Design Principles GCD60804 Task 3
Task 3 Development & Design
WANGJIHENG(0378904)
Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
3 / 02 / 2025 — / 02 / 2025 (Week 05 — Week 07)
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INSTRUCTIONS
In Task 2, I analyzed Monet’s Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son and proposed three improvement plans.
Next, I will explain how I continued to design the poster for Task 3 based on Task 2.
Now, after integrating Monet's paintings with my photographic works, I choose to present them in my own painting style. At the same time, I imitate the brushstrokes of Monet's paintings while also retaining the style of my own photography.
Continue to finish the painting. I fully outlined the lawn and the lake, and carefully drew the woman's hair in the painting. I decided to remove the railing beside the lake from my photographic work. I thought this would create a sense of being right by the lake, instead of having a sense of distance from the lake due to the railing.
I created the appearance of the woman and the child in this work, and completed this painting design. I named this work 《The Woman by the Lakeside》.
matching principle
In the picture, the Impressionist artistic texture of Monet's "Woman with a Parasol" (soft brushstrokes, dreamy colors) forms a contrast between "artistic fiction" and "realistic scene" with the real lake view I photographed (clear tree shadows, real sunlight rays).
This contrast enhances the visual impact. It not only retains the natural realism of photographic works but also injects the romantic imagination of classic art, echoing the requirement of "cross-work fusion and innovation" in Task 3.
Harmony principle
To make the fusion natural, I adjusted the color balance and transparency of the Monet figure layer to match the lake blue and tree green in the photo, achieving tonal harmony. Reducing the figure's clothing saturation to match the real scene blends classical art into the modern photo, fitting Task 3's "visual unity after fusion" exploration.
Gestalt theory analysis
Continuity principle
The willow tree branches extend top to bottom in the picture, forming a visual guiding line. Monet's figure is at the line's "visual pause point". The audience's sight naturally falls on the figure along the willow tree, achieving visual continuity of picture elements. This fits Gestalt's "element coherence guiding cognition" theory and meets Task 3's "picture visual flow design" requirement.
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Week6
In this creation, I merged my photography with Monet’s *Woman with a Parasol*, removing original figures to integrate classic imagery. Applying design principles, I harmonized classical and realistic tones while enhancing visual tension via light-shadow and style contrasts. Based on Gestalt theory, closure and continuity principles unified the scene naturally. The work achieves a cross-time artistic dialogue, preserving photographic realism while infusing Impressionist romance, exploring creative expression of classic-modern integration.
Week7
In this week, I completed this assignment and made improvements. The teacher said that I couldn't use my own photography to create this poster, so I used painting to finish this design.
REFLECTION
In this creation, I practiced design principles in the integration of classics and reality and deepened my understanding of artistic integration. However, there are still deficiencies: the adaptation between character shadows and scene lighting is not precise enough, and the processing of some color tone fusion details is not delicate enough. In the follow-up, I need to refine the logic of light and shadow more carefully, optimize synthesis details, and improve the naturalness of the picture. Let the interweaving of Monet's artistic elements and photographic scenes be more seamless, and further strengthen the artistic appeal and creative completeness of the work.
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