Art Gallery - Scale and Proportions Analysis

One of my favorite painting in the gallery was "The Boatman" by Abby Fasciano. The first thing that stands out of the painting is how small it is. But, the artist was able to create a lot of interest and detail even though the canvas was such a small scale. The proportion of the boat in the foreground and the sun in the background creates the most depth in the painting. Because the sun is so small and the boat is fairly large, the composition clearly conveys a sense of space.

Also, with a closer look, there are other proportions that might go unnoticed but give a very strong sense of balance in the painting. The size of the bright sky in the top half of the painting and the dark river in the bottom half are almost exactly the same size. Also the practically symmetric tree lines on both the left and right sides create a sense of balance as well. With both of these aspects, the entire painting is almost symmetrical from all sides, except for the boat which is the focal point. Overall the entire painting is well composed and uses scale and proportion excellently to create depth and to add interest.

Larger Than Life Project

For our project, me, Joel, Josh, Grace, and Devin chose to make a Super Nintendo Controller. The final project is 6 by 2 1/2 feet large with about a 3 foot long cord. The controller is made up of mostly styrofoam and poster-board paper. All of the pieces are mainly connected with glue and tape, and the entire project is painted.

This project was a fairly large challenge for all of us, mostly because of how hard it was to find the right materials and work out how to construct it. We started out by gluing three pieces of 2 inch thick foam together in order to create the right depth of the controller, and we cut the pieces out with a styrofoam cutter. In order to create the right surface texture, we glued poster-board paper to the surface and painted over that. We painted the lettering and logos on with stencils and glued the buttons on top of rolled up newspaper in order to make them pushable. I learned a lot from this project simply because I had never worked this extensively with these materials, and in order to figure out how to make it from scratch was a challenge.