Smoke Tutorial

This tutorial teaches a very realistic, but somewhat complicated way to add smoke to a photo. However, the upside of the complexity of this method, is that it allows the artist to adjust the smoke freely, contorting the smoke in any way they want.

Artist Review- Wolf Kahn

I enjoy the exaggerated color Wolf Kahn uses, like the startling pinks and yellows. Though his paintings are not realistic, they still remind me strongly of fresh air and the outdoors. He is able to take a scene from nature, make it somewhat abstract, but still keep it instantly recognizable.

Inside Out

In this project, we took the exterior of something, and tried to represent what is on the inside. I chose to take a picture of myself and depict the inside of my head as a variety of gears. I used the lasso tool to delete half of my head, and behind it I had a black background. I filled the empty space with different gears, to show that the human brain is very complicated.

Filtered Self Portrait

In this project, we created nine self-portraits, each with a different filter on them. I used a wide range of filters, each of them doing something very different. My favorites were the Glow Filter (middle right) and the Mosaic Filter (middle left). The Glow filter changed the background to black, while outlining crucial lines of the photo in bright colors, making it look like a neon sign. The Mosaic Filter made my portrait appear to be made up of tiny tiles.

Midterm

Our midterm project was to create a piece filed with 35 squares, each of them containing something different. Some contain one-square-inch snapshots of previous projects, while others contain solid colors.  

I attempted to make my arrangement of squares seemingly random. while still keeping it eye-pleasing. I made the solid block colors match the colors in many of the pieces of art, and attempted to organize the matching colors, to a certain extent. I wish I had had more time, and then I would have been able to fill the top 7 squares with interesting snapshots.

Holiday Card

Marla

This work is based off of paintings done by a famous four-year-old named Marla in Binghamton, New York. However, there is controversy over whether or not she actually completed these paintings herself. Her father is suspected have helped her along, or maybe even to have done the paintings himself. Either way, the paintings have a distinct abstract style.