Surrealism Photography

1. The message I want to portray in this photograph is that school stresses students out. It doesn't matter if it's homework, tests, or extracurricular, if  students have a lot of homework and tests to study for, it can take a huge toll on their health and wellbeing, both physically and mentally. When students are bombarded with schoolwork and other things, they might not have time to finish all of it because of personal reasons, then the teachers get them in trouble plus their marks drop. When the marks drop, so does the students self confidence, then they'll just stop trying and give up all together.

2. I actually didn't have any sketches close to my finished product, this is because a quarter of the way through, I changed my idea. I was taking pictures of my friend when I decided that I wanted to make my photo a school setting, but I couldn't think of anything related to school and social issues so I started getting really stressed because I was running out of time, then....it hit me... my topic would be schools stressing out students. So I took a picture of Angel in the hallway and got to work.  I wanted my photo to be creepy in a way so I was more focused on the physical toll that stress can take.  I looked up hot to put a cut and peeling effect on photos and found a really good video on YouTube here. I found  some images of peeling and cracking  paint and placed them on top of the picture of Angel. I proceeded to create a layer mask and selected my brush tool, I erased the parts of the picture I didn't need and matched the colour of the image to angels skin tone, making her skin look cracked, and un-moisturized. I played around with contrast and brightness until I was satisfied and created a red gradient over top of the image making it look more spooky.

3.  I learned lots of things during this project, many of them being Photoshop Techniques like, using masks, merging 2 photos together, and using the gradient tool. Even though I changed my idea im happy with how it turned out because it looks really nice and professional….in my eyes anyway.

Surrealism Prezi

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Tech Photography

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Art Criticism!!

"Spirit 200" Jane Ash Poitras

In my last post, I didn't post anything except a mixed media painting. The painting is called "Spirit 2000" by Jane Ash Poitras, Although I don't know when this painting was created, I do know more. This painting is a 36x24 mixed media on canvas. In the painting there are many colours that range from blues, to reds, and yellows. Many of the colours used contrast against each other. Some objects in this painting are, a lady in the middle, she is kneeling and holding what looks like a crutch in her left hand, and the right hand is holding the top of the crutch. In this painting there is also the name of the painting written in cursive near the top of the canvas, and some writing in the bottom right corner that I cant decipher. The lines in this artwork are both strong, and rough, and most of them look, and give the feel that they are fuzzy. The colours of the lines are Blue, Red, Orange, and White.

The focal point in this artwork is the picture of the lady in the middle. This artwork is asymmetrical because the designs on the painting are not the same on ether side. I feel like the light is coming from the bottom right corner, because the corner is white, then light blue, then it fades into dark colours. The darkest area in the art is the top left corner. I think this because the corner is the darkest shade of blue in the entire painting and the colours fade darker, the closer they are to the top left corner. This painting shows shallow space, meaning that you can't see very deep into the painting, and there isn't much depth. Some repetitive parts  in this artwork are, rectangles, and a figure that spans across the bottom of the painting, that resembles a child.


In all honesty I have no idea what is going on in this painting, or what the artist is trying to say in the painting , but what I do know is that the artist was NOT concerned with making anything in the painting lifelike (accept for the lady of course). The mood in this painting is very sad and depressing, I think this because the colours are dark and faded almost, and also the fact that the photo is old and in black and white. Because the painting is very "all over the place" with how the lines and designs are very asymmetrical, I think the artist did this on purpose to give the feel of insecurity, and unbalance. I feel that the title of the artwork does tell you what the painting is about. "spirit 200" I assume is directed toward the lady in the photograph.


Some words i think go with this painting are

• Sadness
• depression
• calming
• strength
• loneliness
• exhaustion

 Things that best describe this painting are; Emotionalism and formalism. I think this because the painting has very strong ways of conveying sadness and loneliness in ways that are very subtle. I also think that the artist makes you very aware of the shapes and lines by making them contrast form the background colours, by choosing brighter and bolder colours. Personally I really love this painting because its a kind of style i haven't really seen before and it stood out from all the other art we looked at. 

7 Grandfather Teachings Art

art by Siobhan ONLY not jessica xD

Me and Jessica painted the art above for a visual arts project. we had to paint one of the 7 Grandfather Teachings from Aboriginal culture. We ended up getting Humility, and the wolf, which is the animal that goes with it. 

Logo Project Process

For my logo project i chose a Cat because cats mean a lot to me

1. because i own one
2. i relate to them
3. ive loved them since i was small

it was really hard for me in the beginning of the logo process because i didn't really know what i was going to do from the start.i eventually decided on a coffee shop because as a child, owning a coffee shop was what i wanted to do the most when i was an adult, so the idea of a cat themed coffee shop was a good idea to me because both concepts were very close to me.

^These^ are my final logo's, i will now go through the steps i took to get there.

Above are my pictograph roughs and the pictures i used as , i went through a lot of trial and error for this project because, about 5 days before it was due i changed my logo completely, as you can see in the roughs, my first logo was a cat sleeping on a couch, i originally chose this one because i wanted my atmosphere to be calming and something about a sleeping cat just makes me calm. The reason i ended up choosing a different logo was because the first one was 

1. too complacated
2. too detailed
3. not visually appealing

so i ended up changing it to something way more simple, as you can see. 

Because i originally knew what colour i wanted to make my written logo i didn't experiment with colour as much, i more focused on the font. as you can see, i tried out some cursive fonts. Mostly because my logo is a cat and the cursive letters look like yarn, but i eventually chose a more edgy and sophisticated font because it looked more rustic, and i really like the rustic looks.

For my combined i experimented with lots of positions and things because i never really thought of what they would look like together. In fact, deciding what placement to use was so mentally challenging (lol not really) for me i needed to ask for the input of my friends and we decided on this.

again for lol's

CyberARTS Visual Arts Pintrest

"spirit 2000"By: Jane Ash Poitras

ITS FINALLY OCTOBER!!!!!

 

CyberARTS Tech Logo Project( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

CyberARTS Tech Logo Project

For our new tech project we need to design a logo for a made up company using Illustrator. My company is CoffeeCat INC. and i run a Cat Cafe (a place to drink coffee with cats 'n stuff).  My logo is a cat sleeping on a small clutch with a coffee cup. I Chose this because i think i have a lot in common with cats, for one, I'm warm and sweet, but i can be ignorant and dare i say rude sometimes heheh.... The reason i made my company a coffee shop is because it was always my dream when i was younger to own a small shop that sold cute cakes with  coffee and tea. So yeah, i will post my logo when it has colour and looks nice :) 

Rhythm Line Art Project ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

For our first CyberARTS assignment we had to create rhythm using only line. We had to Make two 8"x8" squares, one with line rhythm that was steady, meaning all lines are in the same direction, the only difference being the width and distance between the lines. The other one was dynamic, meaning the lines wont be linear(haha)or steady, making the lines look more abstract.

Steady.



Steady: For my steady rhythm line art, i made all lines the same width, moving downwards/vertically. The way i arranged the lines was to make the illusion of a heart that wasn't really there. how i did this was, i drew the shape then proceeded to make each  line following the shape, then i erased the shape and tweaked my lines to fit the image of the heart.

Dynamic.

Dynamic:For my dynamic, i made the lines thicker and thinner, also changing the orientation, making some lines horizontal and others vertical.The different orientation gave the image the illusion that the lines were getting farther away, but really they were just getting thinner and shorter.





i think they both look pleasing to the eye (  ͡°  ͜ʖ  ͡°)

ITS ALMOST OCTOBER

ITS ALMOST OCTOBER