what is SYMBOLIC, ICONIC and INDEXICAL

Symbolic

Symbols that have not logically represent connection between them and the things they represent. A symbolic sign would be a red octagon shaped sign. When a person sees this, they would automatically know it means stop. The sign has an arbitrary connection to its meaning.

Iconic

Iconic signs most closely resemble the thing they represent. An example of an iconic sign would be the sign outside of public restrooms that indicates them as male or female restrooms. The sign resembles what it stands for.

Indexical

Have a logical, commonsense connection to the thing or idea they represent rather than a direct resemblance to the object. An example of an indexical sign would be smoke. The smoke would indicate that there was a fire. This means that there is a casual link between the sign and its meaning.

Principles Of Designs

Design principles

Proportion

Proportion is a relationship of one part to another or to whole with the size quantity or degree and ratio.

Unity

Unity is a work of art that interrelates balanced and organized to achieve quality of oneness. In the example above the artist has closely grouped together similar objects (birds) and used proximity to create a sense of unity.  Unity is also achieved through the use of colour, having all the flamingos share a similar colour.

Rhythm

This design principle is created when the artist uses one or more of the elements of design repeatedly in order to create a sense of organized movement.  Variety is key to keep rhythm in art exciting and active.  Rhythm also benefits the art work by moving the eye of the audience around your artwork. As in the picture it shows the repeated wave line by the shore.

Emphasis

Emphasis is an accent, stress or importance placed on a part of a piece of artwork or photos. As in the picture above i took the picture of a  grass but only emphasis the flower because only the flower stand out and the rest is blur.

Balance

Symmetrical

Symmetrical balance is achieved when both sides of an artwork carry the same visual weight.  Symmetrical balance gives the impression of stability in a visual sense. As in like the picture of Taj Mahal it is built symmetrically.

Asymmetrical

Asymmetrical balance is achieved when the visual weight of the objects in the art work are not the same. As in the picture above the “pawns” on the right is not same with the “King” on the left. But somehow the picture seems balance because the differentiation of the size.

Radial

Radial balance parts radiates from the center in all direction. As in the picture shows radial Balance because the identical units, or the bars, are arranged around a common point.

Colors

Color

Color relationship:

     

-         Warm – Consist a range of color from red till yellow which also

              included brown and tan. Mostly use to create a warm,

              cheerful and active in a painting, and can be used to

              stimulate or aroused the viewer.

-         Cool – Completed by a range of color from green to violet and

            gray included. Use to create the feeling of calm and relax

            and are tends to be more recede compare to warm color.

Analogous color:

-         Color that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. Some examples are green, yellow green. Often can be found in nature and are pleasing to look at. This combination gives bright effect within the area and is able to coup with several moods. Always make sure there is one hue as the main color when applying analogous color.

 Mark Nestmite

This painting is done by an analogous scheme based on the color blue. The story behind this painting is inspired during a hiking with the painter’s own family at Lake Mineral Wells. The color blue was use because the painter wishes to capture the cool breeze and cold feeling after a long day. This also show the mood of the painter when he was doing his painting.

Complementary color:

-         Colors that are opposite to each other on the color wheel, such as blue and orange. It is use to create a more energetic feeling. The high contrast creates a vibrant view especially during full saturation.

The lake at sunset, Connie Mulloy

This painting is complete with 3 color which is the thalo blue, cadmium yellow and cadmium orange. This painting has not much of a meaning behind it but the usages of complementary color are quite obvious and are easy to see. The painter also use some white color just to make the yellow and orange more clear and fresh from each other.

Split-complementary color:

-         Have a main color and two color each side of the opposite color on the color wheel. These color are one hue and two space from its opposite. Mostly uses in presentation using a computer in order tom maintain high contrast and avoid fatigue.

                                                                                                                                                                                          Sailboat, Donald A. Jusko

This painting was done in a high perspective with the color purple and green to make the distant look and the foreground was color by magenta and green. The cloud edge of the sky was being smeared by the painter to determine the location of the sun, which is in the left.

Color intensity:

-   Known as the strength or the purity of a color in same color type. Also include as a low, middle and high key value of a color.

Rainbow bright, Kate

A painting that is completed using color straight out of the color tube without adding any mixture. The colors are mostly in high intensity or high key value and thus create an abstract type of painting. 

A Wolf Kahn painting!

The Morris is currently prepping for Wolf Kahn Pastels, an exhibition of more than twenty pastels by Wolf Kahn, which will open September 11 in the museum's Coggins Gallery. 

One of America’s premier landscape painters and a master of the difficult medium of pastel, Wolf Kahn is undeniably the greatest colorist of our time. Color is his signature, and he has this to say of his work.

In the painting, Wolf Kahn differentiates the colors accordingly. He uses warm colors to paint the foreground and cool colors to paint the background. The color he uses to paint the foreground (the barnyard) is orange-yellow for the roof, white for the left sided wall where else the front wall is a mixed color.

Well for the background, Wolf Kahn uses cool colors to paint the background so that the viewer’s eyes will recede on the background and will have more attention on the foreground. He uses a green-blue for his background. In the painting also has a middle ground which is painted with dull colors.

Moreover the colors he uses are directly opposite from each of them on the color wheel. Since the colors are directly opposite from each other it creates an extreme contrast on the painting which draw more attention on the foreground. contrast is to set in opposition in order to show or emphasize differences and that's exactly what Wolf Kahn implied.

Beides that, Wolf Kahn also uses the "chiaroscuro" technique to shape form applying gradually light to dark values and also multiplying colors on. As we can see in the painting. the left foreground (the barnyard) walls are differentiated using chiaroscuro technique. As on the left sided wall it is painted white where else the front wall is white with other colors multiplied on it.

my best friend

 It's been a year and half since he came to this world. i never expect even in my wildest dream that i'll meet a cutie pie like him. By the way, his name is Nicholas and i call him "BABYBEAR". Ever since he came in my family a lot of things changes. Things at home become merrier and I've got myself a good friend. Believe it or not he listens to me whenever i talk to him and in reply he growls back. 

He's a sleepy head too. He sleeps beside me on my KING SIZED bed. If the time is up he'll go and sleep on my bed (he doesn't stink like other dogs >_< ). 

yes i drew it. He's really a precious one. Since I'm too free i decided to draw.

P/S: its for his birthday (LOL)