a hot summer's day. I saw them, I was hiding in an allay in New York. I had to hide. I was a monster. The humans would either kill me or put me in a zoo if the y discovered me.

More next time guys, gotta go!!!! :))

Updates

I just finished making this "magical creature" for Design Art class. Our teacher showed us a website by a Turkish-American designer. You can check out his SUPER AWESOME ARTWORK at this site: www.emrahelmasli.com just type it cos this is not a link.

Negative

This is one of our projects. It is also Positive&Negative. I made it by getting 2 colors that are contrast colors, meaning they are opposite colors. Green and Red, the Christmas colors, are contrast colors. Ms. Bammi, our Design Art teacher told us that it would be nice to make like a brand or sport logo. I chose to do soccer. That semi-circle at the top middle of the page is like part of the center kick off. The backward L on the bottom right hand corner is the corner, the one where they do corner kicks. The bottom rectangle is the goal. And those 3 shapes on the left side is like the hexagons on a soccer ball. The long line in the middle is like the sidelines, the bench where the reserve players sit.

So one one side the shapes are red but the other half of the shape is green. I cut out the shapes on both sides then stuck a red piece of paper underneath the green side, so that the cut out green shapes are red underneath.The cut out red is green underneath because the red paper is stuck on top of a larger green paper.


I should also say that we only have a few more classes for Design Art. We get new exploratory classes on Oct. 16.

Positive&Negative

This is my most recent finished work. I made it by getting a piece of black paper, drawing really crazy and insane shapes. i cut them out with a knife. For the positive and negative part we had to glue the cut out shape so that it mirrors the shape it was cut out from. Finally, as a special touch ment to cunfuse the person looking at the artwork, I made more ZANY shapes around the black and white positive and the negative shapes. Then i colored them in red with marker.