1. The subject matter for this piece is one the pictures I took of two of my friends dancing. The original photo was their whole body, but I cropped it for a more interesting composition. Being in mid turn and the skirts twirling around them was a good show of movement.
2. I used texture to enhance my picture by using different textures. Like I changed the floor to wood for a more interesting texture and left the top half of the background black to make the dancers pop. The texture in the skirts showed movement within the piece, and to tell the dancer were turning, and not stationary.
3. I balanced my artwork by zooming in to focus on the movement of their skirts, so I could get more texture and movement in them. The picture also had a nice composition of one person being more in front than the other, which creates more of an interesting composition. Due to that the one up front is larger, and takes up most of the space than the person in the back.
4. I implied movement in my piece by using the movement of the lines in the skirt. My lines went in the way the skirt was flowing, or what that section of the fabric was flowing. It would have been hard to show movement if all the lines were just straight down and not with the movement.
5. I could improve my art work by adding more values and lines, which go hand in hand. My transitions could have been better, between the highlights and the darks in the piece. I could have also added more lines into the wood and made it a tighter pattern instead of a more loose one which I have. Just going in and adjusting details would make a difference.
6. I demonstrated a range of values by having parts that were completely white and parts that were left black. Using this whole range was beneficial to show all the values and not leave the piece too light or dark. Also using a lot of midtones within the skirt and transitions between the values.
2. I used texture to enhance my picture by using different textures. Like I changed the floor to wood for a more interesting texture and left the top half of the background black to make the dancers pop. The texture in the skirts showed movement within the piece, and to tell the dancer were turning, and not stationary.
3. I balanced my artwork by zooming in to focus on the movement of their skirts, so I could get more texture and movement in them. The picture also had a nice composition of one person being more in front than the other, which creates more of an interesting composition. Due to that the one up front is larger, and takes up most of the space than the person in the back.
4. I implied movement in my piece by using the movement of the lines in the skirt. My lines went in the way the skirt was flowing, or what that section of the fabric was flowing. It would have been hard to show movement if all the lines were just straight down and not with the movement.
5. I could improve my art work by adding more values and lines, which go hand in hand. My transitions could have been better, between the highlights and the darks in the piece. I could have also added more lines into the wood and made it a tighter pattern instead of a more loose one which I have. Just going in and adjusting details would make a difference.
6. I demonstrated a range of values by having parts that were completely white and parts that were left black. Using this whole range was beneficial to show all the values and not leave the piece too light or dark. Also using a lot of midtones within the skirt and transitions between the values.