#0 BLOG Assignment

ARTIST STATEMENT: I really enjoyed this project, working with video in photoshop. I went through a few trial runs with choosing this video. I had one that involved swimming of fish, a baby on a playground, and ended with this one. I think it turned out fairly well with the exception of tis little blurry hiccup. There is some difficulty when changing the opacity and you can see that in the psd version. When I try to change the second keynote to 0% it either stays at 100 or changes all the keynotes to 0. Other then that I believe the movement of the waves and the standstill of the boats turned out really well.

ARTIST STATEMENT: For my new gradient mesh project, I chose to recreate pink daisy's. Daisy's are my favorite flowers, and normally white I chose the color pink so when creating the mesh, it gives the flower a 3D look. making it look real. I created two types of petals, one having the rows and three columns while the other had 4 rows and three columns. I used the same colors on each point but scattered them differently among the two petals. I wanted to give variety to the flower so each petal didn't look identical to one another. There was no particular placement in which petal went where. I wanted them scattered to look more natural.  

ARTIST STATEMENT: This assignment was something I was really looking forward to altering an image and make it look like a different dimension. The original photo is a selfie of my best friend an I at a music festival, we both have scarves and masks covering our face. The color reflecting off our faces is emphasized by the lights but what draws me to this picture is our big and beautiful brown eyes.     For this project, I created masks around our scarves and eyes. I then put a black and white optical illusion replacing the deleted images so it contrasts well off the colored image. The image itself I wanted to make more bright and bold so I toyed around with the vibrancy and saturation. As well as placing a photo filter of purple on the image to strengthen the colors of the pink and blues. I added text in an American Typewriter font that reads, "It's all in your HEAD." I chose to write a quote there so you can imagine that what you're seeing is all in your head.

ARTIST STATEMENT: As suggested, for my meme project I recycled the photo I used from my poster assignment. In this picture I tried to play off a cute side smirk that shows interest and temptation. I thought it'd be humorous to pair the two together for something fun and playful. At least I do this in real life when I see my server when I'm out to eat. Who doesn't get excited when their food is out and ready to eat.    This project took me less then ten minutes to construct. I slightly cropped the photo. Put an orange photo filter on the image with light density. The white text I used is regular Arial Black with 100pt font size.

Artist Statement: For this project, I used a picture of my friend Nina from New Orleans, cut her out using the pen tool, and placed her body on a picture from a music festival I took last year. To make her appear like she is actually in the original photo, I toyed around with the vibrance tools, saturation, contrast, and saturation.

Artist Statement: For this project, when choosing the required colors I wanted to direct myself towards ones I favored. I also wanted something to compliment the photo as well. Wanted something that would look pretty with the blue waters, the white sand. I paid extra attention to detail in items like my teeth and my eyes.