Our secomd assignment required us to use only secondary colors. One of my original ideas regarding the second assignment of asymmetrical balance involved a political comment but i decided against this given the wide range of sensitivities even in a creative and academic context.
Looking for alternatives, I could perhaps capture asymmetry in a piece with one large item balanced with a few smaller items, a shark and some small fish for example? That seems tried and tested but probably over-done. Have a couple of connected items which were inherently asymmetrical, an oak tree and an acorn?, a penny-farthing bicycle?, an eye and a tear? The sun and the planets? And returning to the political asymmetry a Canadian flag and a First Nations symbol. Jotting down the circle of the medicine wheel brought me to the idea of yin and yang.
The question was where to make the asymmetry? perhaps just in the size of the circle of the two parts? In the end I made the asymmetry by having the yin and the yang themselves different sizes, and their colors reversed – which is what I did.
Here I have played around with rotating the original and then I have created the same image as a vector image and changed the colors. All in all I still like the original color version and orientation (top and bottom left) best. During critique Elizabeth suggested adding some white which I am going to try next.
I don’t like it, but perhaps I should not have persisted with the yin-yang theme and used a more subtle white highlight somewhere else and definitely collaged the white on rather than trying to overpaint the orange – but I had asked about how to correct a light color over a darker color when we looked at Tor’s secondary piece last week and thought I should give it a try – but I probably should have painted one white layer, then another rather than trying to cover in one shot.?