Grace's Art Place

 

 

      While I know type is important, I haven't had to pay too much attention to it in the past, so it's interesting to hear of the objective and subjective qualities that typefaces can have.     I would have assumed legibility and readability were the same prior to reading this article. It makes sense now that a typeface could be legible by design, but placed and formatted in a way that gives it very low readability.      This article definitely made me feel like I need to do some solid research on my typeface choices before making decisions in the future. Factors like design intent, aesthetics, and mood make sense, and are things that I think we more naturally think about, whether or not the best decisions are made. However, prior to reading this, anachronisms aren't something I thought about a ton, but I see why it's important to avoid them.     Typeface isn't something that I've considered the history of much, but it makes sense that...

  Art making has always challenged me to be more observant of the world around me, to tune into things I normally might ignore.  I thought my found type-face was a good representation of this as well, comprised mostly of things I noticed in my day-to-day life. So I chose to spell the word observant with those letters.  I kept the background flat so it wouldn't distract from the already busy variety of letters. 

      If you're paying attention, letters are everywhere. Using the world around me, with some rotation and cropping, I a was able to find the entire alphabet. 

 I created this first letter collage with a variety of images from a trip to New River Gorge this past fall.    This image was created with a group of photos from Christmas Day, 2022. We went down to the river to skate around for a little and took some fun pictures. Most of these limbs are mine, but my sister's leg makes an appearance from one of the photos where she was holding me.                     

          I lots of fun practicing with masks and other photoshop features to make an experimental self-portrait. I also tried to implement the figure-ground principle a bit, and saw how masking can play a nice part in working with positive and negative space. 

       Using masks on photos from our point, line, and plane exercise, I tried to create an image that called some attention to the figure/ground principle. Using a simple background and masking/coloring my original pictures so they weren't very recognizable were some things I did to call attention to the relationship between positive and negative space and how they interact.