Alternative Media Diptych

 

Alternative Media Diptych
Final Project

 

Medium: Acrylic on two 8x10" canvas', industrial glued in an open frame. | This was my final project for my Alternative Media class in my Fall 2012 semester at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. The requirements were to make a diptych that flowed into each other, or continued on to the next panel. For my project, I decided to work on opposing landscapes, being a winding road. On the left is a rural, country road, seldom traveled on and in a big open landscape on a bright sunny day, where it continues on to the next panel as the polar opposite: a winding paved road at night leading to a city. I made sure to connect not only the road in this diptych, but also to connect the horizon line to give it a good connection. I also made sure to use deep colors to not only give it the opposite effect of night-time versus day time, but to also give the work a good overall contrasting balance of light and dark colors, day and night, rural and urban, clouds and clear sky, unpaved and paved roads, and distant land versus distant buildings. I framed the work not only to give it a professional look, but to make it feel like an actual panel diptych experience.