Free project - Kolesa

Kristen Buckner is the artist that helped inspire me. Her artwork (yin yang dragons above) is what I based the idea of my piece.I used the idea of having two separate "floating" entities representing each side. Also, the bottom right dragon is holding a ball the color of the dot so I thought I would add that.

This piece has a yin yang in the middle. There are two people floating in a circle. One is white and wearing warm-color clothes. He is also holding a black ball or orb. The other is black and wearing cool-color clothes. She is also holding a white ball or orb. The white guy looks happy-go-lucky while the black girl looks distressed or annoyed.

There is balance in this piece. It's split into two equal pieces with the yin yang in the exact middle.There is also movement. The movement of the people synced with the movement of the yin yang takes the eyes in a full circle. Also the variety of the piece keeps making you look at both sides at the opposites of the sides.

The meaning of the piece is the literal representation and the personification of yin and yang. The black part of yin yang represents feminine, sadness, black, calm, softness, negativity. The black girl to the left looks very negative. The white part of yin yang represents masculine, happiness, white, energetic, hardness, positivity. The white guy on the left looks very happy. The contrast of the color of their eyes, mouth, and the orb they hold represents the opposite color that exists in each of the sides.

I like this piece, but I feel I could have done better. I could have added some type of shading. And made the whole piece bigger. Other that that, I think it was a success. It's very simple and I needed to get my point across,. According to other people, I did that part well too.

Visual Narrative project - Kolesa

The piece is a girl talking to her friend while her family menacingly stand in a group and stare at them. There is  a comic book, cartoony, or anime-like vibe.

Emphasis is on the black figures with the lines radiating from them, but there is also a separate emphasis on the two in the foreground with their bright colors contrasting the purple background.

The story of the piece is that the girl is with her friend. But since her family is very overprotective, if she has a boyfriend then they will probably interrogate him like crazy. So she tells her friend to be careful as not to do anything that might bring attention to them as being together.

I like this piece. Well, at least the idea of it. I could have done a better job at the execution part, but I think I did a decent job. I would change the expressions on the people's faces. A more distinguishable angry face on the black figures. Make the girl look at the guy so it was more obvious who she is talking to. Have the guy looked scared or worried, not sad.