Visual Production Final

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Visual Production Final Project Created by Jessica Shetler 1231668 Submitted to Kathryn Kelly November 29th 2013

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Table of Contents Chapter One – Page Three Chapter Two – Page Four Chapter Three – Page Five Chapter Four – Page Six Graphite – Page Eight Fine liner – Page Nine Charcoal – Page Ten Photography – Page Eleven Marker – Page Twelve Pop Art – Page Thirteen

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Chapter One

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In order to prepare for this project, I personally went out and took many different skylines pictures of Montreal to help figure out what my final composition will be. This step was the most important one because I wanted to use a photo that I took and not something off of the Internet.

Using the city as a muse meant that I was more involved in the creative decisions instead of having a strong influence from another piece of art.

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Chapter Two

Materials that were used throughout this process were, a digital camera, sketching paper, a testing sheet, straight edged brushes, and paints.

While doing the testing of shadows, I realized a straight edge brush works better for the buildings in order to create the gradient.

Furthermore, I choose the positioning of my source of light. This was fairly simple due to the photograph I took having the light come from the right hand side at a lower angle (sunset).

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Chapter Three

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Chapter Four Jo hn Held Jr.

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When given the task of creating a watercolor, it was encouraged to find an Artist of inspiration. An Artist whose techniques or subject matter would be used in your piece. I went to Saatchionline.com and to Pinterest to help search. On Pinterest I came across John Held Jr. I automatically fell in love with his Watercolor works. I loved that it was composed of a skyline/city setting, but most of all I loved the use of colors contrasting between light and dark.

John Held was a major and wellknown cartoon illustrator from the 1920’s. This era was the boom in illustrations used for magazines, advertisements…

His subject matter was known for dancing, cheerful illustrations.

His works were during the “Flapper” era, which was the era of the introduction to skirts in women, the hair bob, jazz music, casual sexual relationships. His works were so popular during this era or movement that his pieces are often associated with the time.

Later in the 1950’s he moved away from illustrations and worked on other subjects such as Skylines.

The reason Mr. Held served as such a big inspiration is his use of skylines. Personally I love subject matter composed of the city, however I love the look of not too much detail. His works ignited the inspiration for a Montreal skyline, but also the use of colors. Held’s watercolor works range from yellows, blues, greens, and reds. I knew I wanted mine to be a color representation of Montreal, Illustrating the liveliness of our city, however I didn’t want to use his style of backdrop, I wanted to use a black color that would fade as it rises to a light grey. The reason for this was to create contrast, since in my other works I use

contrast as a tool.

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Graphite – Lace Print

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Fine liner – “Grasp”

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Charcoal – “The Woman”

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Photography – Architecture Montreal

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Marker – Coco Chanel No 5 Perfume Illustration

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