Grace's Art Place

      Inspired by the work of Hilla and Bernd Becher, our assignment this week was to create a typology by shooting images of things that are the same, but different. These images are compiled into a grid and known often as a Becher grid, inspired by the Bechers, who created typologies of industrial equipment.     I had trouble coming up with a subject for this task, but as soon as the idea of doors hit my brain I stuck with it. Doors and I have a unique history. I remember that, specifically in fifth grade, my go-to doodle was a door. I drew the same door, slightly open for some dimension, (not super well because I've never really been a drawing person) whenever I found empty space on a piece of paper.      I'm not sure what inspired these drawings back then, but maybe we can thank them for my appreciation of doors today. There are so many types of doors out there. For this project I mostly stuck with single doors, with some exceptions, because I...

      While Instagram is my social media of choice, I've never been that into it for the photography purpose, but more of the social purpose. So, I never really edit my photos of my friends and I because it feels unnatural with how little seriousness I generally put into my posts, and I never really knew how to do it well.      Class this week gave me an excuse to finally learn, and now I'm unsure why I haven't been doing this all along because of how easy editing my photos was, and how much better I could make them look!      We're looking at raster-images, which are essentially grids of pixels (AKA picture elements) that together form complete images.       The photos that I edited were originally in my visual scavenger hunt slideshow in my previous post. These all had a resolution of 4032 x 3024 pixels which totals to be 12.2 megapixels, the total possible from my iPhone camera.      I edited using Pixlr ...

  Exploring Toledo from a new perspective.  For class, we had to do a little scavenger hunt that let me search for and find the elements of art in everyday places! I searched for elements like pattern, texture, form, balance, and more wherever I could find it.  I currently live on campus and I don't have a car here, so I was worried that being land-locked would limit my range of pictures. Turns out, if you just look around, you can find these elements anywhere and everywhere. I had fun running around like a mad woman taking pictures of the most random things in other people's eyes, but getting excited when I saw a cool opportunity for some negative space, or a unique rhythm.  You never know what's around you until you stop and focus your eyes on what is right there. Here's a little slideshow that I made very conveniently on my iPhone to showcase my scavenger hunt. 

      Hello there! Welcome to "Getting Art Smart". I'm Grace, and I'm pretty new to this idea of art and what it means. Up until this semester of my college career, the word "art" to me just meant either:  That class I went to a few times a week in elementary school where I made that papier-mâché dog and felt like I had to make everything perfect and just like the teacher's example. Or... The paintings and sculptures set up in an art museum that I wasn't "smart" enough to understand or draw meaning out of.  But, after just two weeks of taking classes like "Foundations of Digital Media", "Critical Approaches to Cinema", and "Introduction to Photography", I'm learning that art comes in so many different forms and I see and understand it in my everyday life way more often than I thought.       One form of art that I've admired, appreciated, and even tried to make myself, is music videos. Music videos have ...