College Art and design level 3
Tuesday, 2 September 2014
Refraction
The pencil is actually not bending in reality, it just looks like it's bending due to refraction. Light travels slower in water and faster in air. Light is very important in sight. It's an important factor into seeing anything. Light can either fool us or guide us.
Claude Monet
Claude Monet later in life he developed cataracts, the lenses of his eyes became yellow and cloudy. He mostly focused on the colour of his paintings, but because of his cataracts it would become a problem. Our eyes have three kind of cone cells. They are sensitive to blue, green and red light. However their sensitivity overlaps and because we're active in the day light, our eyes are most sensitive to yellow light. Because Monet's eyes were yellow, they acted as a colour subtracting filter. Taking away the blue and red light and enhancing yellow.
He painted a Japanese bridge over a lily pond almost every day to show the development of his eye sight.
His cataract got so bad that he decided to have his lens from his right eye removed. Our lens filter out the ultra violet light, but without it Monet could see half of his world in ultra violet, like a honey bee for example.
One day he decides to show us a painting with his right and left eye, keeping one shut each time when he painted it. His left eye showed a muddy, red and yellow world while his right showed brilliant blues and violets.
He painted a Japanese bridge over a lily pond almost every day to show the development of his eye sight.
His cataract got so bad that he decided to have his lens from his right eye removed. Our lens filter out the ultra violet light, but without it Monet could see half of his world in ultra violet, like a honey bee for example.
One day he decides to show us a painting with his right and left eye, keeping one shut each time when he painted it. His left eye showed a muddy, red and yellow world while his right showed brilliant blues and violets.
Animal Vision
Human view | Humans see the world with three types of cones: blue, red and green. |
Dog view | They have two types of cones and see the world in a dim blue and yellow |
Cat view | Cats, similar amount of cones to dogs, see in in dim cyan and purple colours, however their sensitivity is far less unless something it is moving. |
Bee view | Bees see in an ultra violet. |
Monday, 2 June 2014
Final major project
My final piece was created using Photoshop. I used a sea coral reef background, a city, a drawing I made, other pieces I made like Potatoe Head and this drawing I made in my spare time, as well as influences from the colour scheme I chose ( typical horror theme colours ). I was playing about on photoshop when I randomly morphed Jesse into some depressing filtered person. This gave me inspiration and vision right away, as well as a moral meaning.
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