white on black

White on Black

How to create a work of art that illustrates transparency used to unify a work of art

that demonstrates how light advances and darks recede.

Winter Windowby Charles Sheeler

Shoesby Andy Warhol

Diptych From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A diptych is any object with two flat plates attached at a hinge. Devices of this form were quite popular in the ancient world, wax tablets being coated with wax on inner faces, for recording notes and for measuring time and direction. Ivory consular diptych of

Areobindus, Byzantium, 506 AD, Louvre.

Marilyn Diptych (1962) by Andy Warhol

Drawing Transparent Objects

Critique

• Composition: is it Balanced?– Distribution of visual

weight of objects– Does it feel stable?– Can be:

• Symmetrical• Asymmetrical• Radial

Critique

• Value and Shading– How light or dark it is– Middle grays, the haze of

transparency

• Contrast– The relative difference

between light and dark areas

Critique

• Craftsmanship– Neat and clean– Did not rush– Did not take shortcuts

• Time Management– Is class time used

efficiently