Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Richard Pallo Project 1

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  1. KennySeptember 15, 2009 at 1:31 PM

    The one thing i really like about this picture is how it looks so realistic. Since most of the trees and grass are natural looking, you assume nothing is weird about this piece. Until you see there are actually little things hidden throughout. I thought that was really creative. I also thought the use of the blurred orange object in the front helped give a sense of depth.

    The one thing i would've changed is how most of the edited part of this picture seems to fall on the right side. Since so much was changed on the right but not on the left, it feels uneven.

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  2. mremesiSeptember 15, 2009 at 1:49 PM

    This is a pretty good-looking piece I see a few areas that could use some improvement but there is plenty of time. I cant tell but it looks like this is some kind a texture used in the trees and I think that could have been left out because form a distance it looks like maybe the printer did that and it takes away form the piece. I do like the little drawing of the guy to the right it adds character and also draws the eye over to make a nice movement to the composition. A few things I do see is first of all the object out of focus in the front is hard to identify and I feel it needs a little bit more focus and the card doesn’t really go well.

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  3. AbbySeptember 15, 2009 at 6:21 PM

    From a distance, the first thing I notice about this piece, is that it is very realistic. However, after seeing it up close I get a different feeling towards this snap shot of reality. I feel as though I am seeing this particular street at two different times. Possibilities I have considered is that the left side of the piece in during the Summer, and the right side then progresses into Fall. Another thought is the left side is a nice day outside and the right side is a stormy or cloudy day. This concept makes me think of a play off happiness verses sadness. Mechanically, the curving line in the center of the piece brings the viewers eye into the composition quite nicely. I love the drawn figure on the right side, I feel as the viewer we grasp a little bit of your personality.

    There are a few things in this piece that I feel could use a little tweaking. The orange blur (looks to be a flower) in the foreground I feel is a little distracting. I love that it gives that pop of color and helps to further the sense of depth, but it seems out of place. Another thing that feels out of place is the card behind the tree. The texture in the trees I feel is not needed, since the feel of this piece is very organic or natural, I don’t feel that it adds to the piece, rather it takes away from it.

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  4. Mikey NolandSeptember 16, 2009 at 12:10 PM

    your piece seems to go along the lines of abstract realism or photo manipulation. The scene seems to be broken into two areas. On the left you have a bright highly saturated tree line with a blurred flower in the foreground, while the right side of the picture is desaturated and has larger amounts of shadow. I think you could play with this concept a little more almost as like "the grass is always greener on the other side" type of concept. I would really like to see more of the hand drawn figures drawn through out the scene as if they were playing or walking by. The opacity setting for the one figure almost gives off a ghost appearance of some sort and that might also be an idea to play with. Over all I like your work and I think if you added in some subtle changes your piece could go in many different directions.

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