Weekly Challenge 10

Weekly Challenge 9

Winter:

Almost complete concentration

CONCENTRATION IN PROGRESS

I changed my concentration theme in order to have a successful concentration over break. I think I am still going to pursue the Senior Year theme but extend it throughout the entire year. My new theme is about how technology is always around in everyday life, and ultimately consumes us. It is also about how people are obsessed with expressing themselves through social media, and always making sure people know what is going on at all times.

Newer concentration stuff

Concentration In Progress

I had two other pictures, but decided to change the theme of my concentration. The first two pictures I have still apply, but now I am going to change my theme to the progression through senior year. The central idea of my concentration is to show how my work load changes throughout my year and how I go from applying, to acceptance, to graduation. I think this theme is relevant since I am graduating this year and I have an emotional connection to my theme.

Weekly Challenge: Opposites

Silk Painting

I would give myself a 4 because of
 4.A There is successful use of the elements of design, but the investigation of 2-D design
principles is limited in scope.
4.B Some clear decision making and intention are evident
4.E Some of the work has evocative qualities that engage the viewer, though confidence is not
obvious; conversely the work may display confidence but not be engaging.

Dushanbe, BMoCA, and Pearl St Field Trip

The photo on the left of this picture was at one of the windows at Dushanbe. I was drawn to the different textures of the brick, curtain, curtain holder, and wood of the window pane, along with the accenting sun spots and leaves outside. The photo on the right is also at Dushanbe but of the west wall that has the intricate detailing over the mirrors. I was drawn to the contrast of the mirrors and the white overlay on it. Neither of these photos were edited.

Weekly Challenge 6

Weekly Challenge 5

Since the poem was about a road.. I figured a road sign was effective. I took this in old town Louisville.

4 Picture Narrative Series

I struggled with an idea but eventually came up with the idea of the darkness overtaking someone until they're reduced to almost nothing. The first three pictures are of Taylor Wild and the last is of a street performer on Pearl Street. As each photo progresses, the figure becomes more and more closed off. In the first, she is simply walking towards the darkness, but in the ones following, it actually begins to consume her. Each picture and the clothing get darker with each picture.

Weekly Challenge 4

My challenge was portraiture. I decided to emulate Cindy Sherman and do self portraiture. It's sorta emo.. awkward. 

20 Layers
I used record covers, record shards, playing cards, sharpies, nail polish, transparencies, spray paint, fabric, duct tape, images from other record covers, and white cardboard. I only adjusted brightness in Photoshop and added some yellow brush in the middle to connect the bottom left corner to the middle.

I actually sketched this out quickly during math and I am very happy with the way it turned out. I've been trying to strengthen my fine art skills and was happy at the turn out of this because the feathers look more realistic than I have been able to draw in the past.

 

Summer Art: I have a sort of obsession with street signs so I tried to photograph them in a way that focused on the colors and even minute textures of the signs and I tried to turn an everyday object into an eye-catching photograph. I selected the background in both images and desaturated them to make the colors pop even more and I raised both contrast and brightness and adjusted curves and levels. Both of these were taken in Old Town Louisville.  

Summer Art:
  I came across this horse along a trail in Boulder. I used a selective focus and some of the blur tool in Photoshop in order to create the effect. I additionally adjusted contrast and brightness for interest.

For my concentration, I picked a theme of letting go of stress because that's something I'm currently working through. I don't have a first image picked out as of now but I think this is going to end up as my last image of Concentration. I wanted the image to depict the model as finally being stress free and relaxing in nature. I might retake the picture to have her look more relaxed as opposed to dead in a field... But this is the basis of what I imagine as the final image.

Summer Art:
 I focused highly on the center of the sunflower and the stem which caused the leaves to have very clear, crisp lines. I took the shot in monochrome and in Photoshop, I duplicated the layer and added a gaussien blur at about 32%. Then I added a thin black border to tie the picture together.

Weekly Challenge #1: Opposing emotions. This weekly challenge truly was a challenge for me. I decided quickly on my photos and the emotions I wanted to use but the mixing of the two photos was very hard for me to conceptualize. 

Like the first, this summer art was my attempt at stretching my comfort zone and doing more mixed media as opposed to my usual photopure technique. I did heavy makeup on my little sister to create a dramatic effect and I added filters to both the eyeshadow and her hair. This made the image appear more like a drawing than a photo. 

This was my first summer artwork. I was attempting to combine photoshop brushes with photos and I wanted to add depth by copying the sunflower and putting it above the brushes and also add an HDR effect onto the sunflower to make it a strong focal point.