Art & Music - Module 3: Creating Colorful Patterns (Fall 2024)

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"Creating Art & Music" is an introductory course designed to introduce creative activities in the context of art and music. Thus far the course has been taught at the middle school, high school, community college, and university level (with appropriate adaptations for each level). Each week this fall, students in the course are posting their projects in this strand of the Snap! forum. Here's a link to the course materials:

Art, Animations & Music

This week's module is titled "Creating Colorful Patterns". In it, we will continue to explore the works of American abstract impressionist painters, focusing specifically on Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.

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Figure 1:
Jackson Pollock working on his painting "One" while Lee Krasner watches

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Figure 2:
"One", by Jackson Pollock. On Display at the National Gallery of Art - East Wing

The style of painting developed by this pair, dubbed "action painting" or "all-over painting" challenged the idea of what constitutes art by focusing more on the process of creating art than on the physical product itself. Below are two links to help you better understand the works of this revolutionary duo.

New Orleans Museum of Art (8 min)

The Westport Library (65 min)

The assignment for this week is to create a work of art inspired by the paintings these two artists. The program that you write should use constrained randomness to determine color palettes, sprite motion, pen size, and/or other elements of the code used to create the final product.

Save your program to the cloud, share it so that others will be able to access it, and then post the link as a reply in this strand.

Please provide contextual information for your project, letting us know whether you are replicating an existing painting or choosing to create an original work. If you are creating an original work, please let us know if any particular artists or works of arts have inspired your creation.

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In this project, my goal was to create a piece of art inspired by Jackson Pollock's "drip" painting style. I developed a custom color palette focusing on contrasting hues, blending soft purples and blues for the background with bold blacks and bright whites in the foreground. Using randomized motion for the beige gradient colored curved lines and carefully placed black droplet shapes, I aimed to replicate the energy and flow characteristic of Pollock’s abstract work. The scattered white dots add further dynamism, reminiscent of paint splatters.

Here is the link to my project: Snap! Build Your Own Blocks

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This project I created an original work that is loosely inspired by Jackson Pollock's paintings. My color palette comes from random selection from a list of a range of random values. I start with drawing a dot and then drawing 10 dots in succession very close near the original dot with a slight turn. I wanted to try to capture the movement of the paint splatters and drips in Pollock's works.

Link: Snap! Build Your Own Blocks

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https://snap.berkeley.edu/snap/snap.html#present:Username=tristar10&ProjectName=random
Here's my project. I tried to do original as possible. Only possible reference is probably the album from https://open.spotify.com/album/78Xeo0oqPIkVIPX5tEMVkB?si=Lgts_HxKRtexqo-kPQKl5w

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This week, I created a program inspired by Pollock mainly inspired by his seemingly random strokes. One aspect uses the "glide" block to mimic smooth paint strokes. The other uses the "move" block to mimic smaller paint splatters. Here is the link: Week 4 Assignment - Spencer Lewis

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I really like the use of the transparency pen attribute in these projects!

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Here is the link to my project: Pollock. In this piece I used arcs of random degrees, lengths, and shades of light blue on a dark blue background to attempt to simulate Jackson Pollock's painting style. I also tried to replicate Pollock's style with the use of smaller yellow lines and white dots that look more like splatters across the canvas.

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My project used the concept of randomness to create two different layers of my project. The first layer involved random dots and lines that varied in size and colors that stick to a general blue/green color scheme. The next layer involved only a few "blotches" of random color in the pink/purple color scheme. These splotches were formed from creating dots of smaller and smaller size. I was inspired by the randomness in shape, pattern, and location of all of the different aspects of Pollock's paintings to create this project. Here is the link to my project: Pollock

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Here is my Colorful Pattern project. I wanted to replicate the idea of paint dripping onto a canvas, so I animated a droplet of paint falling onto the screen and leaving a dot of paint. The project loops infinitely, continuously dropping paint onto the screen. For the color palette, I was inspired by 90s arcade floors with their dark backgrounds and neon colors.

Update: I cleaned up some of the code to fix some lagging effect when the droplets fell. I also took the suggestion of one of the replies and slightly varied the fall times for the droplets.

Project Link: Colorful Pattern

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This is my colorful pattern project inspired by Pollock's paintings. I just tried to randomize the size, color, and transparency of the pen to try to imitate the action painting style. I want to try to change the pen to create longer marks to imitate the splattering of the paint in the future.
Link

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Here is my pollock project. I was inspired by Pollock's "I am nature" saying that we talked about in class, so I created green strokes that mimic the grass and added pink dots as flowers.

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I really like the gravity and how its used here :D

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In this project, my goal is to design and create somethings that's inspired by Pollock. For the shapes and colors, I was inspired by banana split ice creams and all of the ingredients in them. https://snap.berkeley.edu/project?username=zdb3qg&projectname=Pollock%20--%20Assignment%204

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you forgot to share I think :\

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I attempted to create a piece of art inspired by Pollock's splatter painting. I decided to use random colors, brush sizes, and length of splatters to show a natural looking randomness that would come with a splatter painting. I did however choose to use brighter colors than Pollock was known for. Here is my project: Pollock

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For my project, I wanted to recreate the unique paint strokes and randomness of Pollock's paintings. I made randomized squiggly lines through the back and forth movement of the arc rad degree block and also used 'curves' made up of dots that increased in size with every degree turn. I hope to clean up my code and maybe play around more with the curves.

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I really liked how you have three layers to your project. I think the more uniform background mixed with the random lines and dots looks really good. I also like how you made the lines have an arc and made them different widths. I like how you made something original but still used the ideas of constrained randomness in your project. Good job!

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I really liked the randomized sizes and transparency of the pen dots it really reminds me of splattered paint and I feel like it could look cool to have multiple layers of pen strokes with different lengths of marks

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I love the curve of the dots while it increases in size, it creates a cool teardrop-looking shape. I wonder how it would look if you used this code to create a variety of shapes!

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Hey! I really enjoyed the vibrant colors and patterns in your project. The contrast between the dark blue background and the light blue and yellow lines is striking and gives the artwork a sense of depth, almost like looking at an abstract night sky or energy waves. The overlapping arcs, lines, and dots create a dynamic feel that keeps the viewer engaged. Looking at your code, it’s clear that you've structured it well and used simple blocks to create a visually complex design.