TITLE
Emilie

PROJECT
Portrait/ Photo Collage

SIZE
4x6

MEDIUM
Photograph

RESOURCES
No resources used

INTRODUCTION
My goal was to create a picture using a series of small photos on Adobe Photoshop.

DEVELOPMENT

I took the photograph using a Canon digital SLR camera.

Using the selection tool on Adobe Photoshop, I cut the photo into several smaller 4x6 photos, and placed each individual photo on its own layer.

I then scaled and rotated each of the individual photos to create a collage effect.

TITLE
Autumn

PROJECT
Typographic Art

SIZE
Tabloid (11x17)

MEDIUM
Different lines, fonts, colours, shapes, and gradient effects.

RESOURCES
Font “Throw My Hands Up In The Air” taken from www.dafont.com

INTRODUCTION
My goal was to create a picture of a tree depicting autumn using Adobe Illustrator, made entirely out of typography.

DEVELOPMENT

Using the “Blob Brush Tool”, I drew a series of lines that resembled the shape of a tree.

I took words and phrases from various poems, song lyrics, quotes, and typographic artwork with an autumn theme.

I then used the “Type on a Path Tool” to type the words and phrases I had chosen along the lines that I had already drawn.

I changed the colours of the words to resemble the colours of a tree.

I created a brown and blue gradient background to represent the ground and the sky, and placed it behind the tree.

REFLECTION

To create my artwork, I used techniques such as typing on a line and changing colours to create the shape of a tree. Before I made the tree, I wanted to create the New York City skyline out of typography. This idea did not work because after an entire week of working on the piece, I hadn’t even finished half of it yet. To create the tree, I used letters of different proportions, emphasized certain components by changing their colours, and used a variety of different lines. I used warm colours in the tree and cool colours for the background to create contrast. I added the background to bring everything together and make it all one picture, instead of a collage of words.

TITLE
Faces

PROJECT
Surrealism

SIZE
8x6

MEDIUM
Photographs

RESOURCES

Nevit Dilmen, 2006, “Mardin Miniaturk”, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mardin_stone_houses_02148.jpg

All images of faces taken from Google Images.

No original photography was used in this piece.

INTRODUCTION
My goal was to create an unrealistic scene using Adobe Photoshop.

DEVELOPMENT

I chose the photo of the stone houses to use as the main photo.

I then chose several pictures of faces, and placed each on their own layer.

I adjusted the opacity of the faces and erased the parts that I didn’t need so that they would blend in with the buildings and give the impression that the buildings had faces.

TITLE
Ty

PROJECT
3 Dimensional Photo Sculpture

SIZE
N/A

MEDIUM
Photographs, foam, glue, paint

RESOURCES

No resources used.

INTRODUCTION
My goal was to create a 3 dimensional sculpture using photos.

DEVELOPMENT

The photos were taken using a digital SLR camera.

The head was sculpted out of planter’s foam.

The photographs were printed and cut into geometric shapes.  They were then glued onto the foam.

The spaces between the photos were painted white.