Final Project : Do You Have Eyes To See?

     This work is a combination of my artistic ideas and my fathers beautiful work. I scanned a piece that my father illustrated, and printed it out. I then destroyed the prints by ripping and burning them. Then I scanned them back on to the computer and put the pictures back together in Adobe Photoshop.
     The concept o fbeauty in destruction is very important in my eyes. I managed to transform a fairly new piece of work to look like it has been through years and years of destruction. The words in the poem seem to  match with the piece when said, "Before this dream fades and the words fade and the colors fade." The burned edges and ripped pieces make it seem as though the picture is fading.
     I wanted to use my inspiration in art (my father) in my piece and throw what I have learned along with it. There is a blend of older styles and more modern styles and showing the beauty in mixing the two. The old look of the originally drawn piece combined with the use of Photoshop is an example of the clash of the two different kinds of media used. The decision to print smaller is to keep a more intimate feel with the photo do that details can be appreciated as they are and not to be distorted.

Work In Progress

•   What kind of mood/message are you attempting to communicate?   I want to communicate the mood of beauty in destruction. The pictures have been ripped and burned but still seem to have a beauty to them.

•   What other elements do you plan to add to your piece or in what ways are you planning

            to refine it?  I have one more piece to put with it which is the last part of the poem to complete it

• What size will you print your piece and why? I am thinking just printing it about 16x5 to keep it smaller and more intimate and I would present them vertically .

• Do you have alternative plans for finished presentation?  Not really, I would like to mat and frame them though.

• What kind of feedback are you looking for from your classmates? What size do you guys think i should print it?

Changed My Mind

Ok, so I'm keeping the whole ripping burning and scanning process but instead of using pictures of people, I am going to use one of the drawings and writings my father made.

Final Project Proposal

For the final project, I am thinking about getting portraits of people, print them then rip them, burn along the edges of the ripped pieces then scan the pieces and attempt to piece the portrait back together in Photoshop. Yeaaa.....that's all I have. Sounds good, hope it come out even better.

Muybridge Animation

For this assignment, I had a couple ideas, but I resulted in using photos that I took of my nephew Carter last weekend. I used two different pictures of him to show his different face expressions. I also threw the Winnie the Pooh in there because Carter's room is filled with Pooh and it kind of looked cute floating up like it is. All I did was select the photos and rotate them back and forth throughout the frames. I updated the Muybridge frames by adding a baby, which is kind of like updating...I think so lol but, in the modern generation, with technology, this simple horse can be changed many ways probably mostly to advertise. I wanted to do a fun  GIFF. This could be used as a party invitation or something. I dont know really. I really love my nephew and I wanted him incorporated in this assignment because I haven't put him in any other assignments (bad auntie Katie!).

Mapping Assignment

I decided not to make any changes to my work in progress. From seeing your comments, I am satisfied with what I have. Well, this is a map of basically, the first zoos and aquariums that popped up when I searched top zoos and aquariums in the United States. The circles that have a black dots are zoos and circles that have purple dots are aquariums. There was no specific color preference, just some colors I chose. Although, green is more land (zoo) and blue is more water (aquariums). If you look, you will notice that some dots have layers. those are the numbers of zoos or aquariums in that particular city. Where the dots are placed are hoe many are in that particular state. I decided to not show the actual outline of the United States map to give a kind of mysterious feel. It was very interesting that even though you cannot visually see the outline of the map, the dots form a good look of it. Just to be straight about it, these ARE NOT ALL of the zoos and aquariums in the United States. If i was to do that, it would be filled to capacity. This is based off of first search on Google.

Work In Progress

This....is what i have so far. It shows major zoos and aquariums in the United States. This is based on what first popped up in my Google search bar. Not sure if I like it at all. This assignment is not catching my imagination and its pissing me off. Help Help Help! What do you think?

Mapping Assignment

For the mapping assignment, I want to some way visually show major aquariums and zoos in America. I'm not quite sure how I'm going to do this. But, just know....something is gonna happen.....

Assignment 2

      To construct the image, I took the facial features of 15 different rappers and put them together. I used Googled photos of each artist. I took small features from each picture to prevent copyright issues because by looking at the small features that I took out of the original picture, you can not tell what picture I used.

     I wanted to convey the mood of peoples opinions on who their "favorite rappers". I wanted to bring all of those favorite rappers together. I did three faces simply by skin tones. From left to right, the skin tones go from the lightest face to the darkest. The rappers used in this image are:

     First Face: Eyebrow-T.I.  Left Eye-Wiz Khalifa  Right Eye- J. Cole  Nose-Cudi  Mouth- Drake
    
     Middle Face: Eyebrow- Nas  Left Eye- Kendrick Lamar  Right Eye- Young Jeezy  Nose- Tupac         
     Mouth- Jay Z

     Last Face: Eyebrow- Andre 3000 Left Eye- Biggie Smalls Right Eye- Lil Wayne Nose- Kanye West
     Mouth- Wale

Work In Progress

This is what i have so far. I'm pretty satisfied with it mostly so i cant wait to finish it!

This picture is a combination of hip hop artists Jay- Z and Kanye West. Sorta on the creepy side. This picture was kind of my influence on what i wanted to do even though mine will look nothing like this.

Social/Media Critique

    What is the concept behind your project?- The concept is to blend different featues from diferent hip hop artists to produce a whole new face.

   Why does this particular subject matter interest you?-Many people have their favorite hip hop artists and it just interests me to see many of those artists put together in a certain way.

   Describe, in detail, how you plan to communicate this concept visually.- I have a total of 24 rap artists, and thereare aproximately about 7-8 major features on a face. I will create 3 faces. The combination of artists will be based on their skin tones. I will then take features from each of them to form a completely different face that looks nothing like just one of the artists. Then under the faces, I will give the list of rap artists on each face, basically to make it like a guessing game of what features belong to who.

   What types of images do you plan to appropriate?  How will you borrow without violating copyright law?- I plan on taking the features from clear face shots of the artists. I will borrow without violating copyright law because I am taking small features from the pictures so that you will never quite know what the orginal picture looks like.

    Which artists/thinkers/writers have influenced your ideas?- My over all influence is a picture of basically, a combination of hip hop artists Jay-Z and Kanye West. And also Nancy Burson, who almost morphs faces together to create new faces.

Copyrights & Art Article

    The article is explaining basically the laws to using someone elses piece of work. The system is broken into three choices of using somebody elses work. The three choices are; freeware, copyright protected material, and photos in the public domain. Freeware is free works of copyrighted material. Copyright protected material is material that you have to pay for in order to use. Photographs in the public domain are pictures in libraries, on the internet etc. Th article talks about the privacy and publicity laws and having to get permission to use another persons piece of work to combine with our own. The whole concept to me is still quite confusing so that is the best summary i could get. It is very interesting, the most simple things have the most rules and laws to using or sharing.

Assignment 1 Psychological Self-Portrait

    This here, is the completed version of my psychological self-portrait. this is kind of hard to explain really. I wanted the picture to convey the piece of me that seems to grow as the days go, my love for art. this, was a very simple way of showing it.
     I used a combination of my fathers artwork that he has made for me recently and photos that i have taken. The dream catcher is one of my fathers pieces that he made himself that i scanned onto the computer. also, the patches and circles are kind of like, snippets of a cloth that he painted. The camera is one of my old film cameras that i decided to take a picture of. The paintbrush and paints were out for another project i had but i loved the way they were placed. In the left corner, is my buckeye necklace because that's what i am! GO BUCKS!
   
     I feel like this picture can describe me because the bright colors and patterns. My mother always tells me "you're a very bright girl, remember that". Me being "bright" has led to me getting to Ohio State and working on my major in fine art in photography. All of the jumbles of art in my mind will some day help me live out my dreams. So, with that explanation, I feel like the picture is a good self-portrait of me. Hope you guys like :)

Self Portrait

This here, is what i have so far for my self portrait. My creative juices are still working with this one and my layers on photoshop were spazzing out on me so i had to stop here for now. Any suggestions?

Christiane Paul Reading

Three Artists that stood out to me in the reading were :

1. Charles Csuri- I like how he blends colors and gives a bright appearance to them. He also gives a cool three-dimensional look to his work.

2. Casey Williams- I enjoy nature, so her art of the water catches my eye. the reflections off of the water is very eye catching. It is very interesting how she puts the water in all of her work.

3. Carl Fudge- His work is very eye catching because it is more abstract. The color he adds to the art gives it a warm feeling and it seems like the colors are flowing together

Hmph, weird all of the artists I liked names started with the letter C. Just wanted to add that fun fact :)

George Rush : Darker with the Day : Interpret the artwork

     I feel like the meaning of the artwork is to show the change of shadows in the day and how some things change and some stay the same. The dark tones give more of a depressed theme to the series, but i can appreciate why Rush chose black and white. To me, black and white makes you focus in more on the concept of the paintings. it gives a mysterious feel. The series makes me wonder if this is supposed to be showing a part of somebody's life without the person actually in the series.

Questions:

Do you thing the painting would have more or less meaning if you put a living thing in it? Ex human, cat, dog?

Would color have effected the purpose of the series?

Why just 5 pieces? Why not more?

George Rush : Darker with the Day :Describe the artwork

    The name of the exhibition was "Darker with the Day" by artist George Rush. The work was created with acrylic paint on canvas. The series was made with lots of black, whit, and grey tones with very sharp lines and shadows. The subject of the series is basically showing a table, with simple, every day objects on it in front of a window. Three of the five pieces show the same table in front of the window and the outside seems to be getting darker. The shades of the outside change. The other two pieces are a window that gives a "looking in" perspective, where through the window is dark and a window that gives a "looking outside" perspective, as though the viewer is looking outside of the window. Some of the viewers were not quite attracted to the theme of the series. The darker tones seemed to give off a "depressing" look and feel.

Optimism/Pessimism

Katie