Everything that
Tate Medina
is:
The Art Work:
What all I have done:
How much I have improved:
From ameture paintings done on cardboard:
To full scale murals on classroom whiteboards:
Even on the side of a truck!
It’s been 2 months since my first piece of art, and after learning the history of street art, where it comes from, and especially what it offers, like the opportunity for delinquent children to turn their “Graffiti,” into “Art.” All the techniques and proportionalities (math), even inspiring research of an important science; color psychology, that encourages certain moods to become present because of certain colors and mixes of colors that we see.
What I want to accomplish using this skill:
-Selling pieces on various surfaces
-Making long boards with custom painted decks, eventually selling those
What all I learned:
After days of research and implementing math and techniques into my artwork I looked back to see what I could accurately document. Proportions in my art were fairly common and quite interesting, as well as a grid system (that I used on the “Mosaic Board”). There’s a surprisingly deep history to spray paint art. The most interesting purposes that this type of art served were, getting delinquents off of the streets to do giant murals on entire building walls! Instead of tagging every bit of concrete, the encouragement that came from this was what actually started the uprise in popularity of people doing spray paint pieces on either buildings or tunnels or even paper. My grid system helped me place separate images and scenes very accurately so one side of the “Big M” or lengths and heights of mountain and water structures were not higher or more “lopsided/Asymmetrical” than others. Proportions were math driven, but it had much more to do with psychology than anything else. Some things that become TOO big or indifferent both take attention from each other but also the entire painting itself. If the proportions of lettering or accessories are too big, small, or shifted, the painting can get hard to look at and become displeasing to the eye. Color psychology was VERY important as well. The mosaic colors are black red and yellow. These colors; especially combined, induce anger unsettledness or even depression in some cases if found too present. So to “soften the mood” I added blues and whites, blue induces security and but white with it triggers anti-anxiety effects. The other thing I did was grade the colors, meaning I went from dark to light color to color in a “rainbow” sort of fashion. The actual psychology in this is, it’s proven to actually remind people of rainbows, regardless of the colors used. Rainbows are proven to trigger happiness, satisfaction, and more often than not, fond memories or pleasant day dreams. You could look at that board for a while and (statistically) you (along with the majority of others) would feel or experience these effects.*
*Research shows this happens in person, because computer screens can only emit certain colors that you might you might not “Truly experience” because you might be seeing a fake of that color.
(anything other than blue, red, and green) so if you don’t feel it through a picture on a electronic device try seeing it in person! :)