grids

 UNIT4: GRID, SCALE, PROPORTION
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Objective: To explore the differences between size and scale.

To use various measurement tools and transformation techniques as aids to visual expression.

Project Overview:  Your challenge is to plan and execute a composition that illustrates transformation of scale, and the relationships between elements with different scale. By using a grid, you have to enlarge one image/element, and to reduce it. You can include a second image, and instead of reducing and enlarging the same one, you can reduce one and enlarge the other. The composition must have from 1 to two images/elements (repeated as many times as you need) and at least two transformations: enlarging and reducing. Fell free to experiment with symetry and mirroring effects to create your composition. . 

 

References:  Chuck Close. Richardson, John et al, "Grids, mazes, and modules," Basic Design, Prentice-Hall, pp. 16 - 33, 1984. (optional). Collins, Dan, "Anamorphosis and the Eccentric Observer," Leonardo, Vol. 25 - 26, 1992. (optional)

http://www.asu.edu/cfa/wwwcourses/art/SOACore/scalelive.htm

Vocabulary: grids, proportion wheel, scaling by percentages, mapping, size, scale, proportion, ratio

Materials: No less than 9 X 12 illustration board or paper, your choice of black and white media plus one color. You can use color paper to add one more color.

Process: -Have a look at the scale and grid info in Launching the imagination, and check the links above for further references and information.

-Find images that have a clear/interesting and recognizebla shape/outline (e.g., a glove, face, flamingo, etc), no smaller than 3" and no larger than 11" in any dimension.

-Sketch a composition with your elements, and decide how big or small they are going to be. It´s key to know the size of your paper, and it´s proportions, and to have the composition completely planed out before you start to use the grid. That way you know how many times do you have to reduce or enlarge your element.

-Using transparency or tracing paper, create a grid of 1" squares large enough to accommodate your image ( you can refer to the procedure on the website on entitled "Using Grids for Scale Translation” http://www.asu.edu/cfa/wwwcourses/art/SOACore/scale_scaletrans.htm)

-If your image is small (2 – 6"), it may be easier to enlarge it, and the other way around.

-Consider the effects of scale on the image (what sort of significance does drawing a virus large-scale have?/what is the significance of drawing a planet at smaller scale?)

-Once you have your reduction and enlargement done with the grid method, you can transfer them to your final paper (in case you did not draw them on the final paper directly) using graphite transfer or transfer paper.