Animoto Video

This project involved a website called Animoto. This website allows you to create a themed slideshow of various images, and set this slideshow to music. I chose a water theme for my slideshow, and I inserted pieces of my artwork which I though would go nicely with the theme. I chose an upbeat jazzy song for  my video because I thought it matched the video nicely.

Chairs

This project, though difficult, turned out to be one of my favorite projects this year. We coated chairs in paintings and photographs. I chose to coat my chairs in famous pieces of artwork by Andy Warhol. The second chair, which Sam and I worked on, is coated in paintings by Jackson Pollock. The second part of the project was to create a shadow for the chair. This was a fairly simple way to create a realistic effect.

Comic Strip

By: Sam, Ian, and Michael
For this project, we took pictures of ourselves around the school, and made them look like a comic strip by adding speech bubbles, and using the effect Posterize to make them look like cartoons. We could not find a conclusion exciting enough to do it justice, and we wanted it to remain a mystery. So, it is up to the viewer to decide what Michael was doing.

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.