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PICTURE THISHOW PICTURESWORK
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Do I feel anything for this shape?
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How can I make her feel less overwhelming and more huggable?
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How can I keep her large but give Little Red Riding Hoodprominence in the picture?
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What do I feel about the mother now?
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It has shown some of the ways that shapes and colors affect us emotionally.
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I wanted to stay as simple as possible.
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But these are too close to the shapes ofLittle Red Riding Hood and her mother.
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This sense ofdepth is accomplished simply by arranging the pieces so that thethinner they are, the higher up on the page their bases are placed.
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What can I do to Little Red Riding HoodONLY to thetriangleto make the picture feel scarier?
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Why does it feel scarier when she is proportionally smaller?
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I need to make room for the wolf
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But the picture didnt feel as scary as before. Why not?How can I make the trees feel more threatening?
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Diagonal lines give a feeling of movement or tension to the picture.
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Why do these triangles look so scary?
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I feel very differently when the wolf is made much smaller,
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or the points are changed to curves,
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or the wolf is made from a paler color.
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What are the features of wolves that make them so frightening to us?
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What else does the wolf need in order to look more wolfish?
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But even though wolves eyes are often pale blue, it didnt look right.
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What happens if the eye is made exactly the same color
and shape as Little Red Riding Hood?
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The picture feels very different, and yet all that has
changed is the shape of the eye.
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What feature could I add to the wolf to make it yet more frightening?
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When two or more objects in a picture have the same color,
we associate them with each other.
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Why does the picture feel more threatening?
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What has happened now that the teeth are white?
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THE PRINCIPLESMake note of the principles printed in red.
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1. Smooth, flat horizontal shapes give us a sense of stability and calm.
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2. Vertical shapes are more exciting and more active.
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If a horizontal bar is placed across the top of a row of verticals,
stability reigns again.
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3. Diagonal shapes are dynamic because they imply motion or tension.
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Diagonals in pictures often tie a vertical and horizontal together
as a much more stable unit.
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These diagonal buttresses are under great tension.
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Mountains, slides, waves:
All of these are diagonals in movement or in tension.
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A triangle placed on a flat base gives a feeling of stability.
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The same triangle placed on a diagonal gives a sense of movement.
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What increases the sense of movement even more in this picture?
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4a. The upper half of a picture is a place of freedom, happiness, and triumph;
objects placed in the top half often feel more spiritual.
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4b. The bottom half of a picture feels more threatened, heavier, sadder, or
constrained; objects in the bottom half also feel more grounded.
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The addition of each new element can modify the effect of the other elements
or even change them completely.
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The principles described so far result from gravity's effect upon us and the
world and the pictures we look at.
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The next principles have to do with the picture as a world of its own.
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5. The center of the page is the most effective center of attention.
It is the point of greatest attraction.
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What happens when the focus of attention is shifted
away from the center of the page?
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The edges and corners of the picture are
the edges and corners of the picture-world.
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With an object or a hole centered in the middle of the page,
it is difficult to move away from the center.
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6. White or light backgrounds feel safer to us than dark backgrounds because
we can see well during the day and only poorly at night.
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We associate red with blood and fire.
What things in nature are either black or white?
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7. We feel more scared looking at pointed shapes;
we feel more secure or comforted looking at rounded shapes or curves.
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Curved shapes embrace us and protect us.
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8. The larger an object is in a picture, the stronger it feels.
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The same figure appears much more vulnerable if it is made very small.
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The teacher asks you to separate all of these shapes into
two groups of similar elements. How do you divide them?
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9. We associate the same or similar colors much more strongly
than we associate the same or similar shapes.
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How do these two sorts of patterns make us feel?
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10. We notice contrasts, or, put another way, contrast enables us to see.
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The picture contains a space all its own.
We exist outside the picture until
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our eyes fix on and capture an object inside it like a prey
but the prey in turn draws us to itself inside the picture space.
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Space isolates a figure, makes that figure alone, free, and vulnerable.
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The movement of the picture is determined as much by the
spaces between the shapes as by the shapes themselves.
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The overlapping object pierces or violates the space of the other,
but this also joins them together into a single unit.
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A sense of depth in space is created by placing the bases of progressively
smaller/thinner/lighter objects gradually higher on the page.
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Space implies time.
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Wide space can create tension between the divided objects...
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but so can a sliver of space.
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The picture is extremely simple, and extremely effective.
Open Notes Quiz
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Open-Notes Quiz1. Smooth, flat, horizontal shapes give us a sense of _________ and _________.
2. Vertical shapes are more _________ and more _________.
3. Diagonal shapes are _________ because they imply _________ or _________.
4. The upper half of a picture is a place of _________, _________, and _________;
objects placed in the top half often feel more _________.
The bottom half of a picture feels more _________, _________, _________, or
_________; objects in the bottom half also feel more _________.
5. The center of the page is the most effective _________. It is the point of greatest_________.
The edges and corners of the _________ are the edges and corners of the
_________.
6. White or light backgrounds feel _________ to us than dark backgrounds because
we can see _________ during the _________ and only _________ at _________.
7. We feel more _________ looking at pointed shapes; we feel more _________ or_________ looking at rounded shapes or curves.
8. The larger an object is in a picture, the _________ it feels.
9. We associate the same or similar colors much more _________ than we associate
the same or similar shapes.
10. We _________ contrasts, or, put another way, contrast enables us to _________.
Assignment
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AssignmentImage: a bird or birds attacking a victim Groups of three or four students
Each student creates an separate image The group uses three colors plus white
Scissors and colored paper only (no pencils!)
Keep the shapes as simple as possible
Avoid a realistic representation of body parts
Before you begin, ask yourself two sets of questions:
1. SUBJECT AT HANDWhat is the essence of the person/creature/thing I want to represent?What specific elements in this situation evoke strong feelings in me?How can I accentuate these?
2. EMOTIONS and PRINCIPLESWhat feeling do I want to evoke with this picture?What principles might I use to do this?
Keep returning to these questions when your picture doesnt seem to be working.