Fire Mask

This is the finished product of my mask

The "Fuego" Mask (The Mask of Fire)

This mask represents the Maddarian's ceremony for warding off "magia negra" (dark magic). The reason they wear this mask is because supposedly, the magia negra was repelled by fire. So, they created a mask to represent fire to ward off any spiritual magic that might cause harm. The jewels were an additional feature added to enhance the light reflecting off of them from the fire. This caused the ceremony to be truly luminous, and because of this they then held the traditional ceremony at night. To try and replicate the flicker of the flame they had to use a brush stroke and glittering paint. The crown on the mask was meant to demostrate that the Maddarians had more power or control over the magia negra.  They enhanced the eyebrows because they wanted to look in a way fierce before they battled with the dark magic. 

How Artists Use Proportion & Distortion

1. How do exaggeration and distortion affect proportion?
Well, you see, exaggeration and distortion affect proportion because it enhances a section of an object.

2. What distorting effects can an artist use?
Artists can use enlarging, lengthening, blending, twisting, and deforming to distort an object.

3.  Why do artists use distortion?
Artists use distortion and exaggeration to influence their ideas and feelings. 

4. How can artists create monumental qualities without using large scales?
They can create it through exaggerated proportions and spacing rather than large scales.

Today we applied what we knew from value and made them into designs on a piece of paper. We used frottage, erasure and tracing to make these wonderful designs 'come to life'.

Mirrored Image Name Project

This is my "mirrored  image name project" . To create this piece we had to write our name in a cursive font and then replicate it on the other side as if a mirror was there. We then had to add value effects and disguise our name.  

Value and How it Enhances Drawing

Value isn't just  the quality of colour in a picture, it simply defines lines by emphasizing the lightness and darkness of them. It is crucial when drawing because it shows depth and almost gives it a 3D effect on a flat piece of paper. 

The Race to Space

Space is defined by positive and negative spacing.  Look at this picture to the left. The elephant would represent the positive space and the backdrop would represent the negative. 

In class, we learned about spacing and what spacing is. Three dimensional objects can best describe what the difference between positive and negative spacing is but, two dimensional works as well  All you have to see is the focusing point in the object and what the background would be.