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.

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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.