GDS 108 Design Principles

(Hopscotch in the city,  Kate Inglis. "Expressive Photography, 65)  This image stood out to me because if you keep following the sidewalk, you cannot see the vanishing point. It does have a vanishing point even though we cannot see it. As it comes closer, it gets clearer, but as you look further, it gets blurrier. The lighting of the image is neat as well. There is shadows within the door frame in the back of the picture and you an tell where the light is coming from. The little girl playing just gives the image more character. 

(Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, June 1889) When I read about rhythm, I instantly thought of van Gogh's Starry Night because of the lines that are throughout his piece. It all flows with the sky and the lines used. Some show horizontal, vertical, and diagonal, but it all comes out smoothly. You can tell where the movement is going because of the line movement of the lines. The sky is going left to right across the page because the lines show a horizontal composition. While the village and tower is going up and down across the page because the lines are vertical.

I actually got this image off of my notebook from greenroom and thought it would be a good example of balance. If you fold the image in half horizontally, the image will meet up at the point. I like this design because the corners of the image are actually the same design. So it kind of balances out the image. If you fold the image horizontally in half, the corner colors will not match so the are asymmetrical.  The white figure in the middle of the image is asymmetrical because of the thick line this is cut out. Dividing the image vertically would not be symmetrical because the it is drawn.

(Frank Stella, Lac Laronge IV , 1669) The image has repetition with the flow of it because it repeats the same shapes.  The image has fusion because it has colors touching the same edges.  It contains the same shapes but different colors within each repeated shape.  It contains full circles and half circle which gives the image fluency because all the sections are curved. The image shows the grouping of the half circles shown in the image. It has a great color flow and distract from the focus of the image. It keeps the viewer's eyes flowing throughout the image.