Am I seeing spots...no those are dots!

In this project we learned about the Gestalt principles of continuance, similarity, and proximity. Using different size dots we showed each of the different concepts.
      What I believed to be a very quick assignment turned into a long one when I sat down to do my thumbnails.  Thanks to my table mates and a little research I figured it out. First I drew 10 thumbnails of each principle. I put a lot of thought into the layout and overall feel of each thumbnail.

I was out sick for a couple of classes so I self critiqued them and the decided which ones were the best for each concept. I picked the best 5 of each and put them on 6x6 white squares using sharpie.
Then I took the best of the 5 and put the white square on a 10x10 black backing. The end result was different than what I had anticipated. I was a little frustrated as I noticed the glue I had chosen to use had left my projects wrinkled.

Day 1

Auditory presentation
     I am a music major as well as art and it this activity was something that I related to well, coming from an extremely strong background in music. My thoughts about texture in music is something different than what my group came up with but in the end it was a lot better product with everyone's ideas being involved.

Newspaper
     I had fun playing with the newspaper, something I don't think I've ever done. I was a great senior citzen college student! Complete with a cane, backpack, glasses, book, cap, even pens/pencils all created from newspaper.

It was also fun to see everyone elses nightmares or fantasies.

Cardboard Spheres

      I enjoyed working with cardboard to create the spheres. It is fun for me to explore new ways to use a material. It took some time to learn how to work with it, but in the end I believe that we became friends.

Sphere #1
      Now turning a flat material into a spherical structure is a definite challenge. I started out by viewing the sphere as if it had planes. I turned those planes into hexagonal shapes, then transferred them into cardboard. I chose hexagons because it gave me a circular surface with edges.
      I came to find that do to imprecise cutting my hexagons had to turn into other shapes in certain locations in order to make it all fit together. The hot glue also became a filler in some cases. I also discovered that as the hexagons went from flat side by side into being connected at various angles to each other that slight modifications had to be made to get a good fit.

Sphere #2
    When I focused on the internal structure of a sphere, I envisioned several flat circles stacked on top of one another to create one side. Each circle getting only slightly smaller than the one underneath it. This process took a lot of precise cutting not only to get the diameter just right but also to match both sides. Unfortunately my cutting wasn't precise enough and the end result didn't look like what I had hoped.

Sphere #3
     I came up with a slot system to create a sphere with no glue.

This
plan
didn't        
work
so
I
modified
my
design
and
I
got
my
Finished Piece!