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Exams: 2003 Studio Art 2-D Design: Concentration - Stephanie Rozman
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Chagrin Falls High School
Chagrin Falls, Ohio
Student Work
Commentary
Student Work
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Student Commentary
Briefly define the nature of your concentration project.
In my concentration, I compress as much three-dimensional space as possible into the two- dimensional picture plane working from photographs, taken by me, of scenes that I view daily. I capture specific moments in my pieces that could be arranged to form an overlook of my everyday life, as they depict the people with whom I interact daily in the environments where I usually see them, engaged in their usual activities, such as my classmates in our permanent seating arrangement in French class, my friend in the driver's seat of her car, or myself fixing my hair in the mirror each morning. This compilation of moments from my daily routine focuses on the compression of space, using shape rather than value to illustrate form.
Briefly describe the development of your concentration project and the sources of your ideas. You may refer to specific slides as examples.
My first pieces began as experiments in abstraction, a departure from the realism I prefer. I worked to translate the clothing folds, skin tones, and chair backs in my photographs onto paper as shapes instead of values, expanding upon my approach to realistic drawing as a juxtaposition of shaded areas with pencil. I began my concentration intending to abandon dull, neutral tones in favor of bright colors, completing slides 1 through 4 in this manner, but as my work developed, I decided to reintroduce color where I saw it necessary, such as in hair and flesh tones. Ultimately, my pieces looked more and more true to life as I progressed, phasing out bold color unless it existed in the photograph. I also reintroduced value to my work, using lighter and darker values of a hue instead of shape alone to depict wrinkles and shadow.
What medium or media did you use?
I used marker and pencil in slide one, creating the outline of a desired shape and filling it in. Immediately afterward, and for the duration of my concentration, I created the shapes using only cut paper and simply glued them to the mat board after placing them.
* Important Note:
The numbers of the slides run from top left to bottom right.
- 12 x 18, marker
- 18.5 x 21.5, cut paper
- 18 x 24, cut paper
- 18 x 17.25, cut paper
- 16.25 x 24, cut paper
- 13.5 x 19, cut paper
- 21.5 x 13 3/8, cut paper
- 8.25 x 9 1/8, cut paper
- 15.75 x 10.25, cut paper
- 16 x 22.25, cut paper
- 13.5 x 11.25, cut paper
- 14.25 x 17.5, cut paper
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