Using a variety of different shades of black and white, I created a gradient using small scraps of magazine paper. Before I began constructing this composition, I spent hours sifting through magazines, collecting a wide variety of different shades and paper types. Once I had a sufficient amount, I began to compile layers of magazine paper into a sketchbook. This was the most difficult aspect of this project. In order to make the light intensity transition smoothly, I had to stop and view my composition from a distance. Doing so allowed me to locate areas of the piece that made dramatic jumps that were much harder to see up close.
Part 2 of this assignment was quite different from the first. Instead of using small samples of black, gray, and white, this portion of the project utilized gradients in the transition between light intensities. Although this portion of this exercise used less material than the first, gradients are difficult to come by in magazines, adding a little extra challenge to this assignment. However, once I had found enough gradients, I simply had to arrange them in a manner that that gave them the appearance of a smooth transition between light intensities.
Personally, I favor part two over part one. The compositions created from using small samples of color in part one have a very jagged appearance that, when viewed from up close, took away from the illusion of a smooth transition. Part two, however, can be viewed from any distance and give off this illusion.
Overall, this project gave me a much stronger appreciation and understanding of light intensity and saturation. Before working on this project, "black was black, grey was grey, and white was white". But after spending hours flipping through magazines searching for a specific shades of black, gray or white, differences in light intensity and saturation become much more apparent.
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