4 Words Assignment

War cry of a brave warrior

A bunny ate colored beans

My original idea was the first picture but after creating that one I couldn't find to many images with good resolution for the background so I went on to a different topic which I had pictures of my mom's rubarb patch which I added beans too, as it is hard to grow too many veggies at my parent's house because we are so close to the woods. The beans and bunny took alot of changing hues. The war cry pic was a pic I took at Pennsic an sca event http://www.pennsicwar.org/ and changed the sky a little to make it more epic and added in another pic I found of the trumpeter - which was very hard because I didn't know about layering at that point. Yes that is Ground's Keeper Willie in the last pic lol...

Eat my delicious memories!

Excuse me, could we at least sculpt a perfect future?

After writing this sentence I originally thought that my images would be based on my notion of a "perfect future", or utopia. Instead, I decided to portray a few dystopic scenarios, as well as one utopian scenario.

"Beasts at a Waterhole" portrays a man who has gone down to the river to collect water in his kettle, but finds himself soaked after a dog that can actually walk on water tricks him into thinking it is a solid surface. The large dog in the background is the disgruntled observer, and beast of burden to the man, who has adorned him in sweater and rope. Both man and sweatered dog are in a state of dissatisfaction, while the fluffy dog on the right is happy with his successfull trickery. A perfect future for the man would allow him to walk on water, too.

"Let them eat Broccolli" is utopic (as far as I'm concerned). I would be happy to walk through the woods and discover brocolli growing off of the trees... even after summer had ended. The dog on the toadstool is a guardian angel who has led the man to the prize. All is well in the utopia of plentiful broccolli and miniature dog angels.

"I wanna fly too" is an unfortunate scenario for both characters. The owl is sitting next to a birdhouse with doors that are too small for it to enter, while a girl is trying to get at the owl so that she may fly away from the birdhouse. She will have to work up the courage to jump onto the owl's back, and even then it may fly away before she can reach it. A perfect future for her would be to fly on her own.

Assignment #2-Word Creation

The sentence that I created was:

Don’t cry over imperfect memories, look forward to sculpting a better future.

Once I created my sentence, I had a vision of making my three images look as if someone was going through a hopechest and taking out photographs and placing them on the floor. I wanted the image to look layered. I wanted it to look as if the person pilled their memories on top of eachother.

I feel that people focus on the negative aspects of their past. I don’t think people look forward to what might happen in the future.

The human with time will fight the war on snow.

For this project, I made up the sentence The human with time will fight the war on snow. The beginning sequential piece is a human staring down the snow in front of the house. From the picture, it seems to not be working too well. The second image is a snowplow in the night fighting the snow by pushing back the snowbanks. The last one is in the spring when the snow is melting, around the time which is called mud season. There is a happy sun welcoming spring in and a man welcoming in spring by doing some running. I also included some spring flowers that are starting to pop up near the snowbank as well. Well, there it is, With time, the human will fight the war on snow.

colorful abstract tears

A Gentle Closeness to a Nude Rebellion

When I had selected the words for the title of my piece, again I wanted to contradict the meaning of those words. (Maybe it's a sarcastic way of looking at things, that I'm not quite sure.) For a rebellion is never gentle, or close --romantically-- for that matter. When I thought about the words "nude rebellion", I thought about female dominance. The illustration of women dominating men, in a romantic sense especially. I wanted to show the independence of the "lesser sex"; more of a political point, rather than a fashion shot from Vogue or something.

As the pieces progress from the first shot to the third and final shot, they illustrate the female model becoming more dominant over the male model. However, there is no sign of abuse in either one of the shots. Actually, in my opinion, the most intense thing in all of these photos is her eyes! I believe her eyes really show the determination of dominance, the drive to be in command, the fire of rebellion.

As far as the gradient is concerned, the more aggressive the photo is, the filter, or the grain complements that. It parallels the mood of each photo, with the first one being soft, romantic and loving; the second photo illustrating struggle and conflict; the third, and the most clear illustrating satisfaction of victory in dominance.

Each photo illustrates an event but is also kind of like a comic strip the illustrates a series of events that have the same common goal. In the photos I tried to capture female dominance, that in my opinion, in this society, is still a bit shunned.

Sentance Creation

Guess what the sentance from these images is, I guess...

So I wanted to show the three levels of skiing (beginner, intermediate, and advanced/racer) I admit, the bunny was a little harder then I thought it was going to be. To begin, I had an idea but it looked to be bluntly stupid, so I decided to make the background out of construction paper and fluffy cotton balls. The images of the skiers and bunnies are images I found on Google, except for the advanced/racer human, where I actually know him..

It didn't come out exactly as I wanted it to, but I like how it is paper in the background but coming into digital...

color explosion

Peacock Feathers

The dragon is unfinished and finished at the same time. I kind of like how it looks now so I'm going to keep it this way. I did the background on Photoshop and then added Plastic to get the effect. the mountin things and land is drawn right on the image.

color makeup scanography

Wines With Personality

The thoughts that inspiried this project were contradictory. The light from a scanner is supposed to reflect off of an image instead of going through it. I really thought about the mechanics of light and how the lines of objects almost disrupt a light's softness. And to make a contradtion to the light, I picked pieces of broken glass. I started collecting what I knew I could get my hands on (meaning empty alcohol bottles) becuase of the different shades and textures of glass to give the peices more texture.

I then took the cork from one of the wine bottles that read "Wine With Honesty" and that's how I completed the ideas of the pieces. I wanted each piece to have personality; to make the audience relate to the point I was trying to get across: something so ordinary can have an extrodinary human-like connection to the lives in which we live. (And let's face it, alcohol plays a small part in that for most of us at one point in our lives or another.)

The first piece, Wine With Character, has kind of a quirky, smart-ass feel to me. I wanted to incorporate like shapes with the caps becuase I found that the arrangement of patterns was relatively interesting. It makes you look at each peices of the project separately, instead of the entire thing in one, big, swig. I wanted the audience to capture the connection of written words of "advice" on each cap, and to be familiar with the cork that is standing upright in the middle of the piece. This peice happens to be different from the other two becuase of the title I wanted to give it. To me, character means something that stand out from the rest, tells a story, has, y'know, character.

The second piece, Wine With Integrity, was all about being complete from beginning to end. According to Webster's Dictionary, the definition of integrity is:"...the quality or state of being complete or undivided." This spoke to me in a sense that each fragment in this peice is different, but is arranged in a way that creates a like-minded image. As you can tell is a bottle. I feel as if this is the older brother to the previous piece becuase it is more dignified and mature; like it doesn't take any shit from its younger smart-ass sibling.

The third, and final piece sets the tone for the other two. Wine With Honesty is about containing togetherness between the different types of glass to create an image. The cork in to top, right-hand corner is the key part of the piece that ties each separate piece into each other. The word honesty is actually a synonym to the word integrity. It is about being honest, complete, just as it is, untouched. It tells the story of some of the most desired qualities that someone can have in a person. And that seems to be honesty, integrity, and character.

Scranography of Sharpies

In this picture, I wanted to draw with sharpies, and scan them in, and you see, the sharpies showed up in a neon sense, allowing the concept of sharpies to be shown.

PROCESS: drawings of sharpies, can not be scanned in with a black background, therefore, I scanned it in with the scanner closed, and then photoshopped it to the black background, and placed the sharpies into the picture.

So, above I had shown my fantastic (sarcastic) drawing skills, yeah that's about how good they get, so I decided to stay with something that won't look bad either way, and in fact I find it looking really cool with the neon feel.

Last, but not least, I wanted to show just a part of my collection of Sharpies, and I touched them up with repair to make them appear better, and look newer.

The Beginning, The Middle, and The End

"Go forth and prosper" is easier said than done. Here, the coffee ground earth meets the luxurious heavens as pigs march boldly towards a hopeful future of entitlement. Is it progress, or an unrealistic notion of abundance and wealth? Only time will tell...

As the sun continues to burn itself thin, the wee little piggies grow weary in the heat. As the scene on the surface declines with less and less food and drink to be had, the exiled witch and beetle survive happily underground, avoiding the sun's cancer-causing "Radiation".

And so our marching piggies reach "The end of the road". The wealthy past is long forgotten and the blistered pink beings return to the soil to grow that which they once ate lavishly, but took for granted. The exiled beings spring forth to ignite their own path of existence and ...rebirth?