Blog 5

1. The most significant accomplishment looking at my Final would be my used of layering and the circular flow it created throughout the entire piece itself.  Looking at the work altogether it was able to create a deeper meaning of time and flow through the color change in each piece, the advancement of the pyramid, the progression of birds to planes and the overall circular motion of the piece.   The transition from the God Anubis, The Pharaoh, and the mans silhouettes displays were people have come from to the unknown of our future with the silhouettes of man compared to the outlines of the Anubis God and the Pharaohs.

2. Quiz 2 was the most challenging learning experience for me.  I had a lot of issues trying to used the different selection tools.  In this quiz you can tell that the images were selected from another sources and placed in this piece.  I was able to master my skill with this tool in my Final, through the insertion of the plane, helicopters, and the glass pyramid. Using other techniques such as blur and the eraser tool allowed me to be able to make these images look seamless, as if there were originally in this art work.

3. In my Midterm and Final I was able to change the color of each frame, creating a shift in time.  I achieved this feeling in the Midterm by selecting each frame and changing the saturation to create the illusion of a shift in the day.  In the Final I was able to not only change the hue/ saturation, but used different filters as well as the adjustment tools to create the shift from the dark ages to the now with a bright sky.  Through my advancement of the tools and techniques acquired I was able to create a more meaningful art work in the Final than in the Midterm.

Blog 4

The Big Idea for my final project is the concept of time and it repeating itself.  In my final work, I am attempting to show how time is a long cycle that is beautiful and constant.  I would like to accomplish mean meaning visually, by a constant of time through colors and layers.  I am using a contrast between black in white and color in my diptych.  I think my image will communicate my meaning through the life of the wheel.  I am using a picture as wheel with sunlight rays shining through as inspiration.  I envision this in an art gallery. 

The artist David Choe, Georgia O’Keefe, and M.C. Escher have influenced my work.  David Choe’s use of realistic people and ma, yet machinery influenced my idea of time and how things change, yet stay constant.  Georgia O’Keefe use of vivid colors has inspired me to use the same realistic colors to bring to like the second part of my diptych.  M.C. Escher’s use of black and inspired to for the first part of my diptych to stay constant with the black and white conventionalism, yet have a sense of no end or beginning.

David Choe:

Georgia O'Keefe:

M.C. Escher:

Blog 3

Ruins of Hope

http://artistsofphotoshop.com/2009/03/elton-fernandes/
 The Shining Path

http://eltonfernandes.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2px5qy
Escape to the Void 

http://eltonfernandes.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2azzyr

The artist, Elton Fernades appeals to me, because he is able to manipulate pictures in a way the shows the long progression of time and isolation.  Many of his pictures are about destruction.  I think the big idea of Fernades work is the means to an end, all of his work is distorted and dark.  I find the isolation and the lighter tones in the art to be inspiring.  To me the distant light in the artwork, is like a bit of hope.  I would like to know what the artist is thinking about. What is the true meaning of his artwork, not just what I think.  I would like to incorperate Fernades use to light into my final project so I can ssent a mood the my big idea of time and how it is perceived.  I can learn how to better blend and work on a variety of layers.  My struggle so far has been blending multiple images to make them look as one.  This would make may work all around stronger.  

Erik Johansson

Untitled

http://artistsofphotoshop.com/2009/03/erik-johansson/

Vertical Turn

http://www.alltelleringet.com/

Perspective Squarecase

http://www.alltelleringet.com/

The artist, Erik Johansson's artwork appealed to me, because he was able to take structures like roads and morph them.  I think the big idea is this work, is optomism.  Every picture is open bound, with lots of space., there are no boundies and the roads and stairs last forever.  I think the idea of openess to be inspiring in this work.  Unlike Fernades' work, Johansson is much upbeat.  I would be interested in knowing what inspired Johansson and how he was able to transsform these objects without distorting them.  I want to use the vast space the like the artist.  He is able to make it look as if it stretches across forever.  I want to be able to have open space and make it look utilized.  I can stylistically learn how to distort images, without taking the value or quality away from the work of art.  I think being able to keep the true look of the work while altering it will make my work stronger.  Im not sure what apporches to making an artwork I could use  that the artist did.

Layers Raspberry Panda

This blog it an experiment with layer s based on a Tutorial from the website http://www.worth100.com./

Above is the original picture that I began with.  For the first few steps, I uploaded the  picture of the panda and the raspberries.  Then I selected each picture out using the magnetic lasso tool and moved each to a new layer.

Next I used the raspberry layer and liquified it to fit over the panda's feet.  I found it diifcult to liquify the raspberry, becasue it altered the image.  Instead I cloned the rasberry using the cloning stamp.  It does have the same effect but it was easier to fill the panda.  Then I filled in the panda with the raspberry stamp and erased and overlays.

To finish this I used the copied the raspberry layer over the pandas face.  For this step turned the opacity to about 40 so I could see the panda layer and raspberry.  Then I used the magnetic lasso tool on the duplicated raspberry later to cut out the shape of the eyes and the nose.  Above is the final image.  I tried to place the panda back in the original image, but it wouldn't format correctly. 

Below is the link which I found the Tutorial.

http://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/161408/how-i-created-raspberry-frog

Connotation and Denotation of HKKF

The Modern Icarus II.

The first image is The Modern Icarus II, the denotations identified in this image is a man hooded with makeshift wings, a crow next to him, on the edge of a cliff.  The man is in modern apparel with a dark hooded sweatshirt, jeans, and sneakers.  This background is dark with clouds looming over his head.  The Modern Icarus II, comes from the Greek mythology, the story of Icarus.  Icarus was a craftsman's son, his father construct wings for him to escape.  In the myth Icarus was attempting to escape from Crete and was instructed nor to get to close to the sun.  Icarus flew higher and higher towards the sun, were his wings burned and he tumbled to his death.  The connotations in this image is focusing on the lone man, he his direct in the middle of the image with his wings and a crow.  His contemplative stance on the edge of the cliff leaning downward is suggestive to the thought of him jumping.  In this modern version of Icarus, it is suggestive that he is trying to escape from reality or the daily troubles of life.  

The Modern Prometheus.

In the second image, The Modern Prometheus the denotation seen in in this image is a man holding his head, with the words job, me, society, and family divided into sections on his face.  A piece of meat is nailed to the wall with the word money written across it.  The image, The Modern Prometheus is derived from the Greek myth of the titan, Prometheus, whom stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mankind.  Prometheus was punished by Zeus, bound to a rock and had his liver devoured by an eagle, only for the liver to regenerate daily and the eagle to return.  The connotations in this image is a sense of grief, the man his palming his head as people do when they are frustrated.  The words labeled on his face, job, society, family, and me are the things in life that you deal with daily.  This words are all things that man struggles with.  The man is alone in this image, much like the image, The Modern Icarus II.  The Modern Prometheus has his liver nailed to wall as a form of punishment, title money.  Society, job, family and himself are things he may have stolen and in a sense is being punished with money weather it be being alone with all the money in the world, or being alone with no money.  Society has corrupt people into focusing on money and placing it above family, society, a job, and even above yourself yourself.  Thus this trouble is nailed to the wall and regenerates daily, like Prometheus' liver in the Greek myth.    

Both images are works created by HFFK.  They can be found on the link below.

http://hffk.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2vtq0q