Purpose:  This assignment is about finding effective and interesting compositions. When designing art compositions, there are “rules” to consider.

Criteria:

1. Find at least 9 effective and interesting compositions.

2. Link, by identifying and writing on the back of your page, five of your compositions to five different composition "rules" below.

From the book Design Language by Tim McCreight:

…Here are a few of the rules of composition:

• symmetry tends to promote stability

• diagonals are more active than horizontals

• proximity creates tension

• sameness is frequently boring

• regularity creates rhythm

• contrast exaggerates and effects

• equal amounts of figure and ground confuse the eye

1. Please make a square 1.5”-2” viewfinder (I will show you how) and clip it into your sketchbook for this assignment.

2. Using your viewfinder, look through magazines and find interesting compositions by sliding the “frame” over the page. Please try to look for compositions that are more about shapes, colors, and textures, NOT about specific objects. Most if not all of your cut-out compositions should be almost unidentifiable. When you find one you like, lightly trace the frame and cut it out.

3. Arrange and glue these small compositions in a grid at the top of your sketchbook page.

4. You should have at least 9 compositions in your sketchbook.  Please neatly number each one.

5. Below your grid of compositions WRITE which of McCreight's "rules" apply for FIVE of your compositions and explain WHY they apply. Please be sure to indicate with numbers, etc., which ones you are explaining.