Zentangle

There is no subject since the project was to make designs that when lined up looks like the the shades get lighter. The work was made with a pen and small piece of watercolor paper. I chose to make that art work because it was the assignment.

I think that I used framing separating the paper into one inch squares thereby framing each section. I redid the entire project because I felt that some of my squares did not line up with the other ones.

There isn’t really any meaning since the task was to create an image where to color fades/blends into the different images. The project relates to my life because I chose to draw my zentangles in black because I thought that black would be the best color to blend from a dark rich black to a bright white. It bothered me that the row didn’t match up so I redid the zentangle so that it did line up.

In the zentangle drawing there wasn’t really any setting since the objective of the art piece was to look at a black to white scale and determine a way that we were going to do that by using a pen or a pencil to create little lines that would eventually come together to show a shade of black, grey, or white. The original was made by using an artist pen and by drawing thin lines tightly compacted together to show different shades that were in correlation with the ones on the chart and that all squares had a distinct difference in the shade when looking at them side by side. The second one was done by using a pencil And making more distinct patterns between the different squares so that way when you look at them they actually look different and it's not just one shaded Square after another that doesn't represent or have any meaning. I choose to recreate this artwork because my original had some squares that looked very similar in their shade and I didn't feel that there wasn’t much of a difference between the different squares.

I think that I used formal grouping because I had taken all of the squares and drawn them next to each other causing grouping of squares. I also think that i used formal balance because if you take the center axis of the line of squares there are the same amount of squares on either side. Though the spacing outside of the drawing isn’t equal on both sides is because the paper that was originally provided was not the same size as the paper I had decided to redo my work on. My project evolved from 3 different stages the first being a first try of making the squares have a different shade to them. The second try was going to be the final try except the problem is that I had tried to darken one square which I accidentally made to dark and that forced me to have to scrap the entire thing this leads me to the third one which is the one that looks blue in the photo. The reason it looks blue in the photo is because I was using natural lighting and natural lighting is always blue since the sky and ocean are blue.

The meaning behind the artwork is to show that by using one single tool and by determining how many lines you make and the spacing between them can show the alteration of either black to white or lightness to darkness.The project relates to my life because just like anything you do you will always make mistakes and by making those mistake you learn what not to do the next time and you now know what not to do to continually make those same mistakes. I think i could have made my art better by using pen instead of pencil because pencil blends really easily making it seam like the lines are not there.