Brianna's Cyber Hand!

Use of the opaque complementary colors, blue and orange, against dark and copper metallics. Variety in media, plastics metal, and wood on either side. Near symmetrical, some sense of unity, and reoccurrence of copper pennies.  

Alanna, Heart of the Country!

My first heart was taken on top of a rock up on the Blue Ridge Parkway, it is very simple. I definitely could have added more materials to it, however, to me when I'm hiking through the mountains it is the least materialistic place to be, and everything is as simple as I can imagine. In this image, repetition is found from the leaves, sticks, and rocks used. It is near symmetrical due to the heart not being measured precisely, and my feet being added to the photo to add scale. This photo is a great example of texture due to the roughness of the rocks that is shown through the image very well. I used a basic color scheme of neutrals, yellow, and green to stay with a natural theme of the woods. The single yellow sunflower is standing alone in the center of the heart to add emphasis.

Matthew Shares!

The natural piece has a shallow space, neutral colors, real texture, and a symmetrical balance.

Samantha and Sons!

THE second piece was from my youngest sons toys or our floor
decorations. This shape is also geometricwith real texture. I used
several colors so it is polychromatic.  IT is also a shallow space
that is symmetrical. There is repetition with the toys and color. The
emphasis of this piece are the soldiers in the center.

Karen's All American Heart!

My 4th of July heart is made from sparklers, pop-its, glow sticks and a flag.The colors are .polychromatic. There is variety in different items and a  repetition and rhythm in placement..The texture is real. There is line that is implied at the top of the heart to make its shape.I would say balance is informal because not quite equal on both sides..The emphasis is on the flag which in proportion to other items is large.there is also geometric shapes.

Katya B.'s Sweet Heart!

The first image is composed of cherry tomatoes, dried blueberries, Lifesavers, Jolly Ranchers, peppermints, and MnMs. All of the things I'm not really supposed to have unless my blood sugar has hit 70. I tried for formal balance/symmetry to convey my attitude towards candy - look but don't eat. I utilized color to add variety, and attempted to establish a rhythm by alternating the Jolly Ranchers and Lifesavers by color. However, because I didn't have enough of certain colors, the the repetition wasn't perfect, which also amounts to have a near-symmetry rather than formal balance overall. The relationships between colors are varied. For instance, the red, white, and green colors don't fulfill any triad, but red and green are complimentary and white is neutral. The same applies to the Jolly Ranchers, which were red, blue, green, and pink, giving a mix of both cool and warm colors. 

Sherry H. Keeps the Balls Rolling!

Heart #1 For the love of the game

 Texture-real, variety-yes, inside of the heart is all of the things that are used at the ballfield.  Space is shallow. Emphasis is on the baseballs that outline the shape of the heart and they set the tone for what is inside of the heart.  There is repetition in the the outline of the baseballs but not for what is inside.  No proportion/scale but there is unity. 

Laurie S, Lets the Good Times Roll!

FIRST PIECE: GAMES OF THE HEART

The emotional game the mind plays with the heart when you are in love gave me inspiration for this piece .This particular piece uses a referential heart shape. Pieces from poker chips, playing cards, pool balls and dice form a nearly symmetrical image.   All of these games pieces are geometric shape. The texture is real. This piece has mainly neutral colors with touch of unilateral warmth. The darkness of red chips and the lightness of the white chips could create a sense of value.  There is no rhythm but maybe some repetition with the colors and shapes. All of the pieces used were found around my house so I guess it’s economical.  The negative shape from the back drop gives a sense of deep space but this piece has height, depth and width so it is an actual 3-D image.

Ozan blows my mind!

1. Button Heart:  I am the repository for both of my grandmothers and mothers sewing leftovers and as a result have accumulated a lot of notions.  Some of these buttons I recognize as extras from clothing that was made for me and my siblings when we were younger.
 -Color Harmonies: this is polychromatic, utilizing neutral, cool and warm colors.
 -Texture: This has real texture
 -Balance: Symmetrical balance.  Although each specific button may not correspond exactly, the color, type, placement and shape of buttons correspond on each side.
 -Repetition: The interior heart and exterior heart repeat, as do the circular shape of the buttons and spools of thread

 -Emphasis/Focal point: The red interior heart draws attention to the center of the piece.

2. Salad heart:  We like to eat our vegetables! There is a salad of some sort at every dinner in our house and we are fortunate to be able to eat together most nights.  Eating together is an important ritual for our family.

 -Color harmonies: This heart uses a combination of warm and cool colors

 -Texture: This has real texture

 -Shape: This is composed of items of organic form

 -Value contrast: The light of the cheese against the dark of the spinach leaves and tomatoes, the pale green cucumber against the vibrant carrot

 -Emphasis: Placement and repetition of colors/patterns creates emphasis

 -Repetition: There is repetition in the lines of carrots/cucumbers

Eric's Tough Heart!

For the second one I had the idea of an exploding heart.  Again my mental image was not quite realized.  I used split wood, two branches, a splitting maul, and the previously un-split section at the base.  It was raining, so the gravel under my shed became the background.

Again, there is lots of repetition: the angles, grain, and colors of the split wood.  There is a sense of rhythm created by all the wood falling away from the maul and the viewer.  The darker branches were supposed to accentuate that rhythm, but…

There is a little variety.  Mainly resulting from the difference in shade between the split wood, stump, and branches.  The yellow handle of the maul provides variety of color and texture.

This is again near symmetrical and that is true to the idea that I had—the symmetry of the heart was to balance the chaos of the exploding stump.

The emphasis appears to be in the bottom of the stump.

I would say this is an example of three-dimensional space.

Everything is proportional.

I attempted to use the lines of the split would and the branches to create the sense of explosion.  There is also straight lines created by the split stump and the maul.

The texture is real, definitely rough. 

Value applies more than color.  There are certainly different colors in the split wood, branches, and base, but they are all sort of different values of the same substance.

Bethany M., Queen of the Stone Age!

Love in Nature

Repetition: The rocks are repeated throughout the art piece along with the heart shape.

Variety: Variety of nature: Rocks, sand, leaves, and mulch

Balance: The shape and color of rocks make both sides different, but with the shape of the heart consistent keeps the art work balanced.

Rhythm: The heart shape shows rhythm as it goes from leaves, to sand, to rocks.

Emphasis: The 3 heart shapes leaves with smallest inside the one and medium leaf inside larger leaf makes the eye go directly to the center, and with the green of the leaves stands out with the neutral colors.

Texture: The rocks give a rough feel, then with the coolness of the sand, and smoothness of the leaves. 

Color: Monochromatic, Green w/

Neutral colors: Brown, and White

Carla H. Shares her love!

Ilovewine!

These are materials found in my husband and I’s wine and spirits bar.

Repetition: Wine corks, stoppers, wine foil cutters, mixed drink strainers, and wine glass charms evenly and symmetrically surround the wine corkscrew in the middle.

Variety: Wine corks, stoppers, wine foil cutters, wine glass charms, mixed drink strainers, and a wine corkscrew.

Rhythm: Beginning to end. Strainers, foil cutters, corkscrew and corks prepare the drinks, the wine glass charms identify the drink while drinking it, and then the stoppers close the remainder.

Texture: Real

Shape: Geometric

Balance: Symetrical

Color: Polychromatic. I tried to separate the cool from warm colors on each side of the heart. Most of the colors are tertiary, complementary, and neutral.

Space: Shallow

Shirloyn's love story!

Painter tools Heart

My husband Harrie is a self-employed painter. This heart is made up of items he use in his job.

Repetition: Putty knives & placement of brushes, 2 lid openers, bucket hooks placed evenly around heart

Variety: Putty knives, spackling, brushes, measuring tape, 2 lid openers, bucket hooks

Rhythm: Metal objects outside, business cards inside

Texture: Real

Shape: Geometric

Balance: Putty knives, brushes & hooks inside (informal)

Color: Orange, red, blue, black and yellow. Majority Primary Triad

Space: Shallow

St. Valentine... meet St. Augustine!

This is a referential shape, and color is polychromatic.

Balance is near symmetrical, and there is repetition with emphasis on the heart shape in the middle of the project. The project has variety, and real texture with organic shape.

Don't mess with Texas OR Lauren M.!

LAW ENFORCEMENT HEART

This heart is made up of items my boyfriend uses in his law enforcement job. 

Repetition- yes, this is on the patterns and the placement of the bullets.

Variety- comes from the type of bullets, the whistle, hand cuffs and magazine clips

Rhythm- yes, the larger more powerful bullets are on the outside, the less are on the onside.

Texture- yes,  all exist in real life

Shape- geometirc

Balance- balance  is in the placement of the ammo and is the same on each side, informal

Color- red and blue, and mostly metallic, but mostly come form the primary color triad.

Space- this is a shallow space.

Victoria H. is Cookin!!!

The elements I used in my first "culinary heart" are mainly balance, symmetry, and color. I have placed everything meticulously and evenly on both sides so that the piece has formal symmetry and balance. I also chose a bold colored casserole dish and spices. I chose culinary articles (spices, forks, butter knives, spoons, carving knives, and a casserole dish) because of my love for cooking and the colorful aspect of the piece shows cooking is fun.

Susan L. tells her story!!

Recently, in my household we have had many reasons to celebrate with multiple graduations and holidays.  Also, when your husband is employed by a beer distributor like mine...beer is just stacked in our garage craving an ice packed cooler!  So, I decided to use the beer as well as some of my husband's freebie aluminum can koozies that clutter the back of his work vehicle.  I borrowed the bottle caps from my children's "art collectibles" bin to help provide the inner heart filler.

Repetition: Exists in many forms in this piece.  One way is the circular shapes of the components with the minor exception of the koozies.  Repetition also exists in the design of how each component continues to generate the heart shape as it spreads out from the core.

Variety:  Exists in the different types of beers and beer containers that are incorporated into the design. The koozies and red solo cups also serve as a variety element in that they both have an intended manufactured purpose to "hold" the beers.

Balance: Near Symmetrical, I was unable to achieve perfect symmetry with the bottle caps in the middle of the heart.  As well as with the koozies on the perimeter of the design.  

Rhythm: Achieved in the spacing of the different components around the core as they spread outward.  Rhythm exists in the repetition of the circular shaped objects used such as the bottle caps, brown beer bottles, aluminum beer cans, and the solo cups that generate a pattern from the inside to outside of the heart. 

Emphasis: The red solo cups are the focal point mainly because their rich red color explodes with the bright orange colored koozies as their back drop.

Unity: Oh Yeah... We typically reference red solo cups with the consumption of alcohol. The Beer itself is unified because they are all in a cylinder format for bottling reasons and they contain alcohol as a similar ingredient. The circular shapes that generate the shape of the heart from looking down on it provide unity. The koozies and red solo cups also serve as a common element in that they both have an intended manufactured purpose to "hold" the beers or liquid.

Line: The bottled beers, the beers in the aluminum cans, and the solo cups each provide some type of line as they aid the shape of the heart.  The outer most edges of the koozies generates an implied line as well.  

Texture: The design exists in real life therefore, it is real in texture.

Color: This piece is warm with cool accents.  Neutral colors of the overall concrete back ground and beers provide an increased emphasis on the red solo cups.

Penny S gets the hearts rolling!

Heart #2 - Games of Hearts 

   This piece was more of a fun piece to create.  I used pieces from four different games to design a heart of fun.  My whole family loves to play games and put puzzles together so I thought how appropriate it would be to design a heart out of something we love.  The games included Othello, Rummikub, Checkers and Blokus.

Repetition - Yes, repetition in all the games pieces and color patterns to design the heart

Variety - Yes, pieces from four different games

Rhythm - Yes, the alternating color patterns of the black a white Othello pieces in the middle.  Also the alternating red and black checkers along the outside of the heart. Just the fact that I used all game pieces supports a rhythm to the piece

Balance - Near Symmetrical, the inside red and green pieces would not match perfectly to support a symmetrical piece and neither would the numbers on the rummikub pieces

Emphasis - Color, I believe your eye is drawn all over the piece rather than one specific focal point

Line - I see vertical and horizontal lines within the green and red Blokus pieces in the center of the heart, overall shape of a heart.

Texture - Real texture, it exists in real life

Color - The middle consists of complimentary colors with the red and green.  The white and black Othello are neutrals because they contrast each other.  The Rummikub numbers around the heart are a primary triad with the red, yellow and blue.