Kaleidoscope

Our assignment was to make three kaleidoscopes out of pictures we took around the school. The three pictures I took were a picture of my friend Michael DeSimone, a picture of the senior mural of outer space and a picture of the mat on the floor by the gym. I enjoyed doing this project. I like my piece of Michael and of the senior mural.

Visual puns

For this project, our assignment was to make visual puns out of different images. The puns I chose to visually create were sun flower, star fish, butterfly, and fruit punch. For my sun flower I put an image of a sun over a real sun flower to make the flower part of the plant looked like a sun. In the sun flower piece I used the effects gradient and overlay to make the piece look how I liked. For my fruit punch pun I used an apple as my fruit and gave it arms with boxing gloves to be a punching fruit. I posterized the background to go with the cartoon theme of my piece. For butterfly I gave a stick of butter wings so it could fly. I used threshold and posterize on that piece. Lastly I did Star fish which was patrick star from spongebob on a red carpet making the actual star fish a superstar. I used threshold and posterize.

For this piece we had to take a image and add a background it to make it look like one image. For this project I chose a image of my favorite band Dave Matthews Band and placed them in front of WAHS. My inspiration for this is I was listening to the band and chose them to put on the background of school. The sax player for the band graduated from Western and my dad went to school with him. I thought it'd be cool to bring him back here.

Music Piece

Our assignment was to use a view images and a background to make a piece. As our first project, the main purpose was for us to explore with the photoshop program that we will use in class and learn the basic tools we need to know to create pieces. I enjoyed doing this project and I learned a lot from this assignment. I learned how to cut images into separate pieces and how to change their size. Also I learned how to move images and color them differently.

Crazy Combos

For this project our assignment was to combine multiple different images and put them into one. I had trouble deciding what I wanted to do for this project when first assigned. When I work on artistic projects I like to listen to music. I realized that I could incorporate the music I was listening to into my project. I decided I would use features of the artist's bodies to make one person. I used singer, Frank Ocean's body to start my project. Then I decided I'd use artist, Tyler the Creators' nose to put on his face. After that I used rapper, Earl Sweatshirt's, lips to add to the face. Then after that their friend Lucas' eyes. Once I was done I decided to add a personal touch to my piece but putting a hat on him and add the western logo to his hat. I'm happy with my piece.

15 Green Things

Our assignment for this project was to incorporate 15 different green, preselected items into one picture.  With this project we were given a lot of freedom to decide how we would use and arrange the photos. With this project the there were endless possibilites of how the 15 would be put into the work. With my project I used the large archway as my background; I thought it would serve as a good setting for my piece. I used the car as the center piece of my work. The car is the main focus of my work and all the other objects are arranged around it. I went with a somewhat abstract piece but it still has mostly non abstract features. I liked what the black and white feature did to my work.