Phoenix Satterfield's Media Fluency
My visual consists of a handful of art materials scattered across a table. The materials include pencils, value pencils, crayons, compasses, pencil sharpeners, and paintbrushes put into a mixture of warm and cool colors. Bigger objects, like the crayon box and the cup of paint, bleed off the edge, and everything else that does so isn’t necessarily an art tool. I used the same app I used with other graphic designs in my Me Magazine. The entire idea of this visual (color choice, design, etc.) originates from my art passion. I’ve used all of the tools in this visual before. I scattered all of the art materials around the paper as is if the piece of paper was a final art piece. It’s not.
It took me about a full day to design my visual. I had a low amount of reference, and didn’t really look at other pictures of the same theme, simply because it would wear down the originality of the work. I just created my own set up as I was creating the visual. Each kind of material seems to have it’s own section around the paper. It’s not sort out in any pattern of color or size. The only materials that are all over are the tan pencils, with one on a journal, another on the paper, and two more close to the paint. I also added some value on a lot of objects, too, such as the crayons, the cup of paint, and the paint itself.
You’d expect a beautiful picture based on what you see all around the piece in the center. Instead, all you see is an incredibly crappy looking pencil drawing of a rocket and another planet. I usually consider the message of my artwork before I start creating it, but I decided what moral to stick with after I finished the artwork. All of the morals I came up with had to do with variety. The one I decided to stick with is “what you allow is what will continue”. It’s simple and self-explanatory, unlike “I am within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life”. So, after considering the message, I was pretty much done.
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