ArtTalk Portfolio Critique Sheet Describe What do you see?

? Artists Name: Kyle RessDate Created: Fall Title of the work: Tattoo Medium used: Photoshop Analyze How is the work organized? What elements or principles of design are used? Use art vocabulary to analyze the work. Lines: What kind of lines are in the work? Straight, curved, dotted, broken, wavy, jagged, textured, horizontal, vertical diagonal, contour or outlines. Were the lines created by abrupt color, value or texture changes? (2-3 sentences) The tattoo that was photoshopped onto kyles are has good line work and is aligned to kyles arm in a very visually apealing way. Everything is very fluid in this piece of art.

Color and Value Are the colors warm, cool, bright, dull, light, opaque or transparent? Values resulting from combinations of lights and darks, or shades and tints of a color. Shapes (two-dimensional) and forms (three-dimensional), representational, abstract, organic, geometrical, open, closed. Texture Rough, smooth, coarse, soft, bumpy, hairy, shady, etc. Simulated you can see but not feel it or real. (Dont confuse texture with pattern the repetition of some motif in a recognizable order, such as polka dots or a checkerboard. (2-3 sentences) There are not any colors incorperated into this, it is all one color, but it looks good. It is not overdone. The lines in this are very smooth, and the drawing is well done.

Balance: What contributes to balance in the composition? Is the balance symmetrical, asymmetrical or radial? (2 -3 sentences) I cant exactly explain why this is balanced but it is. The dragon is on a good part of his arm and it is scaled to a size where you can tell what it is and it doesnt wrap around the arm too much.

Interpret What message does this artwork communicate to you? Write about the feeling, mood or message of this work. Defend your interpretation with evidence from the description and analysis information above and/or use art history or past experiences. (3-5 sentences) This work makes me think about how badly i want tattoos, but how hard it is to find someone to give good tattoos. Thats irrelevant to this though. This also makes me think about how good the lighting is in this.

Judge What do you think of the work? Write about the success of this work, explain.
(3-5 sentences) I think this is very well done, it sits on the arm in a pleasing mannar and isnt too busy or too hard to keep focused on. Even though the drawing skills arent the best it stilllooks reasonabley good. Like i said, the lines are very smooth. Catherine MacIntosh