So our newest project is based on the idea of taking something organic and making it mechanical. Like, taking flower pedals or a fish and giving it gears, bolts, wires, and other metallic things. This prompt proved to be a wealth of ideas and creativity. I spent an entire class period brainstorming, and came up with so many ideas that it was very hard for me to narrow it down. I thought about making a factory cake; a factory in the shape of a sweet, sitting in a bakery window spewing sewage and smoke. And there was a scean of fall leaves in a tree plated with colored metal. I decided to go with a clock work cat; made of a lot of gears, pullies and bars instead of wired and circuitry. It looks more rustic and more like actual muscle and bone structure in a sense. I spend some time figuring out different compositions and angles to take the picture in, and settled on a picture I took of my cat curled on my bed. Looking at the picture, a new idea began to form. I decided I wanted to put it on a background, a scene specifically. One where the robotic cat seems to be sitting on the bed of a mechanic; with tools and bolts strewn around the sheets, drawing tools and even a tool box included in the background. To capture the harsh and smooth look of metal, I used different colored pens, sharpies specifically, to add a splash of color and lighting to the piece. I used water color for the background, as the sharpies could not color the whole thing without it looking sketchy and broken. Not only that, but the colors are muter than the sharpie, so it all sort of fades to the background, where as the objects stand out. Overall, I am very pleased with how this one turned out.
Our newest project was a self portrait done in a medium of our choice. It could be anything we wanted, as long as it was accurate and reflected something about us. By accurate, I mean proportionally accurate. Our teacher went over the basics for the distance between all the parts on a human face, and we spent the first few days of this project practicing and brainstorming for our picture. I decided that mine would be digital, a medium choice I had been wanting to use in a project for some time. For this project, I just let my imagination go with all the things it thought to add to the picture, and it ended up going really out there. The colors are varied and wild, but still complementary to each other and work well on the canvas. I went with unconventional colors for myself all surrounding a pink tone. Thus I called this piece 'Portrait in Pink,' a very fitting title. I used a combination of brushes and markers that were in the tool bar of the application I used, of which there are many, to create a variety of looks to differentiate the stuff in the foreground from the background. The pen I used to outline most of the picture is a cool effect line that corrects itself after you make a stroke on the canvas to make a cool sort of varied length amongst all the lines. Not to mention the blending tool, when turned to a smaller setting, smears the colors together in an intriguing fashion that follow the contours to a person's face very realistically. I greatly enjoyed returning to a medium I had been dying to use for a while. I hope to use it again sometime soon.
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