Digital Surrealism

 1. My message in this photo was "When you abuse a person, they die out" specifying women in this case. The meaning behind the ocean is that sometimes the ocean can seem calm and composed but it's actually rough and stormy, representing the "abuser". The reason I had my model suspended in the air and dissolving was because she's just falling into their grasp (the hands) like she has no choice, and she's so broken pieces of her are dissolving away.

2. At the start of this project I knew exactly what I wanted to do. Taking the idea from a previous sketch I had done and tweaked it. It took me 3 sketches to decide which composition looked best, and in the end I didn’t completely go with my design.
Next I started looking for pictures and once I found a satisfying picture of the ocean I started shooting.
I got some hand models and set the lighting to the tone of the background and took my pictures. I only used only the best photo that I took.
After I went to photoshop and cut the hands out of the background, placed them on a separate layer, positioned them then refined the edge and created a new layer with masks.
Once I was happy with that I took a picture of my model suspended on chairs but then cut out the chairs and the background then put her on the final picture, placed her in the sky and "dissolved" her. Then I played around with positioning for a while until I deemed it done. The way it changed from the original plan was I was supposed to have a hand holding onto my model but it looked nicer without it.

3. I learned a couple things in the making of this project. For one I learned how to make a picture smaller, because before this project I couldn't figure it out for the life of me (you have to press shift and then drag the corners) I also learned that if you press dissolve and change the opacity on a subject more and more pixels disappear. It's also very hard to crop the background from smaller spaces. But I learned to fix my mistakes.

Jerry Uelsmann Surrealism Prezi

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Truth - Seven Grandfather Teachings

This is the art piece my partner Alek and i created to represent one of the seven grandfather teachings, which is truth.

Logo Design Project

"PartyPug Event Planners" Logo Finals and Roughs

Rough Type Solutions

Rough Colour Combinations

Original Photo

Final logos 

Final Logo Type

"Chasse Nocturne"
Nathalie 20x24
Acrylic on canvas

    When you first look at this artwork you can see a beautiful recreation of a wolf with its head down, pressed against a dark red sky, flowers and vines intertwining its way around the artwork. The lines that compose the artwork are thick and curved, but in some areas are also thin, the lines all seem to curve downward. Shapes that you can see in this painting are circles and triangles, and 3 quarters of a heart. The colours are darker and cooler, Blues, Blacks, crimson and purple.

The first thing you were to see when you look at this artwork is a stunning blue and white wolf. The painting is asymmetrically balanced and is heavier on the left side. The light on this painting is pouring down onto the wolf, shining from above which makes the darkest part become where the wolf makes a shadow on the grass below him. There is very little space in the artwork, you can only see the closeup of the wolf, grass, flowers and vines intertwining it's way around the artwork. 

 I feel that the meaning in this art piece is that there is beauty in the night, and we can only see it if we stop being "predators" and actually enjoy the serenity. The wolf is standing in a feild with his snout down, possibly eating grass, enjoying the night . I feel like the artist is trying to portray serenity. The artist is not concerned with line, nor the title portraying a feeling. Though if you were to look at this artwork, the world's you'd use to describe the feelings that come to you would be: darkness, Calm, serene, earthly and peace.

Theories that would describe the artwork would be imitationism and formalism, I absolutely love this artwork, the moment I saw it I felt drawn to it, the darker colours in the background that have the bright white and blue contrast against it attracted me to it and gave me a calmer feeling, over all I'd rate this piece of artwork 8/10

Dynamic

Steady

                       

In the two pictures above I created a steady rhythm and a dynamic rhythm using line. In the steady rhythm i used repetitive horizontal line with a pattern in the spacing which goes "line, big space, line, big space, line, small space, line ,big space, line small space..." and so on. the lines direct your eyes to the bottom of the page as though you're reading a book. In the Dynamic rhythm I used a composition of horizontal and vertical lines, the horizontal lines are pointed at the ends. Each of the horizontal lines take turns going down the page, starting from left to right. the vertical lines were added to make a sense of traveling downward.

I feel my dynamic rhythm works better and is more pleasing to the eye. The steady rhythm looks like a page in a book and the dynamic rhythm looks like a fence to me.

"I do stuff Lori...thangs"- An inspirational quote from Rick Grimes, The Walking Dead