Carime Rachelle

2009-04-20T10:33:00.000-07:00

Right now I am in the process of creating my Flash animation project. Although I first had trouble trying to figure out the Flash program, having never used it before, I feel I am finally starting to get the hang of it. My goal is to create an animation that is simple, with a simple storyline. I have used simple lines and shape to create my animation. So far I have laid out all of the scenes, and am almost finished creating them. I still have some small changes to make, and I still need to incorporate sound. Overall, though, I feel like it is going very well, and I am liking what I have done so far.

Animation

2009-03-23T14:03:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite animations, or favorite animated film, is Finding Nemo. The thing I appreciate the most about this animation is how realistically the animation and images are portrayed. The story primarily takes place underwater, and the artist has created so much movement and color into every detail. The story is that Nemo (a fish) gets taken away by humans, and then Marlin (Nemo's father) with the help of a friend travel a great distance to find Nemo. I feel like the artist of this film creates various sequences that help to illustrate this journey, and each sequence becomes more and more dramatic, until the climax, in which they find Nemo. By various techniques in animation, the artist builds up to the climax by incorporating movement, sound, which in turn creates a highly affective story line and overall beautiful piece.

Continuing with the Web Art Project

2009-03-09T14:09:00.000-07:00

purple

orange
green
I am feeling more and more satisfied with the way things are going with the web art project. I am finally at the point where I am linking the different pages I have created together. Again, this project is about color and how color can portray a different mood or emotion. It is my goal that, when people look at the various images to this project, that they will question what mood or emotion a color can portray. Each page that I have will flash back and forth between two different opposing colors, with the intent of creating a different tone. Although this is a personal piece, and I have incorporated my personal opinions, it is wide open for interpretation. Here are more examples of the pages I am putting into this piece (above).

The Web Art Project

2009-03-04T14:16:00.000-08:00

red page
blue page
yellow page
Currently we are working on our web art projects. My idea is that I wanted to create a piece based on color. Basically, it is a study of how color can portray different moods. Most of my images are being created on Photoshop. I am using the main colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple...and each color has its own page. I know that different colors mean different things to different people, but this is more about what each of these colors means to me. Here are some examples of what I have so far (above).

Online Web Art

2009-02-20T14:20:00.000-08:00

As I was searching online for some web art examples, I came across this website that has very intresting screen savers and web art pieces created by Ezra Johnson. The one I looked at in particular is called "Wrestling with the Blob Beast". Although this piece is simple, I greatly appreciated it for its abstraction, color, and playfullness. If you do not wish to go to the link, I can explain what occurs in this work. The opening scene is a wall, and a monster or creature of some sort sneaks onto the screen from the bottom crack of the wall, and then two hands appear tht begin 'wrestling' with the creature, and then it slips back underneath the wall. The monster is created with a bunch of abstract, colorful, biomorphic shapes, and there is lot of movement to this piece. Below is the link to this web art piece in particular as well as others:
http://www.diacenter.org/johnson/screensavers.html

Web Art

2009-02-16T13:36:00.000-08:00

Right now, I feel like I do not know a whole lot about web art. However, I think web art is something that people take advantage of, due to the fact that people use the internet everyday, and do not realize that web art is incorporated. Web art is so important because it is a form of communication, and is a way to entice and attract people to a certain company, product, etc. Like state before, I do not have much knowledge on this subject, but as I was looking online, I came across some websites to better help me understand what web art is, and what it entails:

http://www.mowa.org/

http://www.prowebart.net/

Inspiration for Self-Portrait

2009-02-09T18:42:00.000-08:00

It took me awhile to think of ideas for the Self-Portrait assignment, but I think I have finally come up with an idea. I would somehow like to represent the past and the present, which in turn would be showing split personalities. I just recently went through some tough times in the past, and I would like to represent coming out of darkness and going into light; going through a bad time, and coming into the light/future. One side of the portrait will represent darkness, and I will do this by showing darker, colder images. The other side will represent happiness, lightness, and hopefullness, which is a portrayal of a hopeful future. I will incorporate personal images that give me hope, and make me feel better in hard times.

Analyizing an Abstract Painting

2009-02-03T09:13:00.000-08:00

This abstract painting is by Kandinsky, and it is called Fugue, and was painted in 1914. I was drawn to this painting, first of all, because of its vivid colors. I generally love rich blues, and this painting has a lot of that rich blue color in it, therefore my eye was drawn to it. He uses a lot of various lines and shapes, and I greatly appreciate the richness of the textures. The organic lines and bright colors, I think, gives this painting a happy and exciting tone. This painting reminds me of a fantasy landscape. The combination of dark and light colors gives it a sort of whimsical feel. What also caught my eye was the object in the middle with the white slashes. Although this painting is abstract, that object to me looks like a ship, and it is sailing in a colorful sea. I also consider the title of the painting, which is Fugue. A fugue is a type of song that is sung in a round, and it gradually builds upon itself. For example, the song 'Row Row Your Boat' is a fugue. So therefore, considering that I see a ship or a boat in the middle of this painting, I immediately thought of that song, and also related it to the title of the painting.

Inspiration for Project 1

2009-01-21T20:46:00.001-08:00

I have always been interested in and intrigued by the idea of dreams. Always having very vivid dreams myself, I have always wanted to try to re-create my dreams through art. Therefore, I greatly admire those artists who are able to accomplish this task by creating dream-like paintings, drawings, or other forms of art. Surrealists, for example, studied the Freudian Psychology and theories of dreams, and attempted to create "hand-painted" dreams. Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte both attempted to create 'magic realism', in which they incorporated realistic images into a dream-like setting. They also juxtaposed two or more completely random images that had nothing to do with one another by putting them in a composition together, thus creating a relationship between the images. For this project, I would like to play off of this idea; juxtapose random images to create a dream-like composition, the goal being to re-create a dream that I may have had in the past.

The image above and the image below are by Magritte:

The images below are both by Salvador Dali:

The last couple of images are two dream photomontages that I randomly came across. The artists are unknown, but I greatly appreciate the dream-like qualities of both of these works:

Entry One: About Me

2009-01-12T14:32:00.000-08:00

Greetings! My name is Carime "Cari" Yoder. I am currently a junior at Indiana University, Bloomington, and majoring in Art Education.

I decided to pursue a career in art education because I have a great passion for art and art history, as well as a passion for young people. It is my great desire to inspire and motivate children to create and to learn about art, as well as to play a part in shaping their future.

In the field of art I am greatly inspired and I admire works by my favorite artists Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Salvador Dali, and Diane Arbus. I am also captivated by the country of Italy; one of the greatest art capitols of the world. I have had the opportunity of travelling to Italy, and am hoping to return there to study for a summer semester. When creating art, my favorite medium to work with is drawing, painting, and I am also interested in photography.

Aside from visual art, I am greately interested in theater and performing arts. While I am not a performing artist myself, attending theatrical events is one of my greatest hobbies.

I am greatly passionate about music, and enjoy a wide variety of genres including musicals and soundtracks, country, classic rock, soft rock, classical, and music from around the world.

The most important things in my life are my family and friends, and I greatly enjoy spending time with them in my spare time. I am highly interested in and enjoy athletics, particularly cometitive swimming, as I was a competitive swimmer for 10 years of my life. Also in my spare time I enjoy reading, watching movies, shopping, and exercising.