Paper Jellies & A New Approach
- Oct 13, 2020
- 3 min read
This week was a long one. Not only was there a lot of work to complete but I also had a very hard time with myself this week. I have been practicing and doing several mindfulness exercises, made sure to go get a little relaxing hike in the woods, and have started to jog when I feel myself starting to spiral.
Work wise a lot of my time was spent writing one of the support pieces of my thesis paper.
Down the Rabbit Hole and a HCI Concept
For my Human and Computer Interactions class I had to come up with an interactive piece that went off the theme of "coupling" and was an experience designed for two. I started by looking for inspiration and trying to find other pieces that used two but I ended up finding this piece (which does not meet that brief) but out of all I found it is what I wanted to share this week. I am not sure how I was led there, and I can not find a lot of information on it - most of the sites it was on were not in English. But It is called The Series of Float II by PD Chueng (a new media artist) and Jackie Wen (a paper artist).
(I couldn't find their websites to each name links to their Instagram accounts.)
What a magical piece to get to experience. I love the look and movement of these little light and paper jellyfish the whole this is absolutely beautiful. While this was very pleasing to me I didn't find inspiration here for my interactive project here. So I just spent more time thinking and ended up doing an idea inspired by playing Just Dance with my closest childhood friend Emily, you can see what I came up with and read more about it in my blogpost Let's Kinect.
HCI Arduino Uno Build - Photoresistors
This Week I also put together another build for the Arduino Uno Board that uses a photoresistor to detect light and then changes the output based on the light information it senses. A simple example of this is like a nightlight that is always plugged in but only turns on when it is dark. It was cool to see the programming side of it and be able to watch all the inputs coming into the device from the sensor. Below is a video of it working. As you can see the light changes brightness depending on how much light the sensor (the piece I hover my finger over) gets.
Painting Progress
I took the measurements of the doors I need to get the cabinet through this week although I did not get to cut it down. Next week I will hopefully be able to do that. I have to go buy a tarp because I will be giving the whole cabinet a repaint and making a few other modifications and our whole place is carpet. So I need to get that before I can do anything else.
After doing the quick black and white painting last week I wasn't quite sure how I wanted to proceed. I spent some time checking out some artists I like on Art Station and seeing their process. I decided that doing the black and white helped me get more of a feel but will not be using the technique where I paint the color then over it. I ended up purchasing a Photorealistic Digital Painting Class on Udemy, that I started going through just because, as I focused on last year, I think continues learning is always going to help make my art the best it can be. I completed the first 3 sections of the course which was basically an hour and a half demo of the artist starting a digital painting.
I decided to approach my piece in a similar method so decided that I would go back and refine the sketch and then create a bunch of shapes for each component to make it easier to paint. The sketches have a lot of detail in the turtles, even the ones in the way back which you can't really see when it is on the computer without zooming in but its there. I did a detailed sketch for both the city and ocean version, but only blocked in the city once since I am not going to be digitally painting the ocean version.
I might change the under colors around and then I will be adding all the base color to everything. I think I will start by focusing on the turtles and then foreground and save the background for last. (just because I am still not 100% on the placement of the buildings.
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