Findings While Browsing Art

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It took me some time to get familiar with Soundation.com tools and sounds choices.  It was a project that I developed it on the go, without much planning. It was by trying different sounds that I was able to create a soundtrack to match an imagined scenery.  While creating the music, I was transported to a wide and open space such as a prairie, a park or a South American or African landscape, where I could hear different drums and other instruments played at a distance communicating to each other. I felt like I was jogging or running in the open space where I could notice my heart beats and the rhythm of my breath due to the physical exertion.  In the year 2020 and 2021 we have learned the health significance of the importance to breath in (inhale) and breath out (exhale) that we often take for it for granted!  The use of face mask makes us more conscious and aware of our breathing.  The above pictures are the beginning and the end of the project!

  It takes much thinking to develop a tagline that would allow the message to be understood or supported by the viewer. A message to intellectually and emotionally engage the viewer, so he/she can take a personal perspective through ideas or actions about an issue. It is the viewer's individual response/reaction that the artist is wishing to accomplish by his/her creation. My aim was to create a tagline to engage the viewer's  personal responsibility with the climate change issue.  A screen shot of two taglines choices that were constructed as a personal question are shown. I felt that the taglines were too long, reason why I stayed with the same tagline that the google search raster image provided.  This exercise was important because it helped me practice with the available "Adobe Illustrator" tools regarding taglines. 

Above you will find the Google search image that I have chosen to develop a vector image using "Adobe  Illustrator." I chose this raster photograph because of its simple and important message regarding climate concerns that are impacting our human existence in our planet: Earth. It is a  clear and straight forward message that is directed to all nations on Earth whose leaders and most citizens are too concern of their personal wealth and well being without asking the question: Am I doing enough to prevent climate change? It is the first time that I have used "Adobe Illustrator" to create vector images.  I used the curvature tool pen to shape the forms of the half-globe. The globe's stroke (contour line) color and width were modified from its original raster image.  I left the canvas' background in its original's color: white. The upper rectangle, where the title is located, was filled with the "super soft black vignette" choice, as a highlight,

I created the image using Adobe Illustrator based on an image from Google search. It is our global geopolitical concern to learn the causes and effects of Climate Change... The Causes of Climate Change: Industrialization, Deforestation, Resource Extraction, Energy Use, Transportation, Pollution, Consumerism... The Effects of Climate Change: Rising Temperatures, Rising Sea Levels, Unpredictable Weather Pattern, Land Degradation, Loss of Wildlife and Biodiversity... How Climate Change Impacts Human Beings?  Displaced People, Loss of Livelihood, Global Food and Water Shortage, Malnutrition, Increased Risk for Diseases... We Need to Take Action as Citizens of the World Now! 

 

To create the Infographic, I used the application Piktochart starting from a blank canvas. I chose the background's color and opacity. Also the font size, style and the option to bold it. Comparing to the previous Infographic, I used more images and less text.   

Through Piktochart, I created an infographic comparison between two Oscar Claude Monet's paintings that are in the Toledo Museum of Art's collection. Piktochart is a web-based application that provides templates to design infographics and other visuals. Infographics, by its way to arrange and display data (text) and graphics could be used as a learning tool. It is easy to use, but one needs to take some time to familiarize oneself with the application's dashboard's tools. It provides different types of templates that can be applied according to the topic that one plans to develop. I started with a blank canvas and after organizing the text, I decided on the background's texture and color. Then, I decided on the text's font's type, size and color. Being the topic a comparison between two similar objects, I decided to organize the data in two rows. Each row was written in different colors and some data was bolded, as a way of highlighting the similarities and