Silk Painting

In this silk painting, I focused on the color theory, with the warm colors, and cool colors switching off. I also added a border to draw the eye into the sun. In the sky, I added salt to add texture to the top. I really liked how it turned out, with the colors blending together.

Weekly Challenge #8

This week, for my weekly challenge, I photographed my "opposite". My "opposite" is nature photography, and being photo pure because I usually do a lot with Photoshop and editing. I tried to focus a lot on selective focus in the sunset. Overall, these images turned out pretty good; I really like how some have great color, and others have great focus on one plant/object.

Weekly Challenge #7

Field Trip to Boulder

This is one of the pillars inside of the tea house.

This is the ceiling design in the tea house.

This is the Court House of Boulder. I really like the trees kind of framing the building.

This is one of the son's of the creator of the tea house repainting the designs on the outside. It was awesome to be able to see him working. He is doing this for the entire tea house.

Weekly Challenge #6

This is the first image I have created on Adobe Illustrator. It was difficult to create all the layers and connect the words with the lines at first, but after I finished, it turned out to be a great design.

Weekly Challenge #5

My weekly challenge this week was Food Art. I decided to get creative, and designed a background scenery along with little people. The first image is a close up of a group of 3 little people sitting around a campfire. To create the little people, I cut pieces of celery, put a mini marshmallow on each of them, and stuck toothpicks cut in half on each side to create the arms. I added the eyes and mouth on Photoshop. The campfire is made of a normal size marshmallow with pieces of cut pretzel in it. The second image is a close up of the 'marshmallow berry-pickers'. There is one adult 'marshmallow berry picker' and one young 'marshmallow berry picker', who are coming back from picking 'marshmallow berries' in the little forest. The final image is a view of the entire piece. There is an igloo in the middle, a 'marshmallow berry' forest to the left, and a pile of wood to the right. The igloo is made of marshmallows and toothpicks, the 'marshmallow berries' are made of one mini marshmallow shoved into a raspberry, and the pile of wood is made of pretzels cut into small pieces. To create a snowy effect, I shaved ice and put it on the ground. 

Narrative Project

My narrative project was based on the theme/story of Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil. In order to get these shots, I went into a dark room, and set a long shutter speed. Then, on Photoshop, I added the smoke - from my own shots, only a couple of them are brushes. I tried to tie together these 4 pictures by adding the same color tones and adding the smoke around the sides.

Weekly Challenge #4

This week, I worked on smoke photography. To get this image, I burned a piece of paper outside at night, and took the picture of the smoke after blowing it out. It was difficult, but fun to take!

20 Layers Project

I really enjoyed working on this project, with all the different layers. It was different, but cool to do all this on a record. In this, I tried to include a tying theme together - the moon, stars, and galaxy. Overall, I think it was successful. Looking to the left side, I tried to make a crescent moon shape with foil, and outlined that with a piece of string. On top of this, I made little paper stars with various colors. Then, in the center, I wrapped a CD in foil, and made it look like a full moon. On the right side, I traced my hand, wrote LOVE on a transparency, and cut it out. Near the bottom, I created a heart by "connecting the dots" of foil with a hot glue gun. Throughout the entire record, there are clumps of sparkles representing the stars. Finally, after photographing this, I made a few edits on Photoshop by darkening the outlines of the moons, and adjusting the brightness. Working with 20 layers was different, but fun in the end!

Weekly Challenge #3

My weekly challenge for this week was to focus on, and produce images using HDR (High Dynamic Range). In order to produce these images, I first took 3 pictures (under-exposed, just right, and over-exposed) by changing the shutter speed. Then, I merged the three images on Photoshop, and increased the contrast a little bit. I decided to take pictures of these specific objects because I feel like HDR fits in with antique feel. These three images turned out how I envisioned they would. Surprisingly after this week, I actually really enjoy creating images with HDR.

Weekly Challenge #2

This was my second weekly challenge, picking a project from a former art class that I liked. The flash animation project was a project in Digital Art & Photography 1, using Macromedia Flash to create a mini movie. This flash animation had a lot of detail in it, with lots of movement and different layers. I am happy with how it turned out, because it turned out better than I expected. Everything was created on Macromedia Flash.

Weekly Challenge #1

This was one of my weekly challenges, which focuses on the topic of "Two Opposing Emotions: Create Conflict!" In this image, I am trying to show that there can be tears of sadness and tears of happiness/joy. In order to show this, I took close up pictures of my sister, and posterized her mouth. Then, I adjusted the brightness of her mouth: darker for sadness, and brighter for happiness/joy. For the tear, I drew it in my sketchbook, scanned it in, and colored it and outlined it in Photoshop. Finally, I framed each of the pictures to add more detail to the picture.

Summer Artwork #1

This summer, I went to Beaver Creek and took this picture of a flower I found while hiking. On Photoshop, I increased the contrast to make the colors more bold, and bring out the pink on the flower. Then, I added a vignette to add to the image by making the viewer focus more on the flower. I really liked how the flower was the only thing in focus, and the background was out of focus.

Summer Artwork #2

Despicable Me is one of my favorite movies, and I thought it would be cool to draw one of the characters from it. I drew this minion in my sketchbook, and then I colored it on Photoshop. To make the image bolder, I also outlined the image on Photoshop. It was really fun sketching, then coloring the image on Photoshop, even though it took a lot of time and focus on detail.