Kristin Becker's DTC Classes at WSU

This is a picture I took one night with my boyfriend. Our shadows hold a physical transparency and weren’t very opaque because the light source was further away. You can see the shape of our bodies, but also the texture of the wall through our silhouettes.

Ceramic Plaque, FINEARTS340

I chose to use something that I had made in one of my fine arts classes. This was a plaque we had made in class as a sort of ‘mini project’ to learn how to use different glazes, ect. So as I was reading the chapter on color I realized how I unintentionally used the primary colors within the pineapple ( red, yellow, blue). The area I used it in is basically the focal point of the art and I was able to use a sort of color contrast in the back with the purple and green and the whole thing together is able to appeal to ones eye and create a balance in the composition.

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This picture of me was taken on the media day of women’s basketball team in WSU and the photographer decided to project the flag of our countries on us. The result was obvious. I was like a separate layer from the flag and i was behind it. The questions is why am i still visible? Because the layer of the flag is transparent, it’s opacity is below 100 so it’s possible to observe what’s under. This picture makes me think of photoshop and how we can use opacity/transparency, which is a powerful tool to provoke some nice effects.
This picture has also a lot to do with color. As the chapter say, we can’t see color without light, and light is going to change the way we perceive that color. Th equipment I’m using is white, but depending on what part of the flag is pointing at me, it might look either white, green or red. And we can also see that the floor, which is light brown with the lights on, it looks either grey or even black for the simple reason that there is not light on it, so we are not able to distinguish it color.

Photo taken by me in the coffee lounge inside of the CUB

This booth provides a good example of transparency, as the low opacity of the circles allows them to sort of blend in with the background color. [This is also an interesting example of how color can create the illusion of transparency: The thread in the textile isn’t really transparent, but the tints (hue + white) of red and green are similar in value (relative lightness or darkness), which helps give the illusion.] The different shades of color in this booth allow it to form an interesting pattern. Without color the pattern wouldn’t seem the same. I have heard of opacity before, and used it as a term for things on the web, but for some reason never thought of it in terms of every day objects. Its nice to be able to appreciate the careful design that goes into the things around me.