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Now for the contemporary side... 

 

Craft: Who even knew this was a piece of art? I sure did not. It was titled as a hat rack. It was hanging from the ceiling and I liked how the shadow bounced off the art.

 

Composition: I liked how the different images and color mixtures and different shapes abstracted with each other.

 

This concept was cool to me because of the chimney coming out of the roof. The idea was something that would not have been seen before that time. 

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The Art Institute Tour started with a welcome from our tour guide Prof. Peck!

Clearly I was excited to see the European Art Before 1900 side of the museum.

A glimpse of the cool staircase and the architecture.

Concept: I liked the idea of this next painting of Jesus and John because this image makes a lot of sense even though that actual scene is not mentioned in the Bible.

Craft: This marble structure caught my eye immediately. The subject was one that that was completely different than the others. The shiny black marble made the African depiction even more memorable and the specific cuts and angles made it look all the more real.

  
This next image was gorgeous and immediately caught my attention. I thought the composition was interesting because you got closer to the image the colors began to look like a blur. The image was created and structured to be looked at from afar.

 

 

Week 7 Escaping from Ordinary Radio

 

Craft: I created squarish rectangle shapes on a piece of notebook paper with a black pen and drew different image sketches inside of the boxes. I looked at different images(radios, bars, handcuffs) to re-create the images for myself.

Composition: In the first and fourth image I made the radio the main idea by placing it in the center. In the second image I wanted to viewer to focus more on being trapped. In the third image the road was placed in the center the viewer could see the escape route.

Concept: In the first image someone is supposed to be escaping out of a radio. In the second image a person is trapped by earphones that look like handcuffs to symbolize being trapped by music. In the third image a person is is leaving behind wahat is represented as old radio to go to new radio. In the fourth image a person is behind the bars of a radio/jail to show being trapped by a radio and wanting to escape.

Week #5 Printing Process

Step by Step Process

1) Open document

2) Go to Image Size & Canvas Size and make sure it reads as 11 inches wide/ 17 inches tall/ and a 300 resolution

3)Go to File: Print

4) Change Printer to Xerox

5)Go to page setup: Choose Xerox, Choose Tabloid, Pick right Orientation, Scale should be 100%

6) Press Print but make sure its sent to tray 2

Week #6 Collage (Composition Focus)



Consistencies: Fruit as a subject and at least one piece of fruit having a change of hue in each one/

Variable: Type of fruit, color of the hue diffrences, number of fruits in each, postition.

Craft: Cut out images of different fruits (apples, oranges, bananas) copied and compiled into collages.

Compostion: Apple Pic: I made different layers of one apple picture like with week #4. I resized one apple to fit the majority of the background. I changed the hue of the background to make it stand out more. Oranges Pic: I made same size layers of one picture of an orange. I arranged the the oranges so that they took up the entire picture. I changed the hue of two different oranges in the background. Bananas Pic: After cutting out a picture of a banana on a table, I made different same size layers. I changed the hue of a background picture and made it a darker grey. Next, I rotated the picture so the bananas could be vertical.

Concept: I just continued with the theme of collages of fruit with one or two that stand out.

Week #4 Collage

Craft: Cut out pictures of apples copied and altered.

Composition: In Photoshop, I opened up a picture of an apple sitting on the hand of a statue from my previous 2nd blog post. Next, I used the eraser tool to erase all the background and only left the apple remaining. I saved the image of the remaining apple, at the highest quality. Next, I went to the top of the photoshop screen under the layer tab and began to make four different duplicate layers. I used the resizing tool to alter the size of each image without changing its form. I moved the apples around until they covered the entire screen in the style that I wanted. Finally, I saved the image as is and took a screen capture.

Concept: I just wanted to create an apple collage. A viewer might think of the phrase "the apple of my eye". I figured either the one in the middle would be looked at first or the one in the background.

Week #3 Re-Shoot Out of Place



Craft: A pink highlighter that was placed into a toothbrusher holder with toothbrushes and toothpaste.

Composition: I shot the picture looking down but placed the highlighter in the middle so it could be in the center of the viewer's eyes. The surrounding objects help the setting appear to be a bathroom.

Concept: The highlighter in the toothbrush holder was the odd one out. My photo shoot consisted of things out of their normal setting.