logo

Creating this logo opened my eyes to see what I valued the most in life.  At first it was hard to start but as the thoughts kept flowing it became easier.  My finally image as you can see posted below has mi vida es me familia written in the center of the heart.  It trasnlates to my life is my family.  I outlined the heart with black to show that my heart is strong and never letting my family go.  I choose spanish because my husband and children are hispanic.  The rays of sunshine coming off the heart are in green and yellow.  This shows my pride in my Irish heritage as well as symbolize happiness.  Green and yellow are my favorite colors and represent life and energy which I believe I am full of.  I did this project in crayon to show although I have a family I am still young at heart.  I learned from all the resources that a logo should stand out.  It should be easy to copy and it should also be postive.  I think that my logo did this in creating a postive image of what I value in life.  I think that the videos were very educational.  It showed the power a logo can really have if created right.

materials

I thought creating the scale and the color wheel was a fairly easy task.   I think it brought to memory on how to work with various mediums.  I enjoyed working with the paint because it brought back the sense of creativiety i felt in my childhood that I haven't used in a while.  The most important studies in this creation I think was following directions.  I think it was important to make sure that you follow all the details so that it comes out right.  As I stated in my posts for the chapter reviews I thought the videos were a little dull.  While they did teach important facts, they were really dry and to the point.  The one video that  I uploaded did show anything, it was just audio.   I wasn't sure if it was just my computer or how it was supposed to be.

Elements and Principles

While making this project, I used the pictures I took from my trip to St Louis and from the pictures I took from a birthday party I went to with my kids.  It took me a while to actually get this posted to my blogger because when I was using photobucket, I was trying to post it directly from the site, but for some reason, it wasn't posting.  So I had to take the embed code and post it directly here.  I did my best and im pretty sure I have everything labeled and is correct.  I hope you enjoy.

video response

In the first video I watched, Aesthetics Philosophy of Arts, I learned several new things.  I wasn't aware of famous pholosophers writing books of interpretation of art.  I learned that Plato had very low opinions of artists.  He wrote a book called the republic that basically said that artist copy reality.  That they are mearly only making a copy of a copy.  I learned that Arisotle felt different.  He believed that peots were artists becuase they had to create things because they weren't possible know how they are.  I learned that over time art evolved, it used to be in the middle ages just mearily reading and not asthetics.  The first video taught me that art is an expression of emotion.  The other video,  Neurology taught me several things as well.  I wasn't aware that true art should not be realistic to attract people but rather be aesthetically pleasing.  This means that the art should apeal to the eye and exxagerate, distort and even alter to produce and image that people will like.  I also learned that there are eight laws of art that one must follow to achieve something that is aesthetically pleasing.  I did however remember learning this in a highschool art class before but the video went much more in depth