This is a picture names Several Circles by Vasily Kandinsky. (https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/1992)
The reason I chose this image is that I like the atmosphere it presents using such simple elements. The whole picture looks like the galaxy, for the dark background represents the outer space and other colorful circles are planets. It gives me a sense of the beauty of darkness for the low saturated color that it used.
The first thing I did after choosing this image is to mimic to create a similar picture. I started by setting the size of the canvas and picking a dark grey as its color.
Then I began to code the circles and tried to copy the locations of those circles on the original motif as much as possible. By using the color selector, I also mimicked the color from the original one. The code that I used are in the same structure because all the figures I used are ellipses. So the first version of my creation is very similar to the motif.
Later, I tried to make some changes to my creation. So I changed some codes and turned part of the circles into rectangles and triangles so they differ from the motif. However, they still stayed the same color. When coding for triangles, I did some calculations for the coordinate of each point of a triangle.
I think drawing in Processing is a good practice for my future design. It forces me to pay more attention to figures’ coordinates and their color, which is very helpful. Using such a technology to create art is also very interesting and novel because it makes our design more convenient and more diverse.