The Nature of Love

Edy Wong, The Nature of Love, 1/22/10, photograph, 3-5"x7" photos, FCS art classroom

With this assigment I wanted to experiment with a medium I have never used before: photography. I decided to try photography because I didn't have a lot of time to do this assignment and I figured acrylics (the medium I initially wanted to work with) would take too long and deprive me of too much sleep.

The theme in these three pictures is LOVE and the three pieces are connected by NATURE. For the first picture, I cut a small heart out of paper and stuck it in a flower bush; for the second I put a ring on top of a cute asparagus-y plant like thing; and for my final picture I hung pictures of wedding photos cut out from a magazine onto a branch of a tree/vine plant. The challenges I faced was trying to get pictures of the objects from nice angles and to make sure that the objects in the pictures came out focused and emphasized. I would have taken more pictures of different things but it was raining for the entire week so I couldn't do that.

The three pieces show a progression: in a couple's relationship, it starts out with an exchange of "I love you"s, next is the engagement ring, and finally they get married.

The Figures of Dance

Edy Wong, The Figures of Dance, 1/04/10, ink and poster paper, 22"x26 1/2", FCS art classroom

The assignment was to create a figure composition with an emphasis to space. I decided to use ballerinas as my figures because I have always admired ballet and I think the dancers are nothing short of beautiful and amazing. All ballet poses and movements are incredible, and I think they show excellent form, so that's why I chose to draw them. The hardest part of this assignment was getting the proportions right and getting the poses to look natural and realistic. I was planning on leaving their costume blank but then I realized it would look too plain so I added color only to their dresses and pointe shoes. I think doing this emphasizes space because the dancers themselves are drawn simply and incompletely, showing that their is space within them, and since the background is blank, it shows that there is space around them. After doing this project I found out that I love using ink as my medium.