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Before you start creating entries it's a good idea to see some work done by Visual Journal artists. You should look at both artists first. Next, decide which one you would like to write about.
Write at least a pargraph response about one of the artist's work. You may talk about their work as a whole or a specific page. Remember to use "artspeak". Talk about color, shape, texture, line, and how the artist used these elements of art to make something interesting. This assignment is due Wednesday, February 8th.
Here's the link to Visual Journal artist Teesha Moore:
http://www.teeshaslandofodd.com/myjournal/pages1.html
With Dan Eldon, please select his New York Book and comment on that one only.
Here's the link to Dan Eldon:
http://www.daneldon.org/journals/index.html
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both artists have their own distinct style that separates them from one another. Dan Eldon appears to be a lot darker then the Teesha Moore
ReplyDeletein aspects of inspiration. although both of them like to use thing from the real world, such as magazine clippings and photos. there lines are also very similar, and they both clearly understand the use of warm/cool color contrast.
When I look at Teesha Moore's journal, the first thing I notice is the beautifully vibrant colors she incorporates into her art. The next thing I notice is the way she deforms the human face. She splits it up into different parts with a different facial feature on each part, portrayed in a different way. Another component of her art that stands out to me is the way she depicts women. I can tell by her art, and the empowering words she incorporates into it, that she is very resistent to letting men belittle her. Overall, if I had to use one word to explain Teesha's art, I would say "powerful" because of the elements she uses, as well as the messages it sends me.
ReplyDelete-Izzy Bouklas
The very first thing I noticed about Teesha Moore’s journals was the wide variety of styles that still seemed to have a running theme. Some of these look slightly like cartoons, others are fantasy with a touch of surrealism. Every single one catches the eye with bright colors (she doesn’t like to blend) and strong, clear focal points. Dan Elden really kept my eye bouncing around each page. Each collage had different interesting shapes but they were all connected. I noticed he didn’t use as much color as Teesha but his less abstract art had meaning. He used a lot of blocky shapes and arrows while keeping plenty of organic shapes to tie it together and provide balance.
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Although each of Teesha’s pages are very unique there is a sense of unity throughout her entire journal. When I first look at one of her pages, my eye is immediately drawn to a focal point. In many of her pages this focal point is often a human face but she uses various other interesting images as well. Teesha also uses a wide variety of color in her journal, with shades that are repeated throughout the pages. One thing that I found most interesting about Teesha’s journal was her use of words. I loved how once you looked past the large images on the page,the text would add even more to the story. Teesha’s work is extremely creative and I really enjoyed how she was able to fill ever piece of the paper with her own thoughts and feelings. It was also amazing how she added so many words and images to each page while still keeping them balanced.
ReplyDelete-Hailey Connolly
Teesha Moore's journal looks very unique and i loved all of the colors she incorporated into the journal and continued to use throughout. I also liked the use of words and quotes in the background. There was unity on every page of the journal, and the pages themself were designed very well and all looked very creative and inspiring.She managed to take words and passages and turn them into beautiful artwork. Her journal overall has a very cheerful, colorful mood to it which really makes it stand out.
ReplyDelete-Melissa Blicksilver
When I looked at Teeshe Moore's artwork I noticed something’s that are similar in each piece of artwork. I noticed that in piece there is some type of face or person in it. I like how she used a lot of abstract colors. I also like how she used words in some part of each piece of work. The colors used are very vibrant. The colors are very well contrasted.
ReplyDelete-Noah Campanella
Teesha Moore's journals are by far my favorite out of the two artists. I like how she drew abstract objects in her drawings. It's interesting to me because it sort of looks un proportional but i think that she put effort in to make it proportional. I think her whole journal shows unity from the similar designs that seem to connect. She uses a variety of different Medias in all her pictures. The colors she uses together show contrast and emphasizes the focal points in her journal.
ReplyDelete-Isabella D'Aguanno
Each page of Dan Eldon's journal was unique. The pages did not contain one central focal point, but it was more focused on an overall meaning. His journal also had many pictures that were overlaping, which allowed my eyes to more across the page from picture to picture very easliy. Also, some pages of his journal was focused on different cities and countries around the world, and the events occuring in these areas. Norway, the U.S. and a picture of the Statue of Liberty, are some examples. All in all, I felt that his art was very interesting and that it can be seen as many different things from different people.
ReplyDeleteDan Eldon's work, although seemingly dark in messages, incorporates a great use of contrast while using vivid yet muted colors. One particular entry of his involves black and white pictures, but the main focal point is the brightly colored tiger. Creating this sense of contrast allows him to guide the viewer's eye exactly where he wants them to go, first from the tiger, to the larger figure, and then through the rest of the piece. Eldon has a wide color palette, and each of his pieces evokes different emotions. One piece, involving a picture of a young, smiling girl, would produce emotions of joy and serenity. Other pieces,such as one where a building is on fire, would give off emotions of fear or anxiety. Nevertheless, Eldon uses a similar color scheme throughout, with more muted color tones in some parts and brighter colors in others, and a clear sense of unity is present. I thought the way he presented words and phrases was very unique in his entries, as they blended into the artwork, and it provided a hidden meaning behind what you would see at a first glance.
ReplyDelete-Emily Haliotis
Teesha Moore's work is certainly one of a kind. She uses interesting focal points and appealing backgrounds. I really enjoy the fact that most of her backgrounds seem almost the same with all the words in them. I also like that she seemed to have stuck to more warm colors for her overall journal but threw in a couple of cool colored pages. All of her work possesses a creepy quality, especially the ones with people in them. It's intensely abstract, but not so much that you can't tell what something is.
ReplyDeleteJulia Capuano
I looked at Teesha Moore's Art work, which was really colorfull and with a really unique way of expressing her feelings! Colors, really bright/warm that pops out a lot. For most of them, she likes to deform the character's face a little bit (an eye bigger than the other...etc). I also like the fact that she has a focal point for the majority of her drawings.
ReplyDeleteAs for Dan Eldon, when you look at his paintings, they are really dark, obscur, and with a totally different mood than Teesha Moore's drawings.
In my opinion I like Teesha's type of drawing better, colorful, that can make someone be in a happy mood, only by using these specific colors!!
-Maëva Dooryhée
Teesha Moore's journal caught my eye more because of her use of color. In her journal pages there is usually a mood set by the different tones of colors she uses. Her background texts tell a story and tie into what the focal point is. The faces shown are sometimes put with colors that signify certain emotion, for example some of the sad looking faces are put with more neutral colors. Teesha also demonstrates unification and balance more so in pages with faces. The more frequent appliance of bright colors makes her work seem lively and interesting to look at.
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When I first look at Teesha’s work I immediately am drawn by the focal point. In most of Teesha’s work the focal point is usually a face. But, in her works there is usually a pattern, which is the use of warm colors. Also, in Teesha’s works she contrast with warm colors and cold colors. She uses a lot of words to enhance the visual experience. She uses bright colors and couples them with daring designs. She also uses many outlines to make key pieces of the art pop. I think Teesha’s art seems happy, but to her I think that there is a much deeper meaning to her works that we couldn’t understand.
ReplyDelete-Fotis Christoforou
The first thing that I had noticed about Teeshas art was that alot of her focal points were human heads they just pop out of the page and even if they werent the focal points there were still heads in the backround. Teesha also uses alot of colors. she filled the whole page with her emotions. she filled the backround of the paintings with words and symbols to fill in the rest.
ReplyDelete- Phil Rizzuto
When looking at Teesha Moore's journal entries all i see at first are just a bunch of vibrant colors but when i looked closer i saw a message on each page. Also Teesha uses a lot off text in the background which really unites and adds balance to the page. The other thing i found interesting is that Teeshe includes and absract figure or face in each of her entries. This figure is almost always the focal point. Overall Teesha has a very uniuqe way of making things on the page interact with each other and making it interesting fo the viewer.
ReplyDelete-Sabrina Cohn
I enjoyed all the unique artwork pieces in Teesha Moore's journal. She was very creative in the styles and colors she used in her artwork. The different techniques of warm and cool colors made it stand out. The words add a great touch to the artwork because it gives it a meaning and adds more to the story behind it. The use of shapes varies with geometrical shapes and also organic shapes. I noticed Teesha Moore repeated used faces or eyes in most of her artworks which adds creativity and unity to her art pieces.
ReplyDelete-Rachel Kontak
Even though every one of Teesha's journal artworks was different in its own right she still kept a running theme throughout all of them. Teesha's journal artworks caught my attention with a wide range of bold colors having light values and bright intensity. She keeps your eye going to a vocal point that is seen in a vast majority of her works; a human face. The most interesting thing about Teesha's journal was her use of words in her art. I thought it gave her artworks character that otherwise might not be there in its absence. I find it also awesome how she balanced all these words perfectly into the page and making it balanced. All in all, I very much enjoyed viewing her artwork; it was refreshingly creative.
ReplyDelete-Brooke Benoff
When I first looked at Teesha Moore’s journal I was immediately draw to two things, her use of bright colors in all of her entries and her main focal point, human heads. I love all of the bright colors and patterns she uses throughout her journal. I also noticed that Teesha uses repetitive shapes in her entries. She tends to incorporate words and human body parts (heads, eyes, etc.) throughout her journal. I think that Teesha’s journal is very beautiful and bright. It gives off a very happy vibe with all of the warm colors she uses. I could really tell that Teesha expressed herself through all of the pages. Her thoughts and feelings were conveyed in every entry with the text she used. Over all I really enjoyed Teesha's journal and her creative use of color and text.
ReplyDelete- Amanda Perelli
In Dan Eldon's New York and Beyond journal he uses pictures, African stylized patterns and drawings to create a realistic dream like quality throughout his journal. What I like most about his various pages in his journal is that you can clearly see his out look on the world on that day by his use of color, picture, and shape. His use of pictures as the focal point or the background gives his art in his journal a unique quality and unity that makes his journal very unique.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite page in his New York and Beyond journal is the one with a giant orange tiger as the emphasis. Not only is the color choice of the tiger what makes this page so interesting, but in the background he put black and white pictures of little boys with African style patterns on it. The pictures and the African style patterns create a rhythm/movement throughout the page. Which also creates a unity through repetition on the page. In this page, my favorite part is how the pictures, the African stylized patterns, and the tiger all work together to create a more interesting piece that is asymmetrically balanced. It also draws in the eye with the bright orange tiger which adds a contrast of color and later with the smaller details added to the black and white pictures. The texture and the mood that this page creates is soft yet bold and adventurous. The black and white pictures,the tiger,and the African patterns bring you to another world, Dan Eldon's world.
-Olivia Nelson
Dan Eldon's journal, New York and Beyond, is very interesting because each page is very different and tells it's own story. The first thing I noticed about his journal is that all of his pages are fairly dark and dull. It doesn't exactly emit a warm happy feeling but more of a depressing one. Also I couldn't understand the concept of each page but I understood the emotions they display. Another thing I enjoyed about this journal is that Dan Eldon used many different techniques that made each page unique. Most of his drawings and paintings of people in the journal are out of proportion and a little bit abstract. Dan Eldon also used many different photographs of people from many different cultural backgrounds to emphasize each page. He used words and magazine clippings to fill the background of some pages. Also all of his pages were asymmetrical which added a nice feel to his journal. Overall I really enjoyed his unique distinguishable artwork!
ReplyDelete-Andrew Micklos
I was immediately intrigued by Teesha Moore's journals. They are really just enjoyable to look at. I was initially drawn to them because of the bright colors that she used, but as I looked more closely, I could see the intricate and beautiful images that she had created. Most of Ms. Moore's pages seemed to just be cheerful, with a deep message portrayed through them. However, she also had some darker, more somber graphics that showed more of a struggle with her emotions.
ReplyDeleteI appreciated her use of faces within most of her entries. I think that they engaged me because none of them were truly perfect or completely happy-go-lucky. I also was fascinated by Ms. Moore's use of text. She incorporated it into pretty much every page, whether to comment on a found picture, as a background, or to give an important message.
While looking at Dan Eldons work there is a reoccurring dark theme but he incorporates several other aspects of color and shape to create an interesting entry. I specifically enjoyed his use of current news and photography to get a message out about the lives of different peoples. He also seemed to use different cultures for example on the first page he included a popular american icon, superman while on other pages he used what looked like african designs. For example, I believe page 15 and 16 used this type of design.
ReplyDeleteMaggie Smith
Glancing over journal artist Teesha Moore’s work sends an uplifting vibe to the viewer, while at the same time presenting more than enough to interest the eye. There are words found in every one of her entries which not only serve as something to make the viewer curious and want to look closer but also can add deeper meaning to a work of art especially if the words are very broad or pose an open question. I particularly like the “busyness” of her entries. They typically consist of multiple textures, patterns and both geometric and inorganic shapes. When people are found in an entry, they are sometimes depicted more realistically than the forms surrounding it which make this face, eye, or other human part stand out even more. Throughout her collection lines are more boldly defined in certain works while in others they are soft and blend smoothly together. Teesha Moore never fails to create something interesting. Although in my opinion they all seem very similar, each one has something that makes it stand out from the others whether it be extremely or vaguely noticeable. Overall, her pieces present a happy (the bright colors) yet edgy (the unique people/forms) vibe to the with PLENTY of focal points to draw the viewers eye across the page.
ReplyDeleteTeesha Moore’s journal entries all seem to contain a theme – a large focal point which is re or less centered, contains what appears to be an sort of abstract human face, and words and sentences that become laid out all across the page. The color palette also appears to be consistent with each of the entries provided. Warm, bright colors (such as pink, yellow and orange) are used, and are usually in contrast to the words spread throughout or in contrast to the focal point. Moore also makes use of the shapes applied and to really bring out the round, soft, organic edges of the fiures she usually draws, geometric shapes and lines are put into the background and the background itself will generally be darker in color.
ReplyDelete-Natalie Lynde
Teesha Moore's journal pages immediately caught my attention because of her use of vibrant colors. Many of the pages have a fun, exciting feel to them and it makes the colors make the drawings look very interesting. However, some have a darker, more serious mood. There is somewhat of a common theme throughout the journal. The real life faces make strong focal points against the drawn bodies and backgrounds. I really like the fact that she uses real people's faces with drawn bodies, because it is very original and unexpected. She also uses text in the background of many of the journals. Overall, this journal is very intriguing because of it's bright colors and unique focal points.
ReplyDelete-Morgan O'Brien
I noticed that there is a significant style difference in Dan Eldon and Teesha Moores work. Teesha Moores work is a lot brighter, and uses similar styles that look like clippings out of a news paper, and she uses very bright and vivid colors. Also her style uses more texture, for example there is a picture of a woman in a fur coat which adds a lot of texture . In Eldons work, he uses very dark colors, and his work is very drab.
ReplyDelete-max carrion
Dan Elden's journal, as a whole, has a distinctly dark connotation and portrays a yearning for peace. The pages are all unique, but certain aspects tie them together. First of all, the colors used are generally neutral and dulled down. For the majority of the journal, color isn't the first thing that makes an impact on you, but the sheer amount of things on the page to look at. The combination of blocky shapes with/against more organic shapes makes for an eye-pleasing page. Many of the individual pictures on the page are bold. Every page has an element of messiness that adds to the overall feel of the journal.
ReplyDeleteI liked this journal every much. Each page has a very clear and beautifully expressed message. What really resounded with me was the very human aspect of the journal, dealing with people in more concrete than totally abstract way.
-Rachel Martin
I like Teesha Moore's better because her pages and entries go well together. She has strong focal points and eye-popping colors. The color she includes is mostly bright, but she has a few dark colors to balance the page better. She makes the pages a lot with words as the background which makes the page's focal point i think stand out more. Moore also unifies the pages very well with color and similar shapes. Her entries are very clean and not messy. She makes it very neat with boarders and definite lines.
ReplyDeleteSydney Baranowski
Dan Eldon's journal i happen to like better because he doesn't use a lot of material in it but he still finds a way to make a page stand out. on one of his pages it is all writing but then at the bottom he uses water colors (I think) to make a feather and i have never seen that done before and i found it very unique. th whole journal is tied together because each page sends the same message but you don't realize that until you look through the whole thing and read each page. he uses materials other than paints, markers, water colors, etc. he uses fabrics and common items you would generally find around your house and uses them as a focal point to his page.
ReplyDeleteRachel Kramer
I happen to enjoy looking through Dan Eldon's journal because I found it more interesting and eye grabbing the way he used lines in his artwork. For example, in his second entry, the lines that portrayed people were very abstract. Also the way he organized his collages were very intriguing. An example of this is found him Mr. Eldon's fifteenth entry, the license and photos show a story. Also the focal point is quite obvious making the artwork interesting to look at. Over all I like to look at Dan Eldon's work rather than Teesha Moore's.
ReplyDeleteEvan Gerrard
When looking through the artwork of Teesha more compared to Dan Eldon, I enjoyed Teeshas pieces more. Her work was more colorful and interesting to look at. I liked to see her covers with a lot of warm colors and cool focal points. I liked the one with a black and white face in the center with the colorful warm colored back round. She also used many swirls and other shapes to make the photo more interesting -alyvia bacchi
ReplyDeleteLooking through Teesha Moore’s journal pages, some of the first things that really caught my eyes were the vibrant colors, faces, and use/repetition of words. I found it interesting to read the messages strewn about each individual work of art and enjoyed the contrast between warm and cool colors that made certain objects stand out from others. While each page has its own original idea, there is a unifying theme to them that makes looking at all the pages as a whole just as enjoyable as looking at each page individually. Another interesting characteristic of her journal was the deformation of some of the figures and faces. For example, having one eye bigger than the other made it just that much more fascinating to look at.
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