Marbles

I am always delighted by the different array of colors that are exposed within a small glass ball. The colors are always in swerves or waves connecting from one point to the other. Marbles are delicate and fragile and are always noticed, especially under a table of light.

Teddy Bear!!!

Teddy Bears are classic and this illustration is as well. It gives the bear character by making it seem well worn, as if dragged from car to house to playground and back again. With reconstructive stitch marks it creates a nostalgic feeling for the viewer.

i like this image because of the color usage to the images and it look almost realistic :). the shadowing is also a good touch to give you depth and a shape of the image. good use of shadowing and color to indicate the image of the transformer

Lego People

The positioning of the Lego people is really working because it makes them seem three-dimensional. I like the way he has placed them with direction from one another, giving each piece a sense of movement. He has a good use of contrast, the colors chosen really make the legos pop out from the background color.

Erector Set!

The Erector Set hits a very nostalgic note with me so it was an easy choice among the available options on the Strong Museum site. The image of the instruction booklet to the left has great composition. I love how the jet zooming to the right really leads your eye across the picture plane and directs you to the city in the background. I also love the play on scale between the robot and the human forms.

Vintage Travel Poster

1930s Harz Germany Jupp Wiertz German Travel Poster

PRINTED BY: Printed in Germany
Printer: Herausgber Landesverkehrsverband HARZ e V Braunichmeig
AGE: circa 1930s
ARTIST: Jupp Wiertz
CONDITION: B+, Linen Mounted, very minor pressed wrinkles, small scuffs, barely noticed unless closely scrutinized. A great poster, displays beautifully!
Note: Jupp Wiertz, the well known (German, 1888-1939) illustrator and designer of this poster. He was most known for his Art Deco Zeppelin poster and other deco works. Wonderful graphic design, ready for framing.

This poster is from VintagePosterWorks.com a store owned by Deborah Clifford located
in the Hudson Valley in Ghent, New York.


I chose this vintage poster for its contrasting cool snow enveloped tree and (cold) hard edged German font against the warm fading orange background.

Denabi State Park, Alaska

The mountains and lake on this poster are well balanced and the lighting is beautiful. Although this is done in landscape view I can easily imagine it cropped to fit the requirements of our project. The colors shown here are not flat colors but would be easy to convert. The tonal values of this poster could be changed to spots of purples and pinks. Altogether this poster is very pleasing to the eye and gives a little warmer feeling than many Alaskan photos do. It is an wonderful view to invite travel in America.