Seven Deadly Sins

I viewed "No Country For Old Men" and "Supersize Me!" for the Seven Deadly Sins project. "No Country for Old Men" exemplifies the sin of wrath, and "Supersize Me!" portrays the gluttony of a nation and a corporation.


My final triptych involved the two sins of gluttony and wrath, as well as lust.

Color . . .

For my color assignment, I used a piece by Alice Neel, a painter, as my basis. The piece is a portrait entitled "Nancy Selvage" and was completed in 1967.



Using the Palette Picker found on Worqzx.com, I created the following color palette based on the most apparent and dominant colors in the painting.



Finally, using Adobe Photoshop, I edited a picture of myself. I based the palette of my own piece after the palette i created from Alice Neel's piece, and used various filters and brushwork to make the photo look more like an oil painting.

urban decay collage. . .

Urban decay -- based on a trip to an abandoned factory.

Value: Album Cover

For this assignment, I created an album cover for the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (score by Wendy Carlos). The music in this soundtrack is mainly electronic classical music, i.e. classical pieces performed with both traditional instruments as well as electronica such as synthesizers. This style was pioneered by Wendy Carlos (originally Walter Carlos).

The album cover uses both color and value as key components in its composition. The emphasis is created because of the chiarscuro on Alex's face. The viewer's eye is drawn to this area because of contrasting values and subtle gradations from light to dark, as well as the contrasting nature of this area to the rest of the cover, where value plays a smaller role. Other areas are flattened by the use of planes of color (or black) to describe the forms of the women's bodies, instead of the three-dimentional chiaroscuro of Alex's face.