Grayscale

Problem Statement: Cut out type from a magazines as 3/4" squares. No pictures or color in square and create a 7 step gray scale from white to black where ea. edge of ea. square must be the same value. With the 3/4" x 3/4" squares you will also make a type composition with big letters/medium/small and gray scales.

My Process: Collected a variety of styles of magazines. I flipped through pages and collected large sized areas of interesting black and white text or all styles until I had a big pile of a lot of choices. I then went back through that pile and cropped out 3/4" x 3/4" squares of text and had many to play with to create the grayscale. In art I feel like I am pretty good at seeing the gray scale so this task was fun for me. I feel like it was a fun abstract task to create a clear scale from white to black. I looked for connecting weights and lines in the negative spaces to put them in an order. I really feel like my resulting gray scales create movement and the have a 3 dimensional bend when you look at it from further away. Here are my top 2 of each