And as we continued through the art gallery, to the next floor in the modern wing. The next photo to grab my attention was that of Pablo Picasso and his imaginative piece, the old guitarist. This photo also was craftily made with the use of oil on the panel. This painting was produced by Picasso when a close friend of his committed suicide, coinciding with his "Blue Period". What intrigued me the most about this photo was actually not the photo at all; nothing about its composition and color scheme. But the fact that there is a scrapped photo underneath. It is said to maybe have been a woman in a disturbed or worried position. This is interesting because paintings can change depending on the mood of the artist and the time period. Overall, the art museum was an eye opening experience that left me with a greater appreciation for the various styles and artworks artists create. And the guidance of Mr. Peck helped greatly as he narrated the pieces in both the contemporary section and the more modern section of the art museum.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Week 15
Craft:
The craft changed in a way that I used the side rulers to clean up the boxes and make sure there was a consitancy between all three. Also, the use of the text box to add the necessary data.
Concept:
To invite or to inform the public about Red Horse Goodbye's upcomming events. There is the almighty Warped Tour Concert, a sweepstakes, and a CD release.
Composition:
The layout remained fairly similar, except that I took the advice and moved the Red Horse Goodbye name in the concert poster more to the right in order to leave some visual room. Also the color of the name seems to match the boxes and the background more closely.
Style:
The fonts remain the same for the information section as well as the name for Red Horse Goodbye. The diameter of the boxes themselves all remained continous, as well as having a stroke around each one. The pictures added have consistancy and variation as they are all members of the group but different ones. The information section written not only contains the same font, but also is written in white with a black stroke for visabitly.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Special Edition Blog 1
My friend Patti and I arrived to the museum an hour before the tour began. We walked up the marble stairs and took our first picture, turned out great because of the lighting from the multiple windows! Well, we wondered a bit, getting a feel for the museum before Mr. Peck gave the tour. Finally, the actual tour began. We began on the second floor, with images depicting Christ and spiritual characters. Interesting to see, but almost seemed redundant. The painting that caught my eye was one done by Francesco Buoneri, called known as Cecco del Caravaggio. This photo was the Resurrection made in 1619, with oil paints. The painting itself is extremely large, and that is what drew me in. His style characteristics are that consisting of contrast betweenn light and dark, along with intricate droopy folds, a bold outline and human expression. The reason behind the paintings size is that Buoneri preferred to draw life sized figures. This painting follows the gospels version of the resurrection fairly closely as it shows Christ rising from the dead on the third day. His use of intricate detailing is seen here on the photo to the right, as even the toe jam under his nails is painted and documented. He plays with color in this painting by using red in a sleeve, a pop of turquoise and and a pinch of purple in the flag.
week 14
Craft:
I used the same tools as before, the paint bucket and textual box. Nothing changed in craft according to my previous posters.
Concept:
One poster announcing that my band, Redhorse Goodbye is playing in the Vans Warped Tour. The second one announcing that their new CD will be released in all stores soon. And the final is to win a trip with one of the band members.
Composition:
The change in the second and third poster, CD and trip, the first line needed to be changed in order to fit in the box, in a visually appealing manner. All the posters needed to be tweaked a little more in order to accommodate all the information (who, what, where).
Style:
Lines running on the 1in marker and the 15 in marker horizontally, and a third line running at the 3 inch mark vertically. The font for the title and the information remains the same, while the band name has a different font, as if to be branded. The variation in these three posters is that of color and the band member present.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Week 13
Craft:
First, I chose a background, a dark navy blue color. Next, I used the paint tool to paint a horizontal and vertical black line. Than, I added photos of a fan and a drum-set.
Concept:
Three posters containing the made up band RedhorsE GoodbyE for their concert, sweepstake, and CD signing.
Composition:
The text that stay the same are the title and the where and why. The black lines run around either the upper left hand corner or the lower right hand corner.
Style:
The fonts used consistently through are comic sams and Carta. The lines are always black, and the background in the first one is a off teal color. The title is always in a outline red color. All my models used in these photos are the band members, or my friends.
week 12
Craft:
Posting our pictures in the are gallery downstairs. Than with pen or pencil, write our thoughts.
Concept:
In order to determine what our projects are trying to say.
Composition:
Placing each photo next to one another, and than pinning sheets of paper underneath them.
Reaction:
The closest reactions were the ones saying either "restaurant in the sky" or "fantasy land". But the person that said, "Inspired by the movie Up" was extremely correct. The person that said, "Opposite, spongebob above water" was the most interesting reaction that I had received because i never thought of it in that perspective. Almost everyone understood what I was trying to communicate, the farthest response was a "floating house".
Monday, April 5, 2010
week 11
Craft:
For the final photo, my background was lighter than my foreground. To fix this, I used the hue/saturation and brightness/contrast tools to help fix the lighting to make it seem more believable.
Concept:
A restaurant in the air supported by balloons.
Composition:
The main thing i chnaged was the background to a more clear setting of clouds. To make the picture more real, firstly I added more balloons to each object, to support the intial wieght. Than i added a scene from a McDonalds that I shot to place inside the Krusty Krab to make it seem as a real restaurant. Lastly I placed a picture of a seagull, the same one twice, in the background to show that it was high in the air.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
week 10
Craft:
During the critique, most people commented on my cars and complimented the colors. They liked the idea of both cars being the same, but looking different because of the color. But, the background was were most people made their critiques. Its blurry and needs to be redone.
Concept:
A floating restaurant with cars driving through.
Composition:
I made the cars seem as if they are driving to and from the restaurant, as well as parking. Im planning on switching the car to face the other way, and appear more as a drive through as people said. Also I plan on adding a photo from a restaurant to appear inside my restaurant.
Monday, March 15, 2010
week 9 .
Craft:
With the background being kind of dark and dusky, I used the previous learned technique of hue and saturation and toned down the color of the krusty krab. Also, I made the background blue a little lighter, just to play around with the techniques.
Concept:
To show a hyper-reality of a restaurant and car floating in the sky by balloons.
Composition:
Not much has changed, just the color of the picture and the arrangement of the Krusty Krab .
Week 8
Craft:
We learned three new tools that allow us to isolate an object: the lasso, the magic wand, and the rectangular box. With the combination of these tools, I can remove background space and this allows me to have the specific object saved and moved into any picture.
Concept:
To make a hyper-reality image of a fast food restaurant floating in the air by balloons, with the car floating by balloons as well.
Composition:
I set a background, but subject to change since I want to shoot the prefect one. I added the Krust Krab in the corner.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Week 7 .
Craft:
In the image with the restaurant, I put the camera on the flower position to capture the image up close.
Concept:
No one likes to wait in lines at the drive through at a restaurant, so my hyper reality is to have the Krusty Krab in the sky, along with a car. The way to have them in the air, is by floating with balloons in the sky. Spongebob and other characters will represent customers attending that restaurant, but will eventually be put in the car or around the car.
Composition:
I'm taking the sky picture with ground in the bottom to represent that this restaurant was different from everything else, that this was reachable only to the few, leaving lines virtually short.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
week 6 .
Craft:
Learning a new technique on photoshop , I added a background color and a black box with a title. Choosing the perfect color was easy with the previous learned tools such as saturation and contrast. The images we're also put in the middle or towards the top of the image to make the bottom, bottom heavy. Also, we used another previously learned technique, stroke, around the entire border.
Concept:
The entire ten steps in how to plant a flower.
Composition:
The black and white photos with one color photo, I chose a dark green color, to make the blue in the water jug pop. Than in the entire color piece, I used a neutral brown color so the emphasis remains on the photos.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Week 5 .
Craft:
Using Photo shop, I resized my images and formatted them in two rows. I learned that you can resize more than one layer at a time by clicking and draging over all the desired images.
Concept:
These images visually show how to plant a flower in ten steps.
Composition:
Functionally, I placed five images on top and five images on the bottom. I enlarged the 5th step showing that opening seeds was important in planting a flower, more so than the final or first step. I arranged them closely leaving a little space in between to achieve a consistant pattern.
Formally, I need to make corrections because although my images were in two rows, I did not correctly size them and left uneven, unwanted gaps. Once corrected, they will look clean and organzied.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Week 4
Craft:
First of all, you must capture a process in ten digital photos; I chose planting a flower. After opening photo shop, you must upload each individual photo, choosing the exact pixels you want shown. Afterwards, file transform each layer to the appropriate size. Then move around the images in order because you only have a 17x11 paper.
Concept:
To visually show the ten steps in how to plant a flower, starting from step one all the way to step ten.
Composition:
I laid the ten steps in a particular way, around the top I used steps one through five, making them a little smaller than the original. Than around the right handed side, i used step six through nine. In the left over area I used, I placed step 10, which was the largest picture. Your eye begins in the left and reads to the right, than downwards.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Week 3
Craft:
I put the fake flower into the ground and took a photo with my camera at a lower angle aiming towards the dirt.
Concept:
The last step in planting a flower, watching it grow.
Composition:
Since it was winter outside, I chose a fake flower to put into the ground to represent a grown flower. To get the angle that I wanted, I laid on the ground and put my camera on the ground as well. With this, I was able to get blades of grass in the photograph as well. Also, at this angle, I was able to catch to the details of the dirt and surroundings. The color choice was even intentional as I thought the color purple would stick out against the green blades and the dark brown soil.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Week 2
Step One: Select the correct cake mix for the occassion.
Step Two : Collect all the necessary ingredients: eggs, water and oil.
Step Three : Preheat oven to 355 degrees .
Step Four : Pour all the necessary ingrdients into a large bowl.
Step Five : Mix all the ingredients until all are smooth.
Step Six : Spray the pan with cooking spray.
Step Seven : Pour the cake mix into the pan.
Step Eight : Put the pan into the preheated oven.
Step Nine: Lick the bowl clean.
Step Ten : Let the cake cool.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Week 1
I have no idea what I'm doing, so I'm just going to wing it. About me, right that was the assignment? Well, here goes nothing . Starting with the name : Monica :] . I'm 100% Polish but will probably deny it at any cost. Currently a Nursing major, but ask me again in four years. I'm terrified of dogs, i run at the sight of a poodle. The color green, in my opinion, is the worst color. I have a personal phobia of it, I won't eat/wear it. I have the attention span of a toddler, which means I'm always doing weird crap to keep me entertained. Is this the part where I generically talk about friends & co? eh, it is now. I'm the type of person that has only two extremly close freinds, and a couple of decent friends instead of 12849840964 regular freinds. We're a tight group, and i love it. :] . My older sister, i can honestly say, is my role model and the way I am today. Uhm, I have a boyfreind, whats there to say about him other than hes great and well a boy ? I don't know how long this is suppose to be, so without running into the risk of sounding well crazy im going to end this. Bye :]
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