Monday, January 16, 2006
Project 1 - The Essential Elements 1 - The Power of Shape
Well with our plan to go through the first project this Wednesday, I figured I should present the point of the first project.
I figure I might as well directly quote the introduction of the project (note that this is copyrighted by Collins & Brown and John Hedgecoe).
I figure I might as well directly quote the introduction of the project (note that this is copyrighted by Collins & Brown and John Hedgecoe).
"Of all the essential pictorial elements, shape is the most basic to our understanding of objects and scenes. From a distance somebody can be recognised by shape alone, because a figure once robbed of its form, texture or colour is reduced to the most powerful element - that of a silhouette, which is pure shape."