Proportion Study with Line, Point and Edge

Here is my proportional study with line, point and edge. I wasn't really clear on these instructions (so what else is new). But I was thinking about a wave as my force of nature. I started on a standard arithmetic grid. I tried to get the center of the wave a little up and right of center of the canvas. My hope is that the viewer's eyes will move from the busy bottom left to the center of the wave. I did this in blue and white instead of black and white. Then I decided it needed a little more depth. So I made a layer using a gradient of ocean colors and liquified it to mimic the swirl. I then lowered the opacity of the blue background so the color variations showed through.

Letterforms

Our assignment was to produce a compilation of 9 letterforms into a 3 X 3 grid. I decided to use the letter D since I'm from Big D (Dallas, TX). The center D has a flying Pegasus, the old logo for Mobil Oil. When I was growing up in Dallas, there was a neon Pegasus spinning on top of the Mobil building. It was the most recognized landmark of downtown Dallas. I took a picture of a smaller version on another building and used photoshop to have him leaping through my center D. The other Ds I did in black on white background. It looked rather dull, so I decided to add a little gray as a background. When I did, the letters created a mask, leaving their outline in white on the background layer of my image. I thought the white letters on gray looked better than the black on white. So I made all the layers invisible except the background and the center D. This is one of those assignments where I am taking John's word that the process is more important than following the specific details of the assignment. So I decided to ignore those instructions that I didn't like - such as having all black and white and having all the letters the same size. This, I think is much more interesting.
Thanks for viewing.
Ann

Contrast studies

For my contrast studies, I choose circles to do in random and in orderly layout. I really tried to do this in black and white. But the red circle really wanted to be there. I did both images in photoshop.

Midterm