Design Your-Own Art Project:
I have always been obsessed with making things by hand and I have always been obsessed with memories. I wanted to make something, by hand, where I could record my memories of high school for the future. I’ve always been inspired by old fashioned things, so I knew right an way that I wanted to make a cover for my scrapbook out of a leather-ish material and I wanted a way to secure a close to my scrapbook. Thinking about color schemes, I considered the brown leather and which colors would look good with it and I decided on a color scheme of blues and neutrals. I started out the process of making my scrapbook by making my own paper, followed by preparing the paper, and binding the book.
Documentary Project:
The documentary project was a combined video project between Physics and Digital Art. For this project, in groups, we decided on a topic that has to do with an environmental issue our world is faced with today. We then researched the topic, gathering information to build an argument for the video. Each member of the group interviewed at least one person about the the topic to include in the documentary. With a combination of original and borrowed footage, we edited our video, building a story for our argument.
Why do artists produce preliminary plans?
Artists produce preliminary plans to get an idea of what they want their final product to look like and to see that their project includes every desired component that they are looking to include. Planning before you actually start your project allows you to look at what you already know you have a plan for and think about what you might be missing.
What 21st century stills are employed in the making of a work of art?
Flexibility and Creative Thinking, are greatly employed in the making of a work of art. In the making of art, you’ll often find yourself stuck in situations where things didn’t go as planned and you need to be flexible in these types of situations to be able to work with or around where your art has ended up. Once you have accepted the situation and are flexible with it, creative thinking is very useful to think up ways that you can solve the issue and make it work.
What is old, and what is new in art?
In art, concepts remain constant, but its how those concepts are used that determine whether they are old or whether they are new. Using concepts of art in ways we are familiar with, ways that have been done thousands of times before is old, you are only recreating what’s already been done. While, taking these concepts and present them in ways that haven’t been done before or have only recently been accomplished in the smallest amount, that’s what makes art new.
Artists produce preliminary plans to get an idea of what they want their final product to look like and to see that their project includes every desired component that they are looking to include. Planning before you actually start your project allows you to look at what you already know you have a plan for and think about what you might be missing.
What 21st century stills are employed in the making of a work of art?
Flexibility and Creative Thinking, are greatly employed in the making of a work of art. In the making of art, you’ll often find yourself stuck in situations where things didn’t go as planned and you need to be flexible in these types of situations to be able to work with or around where your art has ended up. Once you have accepted the situation and are flexible with it, creative thinking is very useful to think up ways that you can solve the issue and make it work.
What is old, and what is new in art?
In art, concepts remain constant, but its how those concepts are used that determine whether they are old or whether they are new. Using concepts of art in ways we are familiar with, ways that have been done thousands of times before is old, you are only recreating what’s already been done. While, taking these concepts and present them in ways that haven’t been done before or have only recently been accomplished in the smallest amount, that’s what makes art new.
Stop Motion Animation:
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Reflection:
I could use stop motion animation in my Lake Powell and Glen Canyon Dam documentary for explaining the species of fish that have become endangered or extinct since the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam. I could also use stop motion animation for explaining hydropower and explaining the history seeing as there is limited footage out there. |
Logo Project:
Reflection: I feel like this project has allowed me to have an understanding of the effects that choices in a logo effect the image of what they represent. The font, the thickness, the accents, the embedded imagery, and all other decisions made in the creation of a logo take effect on what the logo says about what it represents. Understanding this has allowed me to think about what kinds of messages I wanted to portray myself as and I did my best to try to represent these concepts in my logo. Mainly, I wanted my logo to portray me as professional, yet fun and passionate, yet open. I wanted my logo to portray myself as an actress, seeing as that is the career I would like to have for my self when I get to the adult world. To try to capture all these ideas that I wanted my logo to embody, I began with writing out my name. When looking at my name and thinking about expressing myself as an actress in my logo, I came up with the idea for the "y" at the end of my name to fade into a film strip. Although I have yet to act in film, I feel this really represents myself as an actress. To express professionalism, I selected a text font that to me resembles this idea, without having the logo portray myself as strict to give a more fun and loose feel to it. To show passion, I wanted the film coming from the "y" to feel much so apart of the logo and to do this, I made the film extend under the rest of the letters and seem fairly proportional to the rest of the logo and to ensure that my logo still gave an open feel by side this idea of passion, I left a reasonable amount of space between the film and letters. Personally, I feel the logo I created portrays myself as the actress I hope to become and plan on using this logo in the future.
Self Portrait Project:
For my self-portrait, I had originally wanted to portray myself as an artist and I wanted my project to look "good". Then, Roxy asked us to think about what kind of emotion does your self-portrait give. That made me look at my project and it allowed me to realize that the self-portrait that I had originally made, although it did express me as myself, it didn't reflect the emotions that I have hidden deep inside of me that make me who I am. When that came to me, I know I had to incorporate it into my project and I found in myself that the biggest emotion that I face that greatly effects who I am is judgement. Not only am I shaped by the judgement of others, but I am constantly being shaped by the judgement I made of myself. I am critical of myself and I feel like that is one of the most valuable traits that I have as an artist and as a person because it allows me to look at myself and see what more I could do to improve and what about myself I really like.
When is art criticism vital, and when is it beside the point?
Criticism of art is vital when it helps the artist to better portrait the effect that the artist is trying to express to the audience. Art criticism is beside the point when it specifically targets the artist them-self. When criticism is truly helpful, it allows the artist to receive feedback on how to better their art to properly send the message out to the audience that they are trying to express. When criticism is not in itself truly helpful, it doesn't give the artist any area in which they could grow, improve, and better their work and or hurts the artist rather than allows them to feel good about where they can go with their art.
What problem solving skills are employed in making visual reflections of self?
In making visual reflections of the self, you need to move past the problem that society has ingrained that when portraying the self, you have to portrait yourself at its best, as happy and beautiful. You need to move past that and realize that the self is not perfect and that a true reflection of the self would mean portraying it as something that is not perfect, but that is true. Then to deal with the problem of discovering what that reflection of the true self is. Then simply to portray that visually through art.
Criticism of art is vital when it helps the artist to better portrait the effect that the artist is trying to express to the audience. Art criticism is beside the point when it specifically targets the artist them-self. When criticism is truly helpful, it allows the artist to receive feedback on how to better their art to properly send the message out to the audience that they are trying to express. When criticism is not in itself truly helpful, it doesn't give the artist any area in which they could grow, improve, and better their work and or hurts the artist rather than allows them to feel good about where they can go with their art.
What problem solving skills are employed in making visual reflections of self?
In making visual reflections of the self, you need to move past the problem that society has ingrained that when portraying the self, you have to portrait yourself at its best, as happy and beautiful. You need to move past that and realize that the self is not perfect and that a true reflection of the self would mean portraying it as something that is not perfect, but that is true. Then to deal with the problem of discovering what that reflection of the true self is. Then simply to portray that visually through art.
Personal Photoshop Project:
Teacher Creature Project:
In this project, I first dealt with the background by warping the forest scene to appear as an island on the ocean scene, erasing the bottom right corner of the ocean scene, placing a highly feathered version of this on top of part of the night sky scene, and then placing a highly feathered version of the night sky scene with the “multiply” setting on top of all of it. Then, I crafted the characters by taking the parts that I need to create them, putting them together in a separate document, blending them together with the blend tool and hue selection, and added any additional refinements necessary. I refined the edges, copied and pasted them onto the background. I then changed the lightness, saturation, and hue of the characters to better fit the background and made any other adjustments that seemed necessary. When that portion of the project seemed pretty good, I saved it as a jpeg and copied and pasted it onto the image of Henry’s book. I changed that layer to the multiply setting, so that it was somewhat transparent, and used the warp tool to align my teacher creature image to the images in Henry’s book and once it was aligned, I changed the setting from multiply back to normal. I then made final adjustments anywhere that needed it and hid my signature in the image. The hardest part of this project was when my first background image vanished. I had saved my background image and was working on it when it just disappeared and I couldn’t find it in the folder that I saved it in, in the recycling bin, or anywhere when I searched for it. I was upset that all of that work had been lost, but having already been through the process, it wasn’t too difficult to recreate the work that had been lost. I learned that when it comes to art, I really like giving my work a mysterious feel to it in fantasy settings.
Halloween Photoshop Tools Project:
- I copied a texture onto the original image, used the multiply selection to the layer with the texture, and erased some of the texture layer so that it only covered the skin. I used a soft paint brush to make Belle's hair more vibrant, used a soft paint brush to darken Belle's lips, and used the pen tool and hue selection to change Belle's eye color.
- I selected certain teeth and used the warp tool to make then look like vampire teeth
- I used the paint brush tool using a soft paint brush to change Lana Parrilla's hair with multiple colors.
- I selected the part of the eye I wanted to change the color of using the pen tool and used the hue selection tool to change the color.
- I copied and pasted a solid green image onto the original image, used the multiply selection on the layer with the green, and erased the green that didn't cover Zelena's skin to change her skin color.
Foreground, Middleground, and Background in Photoshop:
The background is the main image located in the back of the image. The middleground is the collection of images located in the middle of the image. The foreground is the collection of images located in the front of the image. Foreground images are large versions of images that overlap images of the middleground, middleground images are medium versions of images that overlap images of the background, and background images are small versions of images that are overlapped by images of the foreground and middle ground. As images get father back in the picture from the foreground to the background, they get progressively smaller. In Photoshop the quick selection tools is very helpful to select images that you wish to place into a new picture and the sizing tool is helpful when placing the image in the picture, since It will be sized differently depending on if it’s in the foreground, middleground, or background.