Adding an Island (and thinking about design)

We enjoyed above normal temperatures last week.  This week reality sets in and the temperatures will return back to normal with a blast of cold air and of course no chance of snow. 

I decided just Janine with Toby in the picture, like the original, did not make for an interesting wallhanging.  Also knowing, a small island was in the distant background didn't hurt either, so.... I decided to try to make an island.

 

 

It took me a while to get started picking out the material thinking about which colors would give the allusion of being in the background.   Thinking about the elements of design, I repeated the colors and shapes in the forest on the island.  I think it keeps the eye moving left to right through the forest.

 

The lighter color I decided not to use for the water became the sky. Studying the island, I realized something was missing, it looked like it was floating.  It wasn't anchored in the composition.

It needed to look like it was reflecting in the water.

 

 We took a tour of the Under Amour headquarters in Locust Point.  This is a picture of their living wall.