Blog Assignment #5

1. I feel my most accomplished goal for this quarter in this class would be my final. I really investigated my big idea of desire. I took a lot of consideration into what I thought of when I thought of desire and what desire meant to me. I spent a lot of time making my project and I am really proud of my final artworks. I think I successfully got across the idea of desires of the past and present, and I hope others were able to see that as well. I think it was very meaningful towards my big idea and a great representation of desire and passion.

Present

Past

2. A project in this class that I found most difficult would be Quiz 4. This was the quiz where we had to modify a movie poster. I think that it ended up turning out really well, but I definitely had some troubles with the quiz. I chose the movie poster from the movie Pineapple Express and chose a picture of Sarah Jessica Parker from her movie poster, Sex and The City. Cutting out and resizing the image of Sarah was so difficult. I used many different selection and erasing tools to finally get it right. I also had a really hard time with replacing Seth Rogan with Sarah Jessica Parker, because he was a lot bigger than her. So, I had to clone stamp parts of the two characters behind him. It didn't look good with the clone stamp, so I decided to just make a copy of one half of the character's body, and then I mirrored the image to the other side to complete the rest of the body. I did this for both characters on either side of her. Mirroring the images ended up working out pretty well, and I was able to use a clone stamp to make some small adjustments. I cannot say that I mastered using the clone stamp, because it's a difficult tool to use. But, I have gotten better with the clone stamp than I was when I was doing this quiz.

3. Two projects that I want to compare to one another are my midterm and my final. I am very proud of both my midterm and my final. The big idea for my midterm was light vs. darkness. I had a hard time with this idea, because I didn't really understand what it meant. i wen with the idea of colors vs not colorful, and opposites. I used to pictures of trees, and while I really like my midterm, I feel like I probably could have done something better. I really just concentrated on the idea of making it look good. So, my midterm looked pretty, but it didn't really have any meaning. When we were given the opportunity to change our big idea, I really wanted to take advantage of this. I chose the big idea of desire. I felt it was a very deep idea and I was given inspiration from an artist I previously researched. I wanted my project to really mean something, so I took a while to come up with symbols of desire and what desire meant to me and other people. I represented desire of both the past and present, to show that desire for others and happiness has always existed. I think that my final has a lot of meaning behind it and I believe I was able to make it look really pretty at the same time. 

Midterm

Final Part 1

Final Part 2

Blog Assignment #4

*For my final, my big idea is desire. I am trying to find the deep meanings of the word desire and incorporate them into my project. I am taking every different meaning of desire into account. I want love and longingness to be incorporated into my project, along with different symbols of desire. What I've come up with so far is that I want my project to focus on the color red. I am incorporating a love quote, lips, flowers, and I still have more images to find for my project. I want it to be abstract, but at the same time, still get across the point I want to portray. All the images will work together to create one huge symbol of desire. I want people to look at my project and experience strong emotions while looking at it, such as love and maybe confusion. I want my final to be interpreted differently by different people based on what kind of person they are. If it is someone that believes in love, I hope that they will feel desired, passion and happiness when they look at my project.

*My big idea is desire and my references include the artwork of Zoren Gold and Minori Murakami, the time era of the 1920s, and Ancient Greek Culture. Zoren Gold and Minori Murakami are two artists who I have done previous research on. They both have a lot of passion in their artwork and I pretty much formed my big idea of desire around their artwork. Everything they do is so beautiful and has so much meaning in it. They want to capture fashion in such an abstract and beautiful way, and it is very inspiring. All of their models and their artwork shows a lot of passion and desire. On this website, you can view many examples of their artwork. Gold/Murakami The 1920s were a very inspiring time era for my project. While alcohol was illegal during this time, it just made desire for one another even stronger. The clothes and beauty of the women of this time are good examples of what I am trying to portray in my project. Lastly, the Ancient Greek Culture has inspired me with the idea of their Gods. The famous Aphrodite was the Greek Goddess of Love, Beauty, and Sexuality. All of these are things in which I am trying to incorporate in my project. In this link, I found many pictures of Aphrodite and her story. Aphrodite

These are both examples of girls from the 1920s that inspired my final project.

*A Photoshop technique that I hope to incorporate in my final project is the Realistic Water Reflection. I don't know if I have anything to use it on yet, but I've been wanting to use this technique all quarter, so hopefully I can find something to incorporate it with. This is a link to the tutorial. Water Reflection

Blog Assignment #3

Today, I chose two different artists that seemed to inspire me for my final project.

My first artist is actually a twosome, Zoren Gold and Minori Murakami. Gold is a photographer and Murakami is a graphic designer. Together they create some of the must beautiful and artistic photos I have ever seen. Almost all of their art deals with high fashion. The artwork is so abstract and beautiful and unlike anything I've ever seen. I think their big idea in most of their artwork is desire and abstract/intense thought. Their artwork is so inspiring to me, because it seems that they absolutely love what they do, they love creating beautiful images involving fashion. All the models in their photos are all very beautiful and in an interview I read of them, they seem so confident and inspired. Zoren and Minori definitely inspire my ideas for my final project. Their photos flow so well and the colors and design of pretty much every piece is beautiful. One of the big ideas I was thinking of using in my final project was abstractness, and their images are very abstract. Their artwork comes across as being very spontaneous and they just go for it, and that's a good state of mind to have while working on my final project.

Here are some examples of their artwork

Website with their images

Interview with Gold and Murakami

The next artist I would like to talk about is Kenny B Harris. He is a designer and illustrator. He creates many things, such as advertisements, graphics, clothing, album art, and claims to currently be working on a video. All of his art is so interesting. Some of his artwork is very dark, but it still has meaning. He is very talented, and you can tell that by just looking through some of his images. He seems to have an eye for art. I would say that in his graphics, his big idea is probably darkness. In his advertisements his idea would probably be sharpness and being able to get a certain point across. He has a link on his website that can take you to all of his inspirations and there is just a list of different artists that he is inspired by, and that's pretty amazing. This artist will definitely inspire me if I continue to elaborate on the idea of light vs darkness. A lot of his artwork is very soft, but at the same time, it is dark and that's something I would like to do in my final. This artist will absolutely help me with my final project.

Some of Kenny Harris' artwork

Artists he's inspired by 

The Art of Kenny B. Harris website

Blog Assignment #2

For this Blog Assignment, I used the Fake Infrared Tutorial on the website www.worth1000.com.

This is a link to the tutorial I used  ->  Fake Infrared Tutorial

1. This is a snapshot of my original image. I took this photo at Old Mans Cave in Hocking Hills this past Spring Break. I thought it would be a good photo to apply an infrared filter to.

2. This is my second snapshot. For this step of the editing process, I used the channel mixer to change the photo to a grey scale and made the greens very high.

3. For this snapshot, I had done two different things to my photo. I duplicated the background layer twice, and on one layer I sharpened the image, and on the other layer, I blurred the image using Gaussian Blur. After that, I adjusted the opacity of both layers to make the image blend together.

4. In this snapshot, I had been adjusting the curves of the photo. I had trouble with this step, because I have never used the curves application, so I was not really sure what I was doing with it. In the tutorial, I was also unable to really understand how to use it, so I only made minor adjustments with the curves application. 

5. This is a snapshot of my final "Fake Infrared" image. I believe that the image in the tutorial looks better than mine, but this is the best I could do. I messed around with many different color choices, but this seemed to be the closest one to looking infrared. I painted a new layer, and then adjusted the opacity to make the image come through the painted layer.

My final image!

Blog Assignment #1

Roya Hamburger

  Roya Hamburger is an artist from Amsterdam. She does graphic designs for many companies, including magazine companies, advertisement agencies, publishers and more. Many of Ms. Hamburgers works are done digitally, and she works with various computer software editing programs. Her pieces are very interesting and playful, and have a 3D feel to them as well.

  This piece is titled Dilemma. This is one of Roya Hamburger's more detailed pieces. The denotations of this artwork are that there is woman who is the main focus of the piece. Around the woman are many random items branching off of different lines. All the items around the woman are in a similar orange to red color. The woman in the middle has pale skin, a bright white apron, black heels, a red scarf, and colorful hair. There is the word "Dilemma" written by the woman's face. The artwork gives the illusion of being done on a piece of grid paper that seems to be pretty old.
  The connotations of this piece of artwork are that the woman in the middle is wearing an apron and heels, so she seems to be a housewife or have the job of a housewife. All the different objects and lines around her seem to be different decisions, or "Dilemmas" that she is facing throughout her day. Which way to go, and what to do that day. The grid paper represents a map or directions for her day and the different "Dilemmas" she is facing.

  This next piece of art is entitled Tree Time. The denotations of this particular piece are that there is a large tree in the artwork, made up of different greens and purples. There are two green birds, and an orange tea pot. The words "Tree Time" are written to the right of the tree. The artwork is designed to represent a page of a book.
  The connotations of the piece are the tree is representative of the book. You use trees to make books. The colors are very happy and the birds represent joy. The teapot represents a calm and peaceful cup of tea, just like reading a book is calm and peaceful. "Tree Time" refers to enjoying a book, maybe even outside with trees and things that make you happy and calm.


 

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