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Exams: 2002 Studio Art 2-D Design: Concentration -- Brian Hillner
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St. Xavier High School
Cincinnati, Ohio
Student Work
Commentary
Student Work
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Student Commentary
Briefly define the nature of your concentration project.
I chose to use the Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio, for my concentration. Over the summer, I drove downtown taking pictures of various architecture, including buildings, stadiums, and bridges. Scanning through the pictures, I came across a wide shot of the Roebling bridge. I liked the angle of the shot and decided to work with that as my focus. I went back to the bridge, walked across it, and took multiple shots of anything that I thought I could use back in the classroom.
Briefly describe the development of your concentration project and the sources of your ideas. You may refer to specific slides as examples.
Instead of just doing the artwork and not getting any meaning from it, I decided to organize my concentration from an artist's point of view. Therefore, I structured my concentration to go from black-and-white to different color schemes. I also moved from simpler composition and forms to more complex interaction of lines, forms, and texture through digital works (see slides 4*, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9). I chose to challenge myself in terms of color schemes in working with complementary and split complement schemes in slides 11 and 12.
What medium of media did you use?
The first two pieces were done in contrast paper. In those two pieces, I used an exact-o knife to cut away the white, revealing the black. The third piece is an ink wash on crescent board, completed with water, different amounts of ink, and nylon brushes. The next five pieces are digital works with many filters and layers utilizing Photoshop and experimenting with layers: slide 4, plastic wrap; slide 5, dry brush; slide 6, extrude; slide 7, emboss; and slide 8, chrome. All five of the digital pieces were completed in shades of gray, once again falling into place with the flow of color I had set prior to the start of the concentration. I used color on the final four artworks of the concentration. Slide 9 is a digital work, mostly done using curves to change the color and saturation of the photograph. Slide 10 is done with colored pencil, retaining the blues, oranges, and magentas of the previous piece. Slide 11 is also done with colored pencil, again retaining the blues and oranges from the previous piece. I used a complementary color scheme to achieve the desired effect. The final piece, slide 12, is done in acrylic paint, retaining the blues and oranges from the previous piece. I decided to include shades of red in the artwork, creating the triad color scheme. In each of the three rows, each shot gets farther and farther away from the source, therefore further adding to the structure of my concentration.
* Important Note:
The numbers of the slides run from top left to bottom right.
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