Image retrieved from an money auction site. icollector.com http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/15329/15444241_5.jpg?v=8CFD30C89AFD700

For this blog post I have chosen the Austratalian five dollar bill. Even though there were many beautiful bills that I saw online, it was hard to choose one because the true colors of the bill were not necessarily the true colors of it. Considering that people post images using many different types of technologies sometimes the true nature of the item is not portrayed. Nonetheless, after looking at many different images of the five dollar bill, I feel that I chose one that is accurate or very close to the colors of the real bill.

There are many different elements that would make want to keep this bill. First, there is a female on the front!! Living in the US, all off the bills have males on them and it is empowering to females to see a female on an item that is so important to all of us. Secondly, one of my favorite design styles is to make a composition in black and white and one or a couple pops of color. Well, on this bill, they did the opposite, which I rather enjoy. It think that is a great way to make something standout and with so much color on this bill, using black and white for the female stops her from blending in to the background. In addition with the use of lines, curves, and shading they create texture to the bill. The curves lines that go across the bill give the illusion that you can touch them and feel the outline. The lines of the female’s hair as well as the small lines on the leaves makes them look realistic. So much has been done with simple lines! It’s great!

Mely