Two Color Compositions

For this assignment my sketching wasn't so much a template for final composition, but more of an experiment. I wanted to see how a could play with background and foreground and see how it would come out. I wasn't really impressed or inspired by any of them.

This was my first attempt at creating a two color composition. I wanted to make the brown mountain shape look like it was falling down. I started on the right with organized pieces and proceeded to the left with more fragmented and random pieces. I wanted the green in the background to create a downward motion that instigates the feeling of falling.

I do not think either of my missions were successful. It doesn't have to be a two color composition at all. And that was the assignment: Make a two color composition. If it was all one color the viewer wouldnt feel any different or get any less out of it. But, of course, I didnt realize this until after I had finished all the compositions.

My "make it look like falling" mission was also unsuccessful. When I look at this composition my eyes sweep from the left to the right, so instead of looking like falling-down, the composition looks like building-up.

The second attempt.

For the second composition I stayed on my falling-down mission. I fliped the "mountain" so the eye can go on it's natural path: left to right. I used the vertical lines to try to create a downward motion.

Again the use of two colors was not nessesary. I do think that my crumbling mission was acheived, but the vertical lines could be taken out. They are a bit distracting.

This is my favorite way to work. I love to make flat designs. Is that ok? Designs should be simple, but that doesn't mean they have to be flat. Can they be flat?

My third attempt.

The second color was the most necesary in this composition. It makes a nice horizon line. This composition is boring, in my opinion. It works as a design, but it's nothing special.