Research and Reference- 1st Assignment

Naive Art

Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma Mosses" (1860-1961)

Taken from http://www.notablebiographies.com/Mo-Ni/Moses-Grandma.html

Anna Maru Robertson born in Greenwich, New York and was one of the best known artist in America who did not have any formal art education. She was the third of ten children born to a farmer Russell King Robertson. When Grandma Mosses was young she loves to draw happy colorful scenes.

Naive art is almost similar to Folk art but they are different in the way where naive art is less concerned with social structures, political correctness and traditions. Naive art is now known as one of the important style due to the changing styles around yet remains almost the same.

It is characterized as a refreshing innocence and the used of bright colors, child-like perspective and idiosyncratic scale which then portrays an understanding idealized scenes of our daily life.

Elements of design :

• Lines marks were made with brush and value of lines are solid.
• Shapes are easily defined and understandable.
• Directions of the paintings are mainly vertical gives a feeling of balance, formality and alertness.
• Size of far away drawings are smaller and nearer drawings are bigger.
• Texture is soft hard glossy (mostly oil painting).
• Colors used are mostly bright colorful colors.
• Tone has a mixture of darkness and brightness.

Principles of design :

• Is balance.
• Gradation is static, it starts from light to dark.
• Not much repetition is used.
• Contrast in direction horizontally.
• Harmony in paintings is used, there are similar lines and sizes of objects next to each other.
• Dominance of size to attract interest.
• The unity of the drawings is to make it look cheerful.

My very first time

It is my first time using the Adobe Photoshop CS3. At first I have no idea how to use it and so I started playing around with the tools and watched a few videos on "how to use photoshop CS3" I couldn't really see the difference with some of the tools I've use and so after playing around with all kinds of tools, this is what I get.

BEFORE

AFTER

This was one of the pictures that I took when I was still studying in Sunway College last year.

And this was what I did in my edited picture:

1. I cropped the picture to focus more on myself since the is about who I am.

2. I duplicate a layer of this picture.

3. I use Gradient Tool (G)

4. Chose an orange mixed with yellow color, using the diamond gradient tool from the Gradient Tool (G) as my background.

5. Lastly I then used the Smudge Tool (R) and smudge the background of the picture with brush size 13 and 19.

That was what I did after trying out so many times. I hope that this is ok but I also hope that I could learn more and understand better about this Adobe Photoshop CS3 so that I can do better the next time. =D

This is me

I am a type of person who loves to smile and laugh ever since I was young. There's a quote that I like where it says "A joyful heart is the best medicine." This was why I learn how to think in the most positive way as I can in order to keep me from being angry or sad, which then makes me into a very patient person. At times, I can also be very straight forward when I give my opinion about things or people.

I love to sing play piano, sketch pictures and scenery's when I have the mood to draw, travel, going for adventurous outdoor activities such as, hiking where I can get to climb up high rocks, boat rafting and many more. Hence being around with little children and also being a listener or helping others in their hard times are also part of my interest. But, sometimes I don't really have the confidence in myself to do so. This was why I decided to do my degree in psychology.

This was one of my

sketches that I drew for my project.

My dream is to travel around the world and to get a good job or to be a child psychologist because I am happy being around with children. Thus, helping children who are having hard times from different kinds of family background for them to live a happier life. Lastly being a good psychologist is my aspiration.