Lines are EVERYWHERE!

The following five photos are proof that lines exist all over our world, whether we acknowledge them or not. This is only a tiny glimpse of the lines in my community. Check out the lines in your home town!

In this photo, the lines that make up the outer shell of this air conditioning unit are very clear.

 This photo shows the repeating lines of parking spaces between apartment complexes.

 

This brand new West Village Parking garage has obvious lines that not only add detail to the structure but support between each floor and around the windows.

Grout lines of a brick building show lines along with the natural coloration of the bricks themselves. 

This is my favorite of all five photos because it was the least obvious yet seemed to be right in front of my face. This town is built and dependent upon lines for its structure and height. The red bars or lines are more prominent than the white lines but together they form a powerful tower.

10 Sketches

The above sketches were created for a line design project. According to Webster's dictionary, a line is a narrow mark that can have infinite length. All of these sketches were designed using Adobe Photoshop Elements 9. They all have their own uniqueness and emphasize different principles of design.

Music in Lines

How does music move you? Here is photo of how music moves me. Take note of the dominance and focal point of the bolder lines, the texture of the dense population of short lines, the space and shape of the lines, and movement of the slopes. This song was a rather sad song, depicted by the slow and stead decline of the lines.

The following four photos are all examples of good composition. The seven principles of design are balance, variety, repetition, dominance, proportion, movement and unity. The four that I have chosen to showcase are balance, repetition, dominance and movement.

First, this a great example of the dominance principal. By everyday definition, dominance means to be in charge or take power. In the world of art, the dominance principle would be a piece of art with one large or "powerful" object/figure that takes up the majority of the available space. Here, the leaf draws your focus and most of the available space.

This is a great picture that demonstrates balance. More specifically this photograph shows asymmetrical balance because the weight of the tree branches are "equal" on both the left and right side.

Above, is a piece of art that demonstrates movement. The wooded path draws your eye around the "bend" because of the consistent colors and lines of the path.

This last photo demonstrates repetition. Although repetition can be portrayed with a repeating, line and color, this photo has a repeating shape, the leaves.