Chaos : Order

Chaos: I started my chaos piece with the idea that I wanted to use a ruler. So I mixed up some red and violet and made a background changing in the middle. After that I took my ruler, pulled it threw paint and slapped it down. I kept messing with paint by using my ruler, smearing and slapping... stuff like that. This represents chaos to me, because nothing really matches or fits together to well, very random.




Order: I started my order with a blue background and then some grey streaks. After that I added some shapes and a the few white accents. This to me is orderly from the repetition and when painting everything but the shapes the brush strokes went in the same direction... dont like it....

Sophia's Chaos & Order Paintings

My Black and White piece represents Order to me because it is organized and, and has more of a form and outline:

In my black and white piece I started by first sketching out what I wanted to do on a separate sheet of paper then, on my canvas I painted a grey wash on the area I wanted my object to be. I used acrylic and water. Next still using acrylic I started adding detail line and shading.

My second piece represents chaos to me because it has no pattern and looks as though it was unintentional along with holding no specific shape or form:

On this piece I used red and white paint. First I put some white and red paint next to each other on a pallet. Then I swirled part of each color together but I did not blend them; I kept the paint colors separate but swirled. With a pallet knife I picked up the paint and spread it on the canvas.

In both pieces I used value, form, movement and balance. On the black and white piece I used unity because of the composition. For my other piece there is more negative space on the canvas then positive, and there is variety.

Chaos
1) To me, chaos is random, unplanned, spontaneous, and messy.
2)I did this piece in watercolor using only white, black, yellow, blue, and red. I chose watercolor because I know it's a medium that tends to have a mind of its own. First I wet the entire surface of the paper with an old makeup brush dipped in water, and then touched a loaded paintbrush to make small and large blobs of color. Some parts of the painting developed puddles, so I tried adding a little color to make it all swirly, and tilting the paper so it would move around a bit. Unfortunately the swirls ended up just mixing themselves together and turned an icky brown. I dabbed some of this up with a paper towel and tried to do those spots over, but since I did end up using a lot of color and all of it wet, the piece ended up sort of a blended together medium tone anyway. Lastly I took an old toothbrush, loaded it, and ran it across the handle of the paintbrush so it would splatter tiny drops everywhere. I got a little carried away with this step since it was so dang fun, as is evident since you can barely see the bottom blob layer. XP (<-face)
3) My piece has elements of texture, contrast, pattern, and color.


Order
1) To me, order is geometric shapes, bold lines, flat color or evenly shaded, and patterns.
2)I prefer using tempura over acrylic because I am messy, especially with art media, and tempura is more easily clean-up-able since it's water soluble. I covered the sheet of cardboard (experimental surface choice I probably won't reuse) with a sort of pea green. I then used drafting tape to make stencils on the surface that I could paint over. First I divided the background and added color to the two outer sides, then after it dried I taped stencils of the large triangles, added color, let dry, and then did the same for the black borders around the shapes. When I tried to do the small triangles, the light colors were letting the dark underneath them show through, an effect I did not want. I also did not want the effect lifting up the tape gave, which ripped off bits of paint AND paper!! Grrr... I tried to glue on the shapes with construction paper instead to create the effect I wanted, which is probably the medium I should have used anyway, and I tried to add some water to smooth out the parts that got lifted up by tape or cracked. This finished piece is not the result I wanted and I definitely will not use this in my portfolio XP
3) This piece shows line, shape, and color elements the most.

Order and Chaos Pieces.

Order PieceChaos Piece

To create my chaos piece I first used red and blue acrylic to make fireworks like objects and made them look like there exploding. Then I used a yellow acrylic with a little green to make my background and I let some of it dry. I tock a big paint brush and covered the rest of panel, using technique. Which created a bolder color with the background I painted over twice. After that I tock a dark green and did two drips on each side to create balance and space. Lastly, I put splats of sliver on.

To create my order piece, first I painted the two circles in black and white acrylic, and then I did the three squares on the side. I used circles and squares to represent order. The two different shapes show order in it’s different forms.

On my chaos piece I created an eerie feeling.
My Chaos piece used good balance, technique and space. I got good balance and space from the Dark green drips. I got good technique from the big brush stroke I used for the background.

On my order piece I created movement.
To create my order piece I used black and white acrylic. To many colors can cause chaos if not used correctly. I used good texture, movement and rhythm, by the different the shades of Acrylic that I used and my techniques to make texture.

I believe that chaos is when order is out of control. or you can think of order as chaos that is calm. To represent this I wanted Order to be organized, and repetitive while Chaos was random and wild.

I planned out the pieces by making sketches of how each was different and worked the sketches so that recognizable bits of order where in the chaos piece. The sketch was done as one piece so that the two would connect as one piece. I painted the order piece first so that i could get a pattern that I continue onto the chaos piece. I wanted the Order piece to glow so that the chaos piece would be bright so I pick blue and green adding yellow to brighten the green a bit and had the colors blend smoothly throughout the painting. On the chaos painting I added all sorts of different lines and forms and some movement to the work to give it more energy.

The order piece is very balance and repetitive. Analogous colors were used to keep the energy down. The these colors were also easy to blend for a satisfying look of glow. Not a lot going on.

The Chaos piece has lots of movement and contrast with the warm colors at the bottom flowing around to the cool at the top. There are jagged cuts of red through it's cool compliment green and there are some spurts where the lightning like lines hit and exit the spheres. A lot of things going on.

Blog Assignment Due 10/22

Photograph your "Chaos & Order" paintings. Post each photo, and then answer the following three questions:

1. How do these paintings represent, to you, the concepts of chaos and order? Remember some of the words you used in class:

Chaos is... organic, curves, randomness, splatter,
unintentional, etc.

Order is... geometric, straight lines, stripes, outlines,
solid colors, etc.

2. What was your process for creating each piece (describe each in detail from start to finish)?

3. Define and describe each piece in terms of the elements & principles of art represented.

Please post no later than October 24.