Since reading this weeks learning unit for Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 I have been really noticing how all the keywords and concepts relate to everyday life. I was driving up to Auburn and you know once you are past Sierra College Boulevard it starts to go uphill, well I thought this was a great example of linear perspective. (I did try to take a picture with my camera phone...BUT bad bad idea when driving, so I found one online.) I mean everyday we are driving on the road whether it be day or night. I thought that it clearly showed parrallel lines that eventually do converge at a point on the horizon line. And when you look at the cars you see that some of them do overlap giving you the perception of depth, and as the cars are farther back in the picutre they recede in size. Or when you are in downtown Sacramento and you are standing on the sidewalk next to one of the "sky-scrapers", have you ever noticed the same idea with the windows??? All parrallel lines that converge at one point, they recede in size as they are farther from your sight, and they dont neccessarily overlap but from your own knowledge you can percept a certain amount on depth!!
I think that a contour line can be found when you look at just about anything. Its just a matter of how you percieve it. Contour lines give any object shape and volume. When I look at the door in my room I can see the contour lines that give it the shape and volume. I think that with all these new key terms swarming around in my head that the world and my surroundings are becoming more visually interesting, I can be making dinner now and the idea of how the lines and shapes of the pots and pans or the boxes of the items I am using relate to the art world. And when I look into my closet in the morning how I could sit back and see how the contour lines made by my clothing effect my perception of my closet and the clothes found within it. Pretty freaky if I can say so myself, I just never really thought about anything that way. And I think that when becoming an artist and having to use contour lines to for artwork is something you would think to be hard but as it turns out it isn't; just becomes a matter of knowing how to create the best visual effect.
Sorry sideways but it wont let me change it...SNIFFLE.
5 comments:
I enjoyed reading your post. I do find myself just drawling lines and even practice drawing from one of the "How To Draw" book. If you noticed that these books are nothing but shapes that overlapp each other to give the 2-D picure debth.
I love the photo of the city from a worm's eye view. The windows are a great example of how things in the distance get smaller and smaller. In my drawing class we started out using contour lines to draw toys, our hands, etc. and it was hard (for me at least). We did "blind" contour drawings where we were suppose to look only at the object we were drawing and not at the paper. I was hard not to peek, but it did give me a better understanding on how to look at the unique outline of an object.
I emjoy reading your blog. It's full of life and feelins. I too like your photo of the building. I makes me automatically think of the birds eye view. If you were to take a picture from the sky of this same building, it would most likely appear like a bunch of squares on the ground, just shapes. But once you get to the ground the same building with all of its lines take on mass, and comes alive in all different ways depending on the view. My mind is also going crazy with all the new information from these last two chapters. I have seen more in the last week than I think I ever have before. Having the knowledge of lines and space has given me a more informed view of what I see.
I think we're all a bit haunted by what we studied last week. You described it quite well and had some really good examples. If you're using a PC you can rotate your images using Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. If your on a Mac you can spin 'em in Iphoto. There's a lot of cheap or free alternatives to Photoshop. But your points are valid whether your pictures are horizontal or vertical.
I really love reading your post! You always have great examples and pictures that it makes everything so interesting. I really enjoyed your picture and explanation about the sky scrappers. You seen to totally be in to art and it is great!
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