Piero+Franco

Hi!
 * Name:** Piero Franco
 * Year and Major:** Senior majoring in Business Administration
 * Experience with Computers/Software**: Skills using Microsoft Word, Power Point and Excel; some experience with WordPress; and a little experience with Adobe Flash Player and Dreamweaver.
 * Experience with Art:** Charcoal drawing (landscapes, animals) and oil painting. I don't design much though.
 * Something Interesting**: I'm originally from Perú. Moved to the United States 3 years ago and tranferred to UMW from NOVA last year. I am a member of LSA (Latin Student Association) and Breakers Club.
 * Artistic Interest:** I've lately become interested in designing clothes. I also want to learn how to draw faces.

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This painting by Paul Ryan is called “Basking”, and the technique used is oil and acrylic on canvas. This piece caught my attention because of the contrast that it transmits. It uses an analogus color scheme (yellow, yellow-green and green), which helps to create harmony overall in the painting. What makes it interesting is the contrast that this produces. One con of the analogus color scheme is that it “lacks color contrast” in comparison with other color schemes, such as triadic or complementary. However, in this particular piece, the good usage of the hue yellow, which is the dominant one and different green values works well for the analogus color scheme. Besides the analogus color scheme, this painting also uses some gestalt principles, such as continuation and figure ground. The colors make it easy to see the figure ground in this piece. Since yellow is a warm color it pops out making it look like it is in the front, while the green is pushed back for being a cold color. Because of this, different figures are clearly separated from their background. For example, the yellow figure on the left may be an elephant; the small green colors inside the yellow work as an eye and ear. Contrasting also makes continuation easy to be found. For instance, the two vertical short lines almost in the middle of the piece opposite to each other work as a continuation. Our eyes are able to make the connection because the ones on the top terminate at the border but then continue at the bottom.

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 * __Monochromatic__**



//The background would be an example of blue monochromatic//

__**Analogus:**__

//The balloons would be an analogus example//

//The blue and violet lines make of this shirt an analogus example//

__**Complimentary:**__

//Red and green are complimentary//

//The color of the flag and the background are complimentary. Blue + yellow//


 * __Split Complimentary:__**

//The color blue and the two colors on either side of its compliment (orange and yellow) are split complimentary//

// The color green of this book and the fuchsia and orange are split complementary //

=**__Gestalt Principles:__**=


 * __Closure:__** Yellow part is an example of Closure




 * Proximity:** The different frames are an example of proximity



__Similarity;__ Example of similarity



__**Figure** **Ground**:__ This window would be an example of Figure Ground



__**Continuation:**__ This is an example of continuation