Final Project
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In our final assignment we had the choice of working in the style of any project we had done the whole semester. This included photomontages, soundscapes, blogs, scratch films, and videos.
I chose to create another blog page. On our original blog page we had included all of the work from our Time Arts class that semester, with an essay describing the process, goals, and meaning in each piece. On my new blog page I wanted to include all the work from my other art classes, and high school work that was included in my college portfolio. As I have a bulk of work, an essay describing each piece would not be appropriate. Thus, I decided that little blurbs that either described process or meaning in about 4-5 sentences would be better. Some work, such as figure studies and still lifes, did not even need an explanation.
Creating the blogpage was not especially difficult, it was simply time consuming. First I had to photograph all of my work. Over thanksgiving break I was able to photograph all of my high school work that I wanted to include. I took the pictures around noon so that natural light could be used instead of the flash of my camera. The images were therefore closer to the actual color of the artwork. Although I do not own a professional camera, it is a simple Samsung s500 digital camera that only cost $170, I was very happy with the way the images turned out. The artwork that did not photograph well were those that were in plastic sheaths. The light made reflections on the plastic that took away from the work. In the future, I will take the artwork out of the plastic sheaths to photograph them. In all photographing the work probably took me 4.5-6 hours.
The next step was to upload the images onto the blog page. This was a little difficult because when you upload the images they are shown in text format as a series of letters and symbols. If I wanted to organize the artwork in a particular order, or add a blurb of text, I could not tell which pieces were which. I ended up having to “View my Blog” and then write down on a piece of paper what order the images showed up in. I could then go back to editing and arrange them as I desired. For example, I would write that “Duck” was third from the top on the blog page. Once in editing, I would cut the text and symbol combination that was third from the top and place it where I wanted. This in particular, made the process of creating the blogpage very time consuming.
What I really enjoyed was being able to show my process through a series of photos on the blogpage. For example, in my 2d foundations class I created an image that was representative of a newspaper article. Creating the final image was the result of many steps. I first found an image of an Asian mask in a book at the library, I included this image on the blogpage. The next step was scanning this image into the computer while moving it around which produced really interesting distortions. On the blogpage I showed some of the examples of distortions that could be created this way. Then next step I showed was using a plastic bag filled with water, shaken up to have many bubbles, and placing on top of a distorted image. The result was a person that looked under water. This as I explained was the process that created the final image (seen first at the top of the blogpage). The process of how an artist creates their work is always very interesting, and although many artists like to keep their process secret, I enjoyed writing about how I created such an image without a computer program such as Photoshop. Showing the process also clues a viewer into how long one single piece of artwork can take, which people other than artists do not always realize.
Creating a blogpage of all of my artwork made me very proud. It is a relief that I can have all of it up on a webpage for many reasons. To begin, its great to have photographs of all of my work, now even if the original work gets damaged or lost I have a picture of it. Second, its so convenient to have all of my work in one place and on the Internet, this makes my work accessible to whoever I choose. For job purposes and simply showing an interested person my work, this blogpage will be great.
In our final assignment we had the choice of working in the style of any project we had done the whole semester. This included photomontages, soundscapes, blogs, scratch films, and videos.
I chose to create another blog page. On our original blog page we had included all of the work from our Time Arts class that semester, with an essay describing the process, goals, and meaning in each piece. On my new blog page I wanted to include all the work from my other art classes, and high school work that was included in my college portfolio. As I have a bulk of work, an essay describing each piece would not be appropriate. Thus, I decided that little blurbs that either described process or meaning in about 4-5 sentences would be better. Some work, such as figure studies and still lifes, did not even need an explanation.
Creating the blogpage was not especially difficult, it was simply time consuming. First I had to photograph all of my work. Over thanksgiving break I was able to photograph all of my high school work that I wanted to include. I took the pictures around noon so that natural light could be used instead of the flash of my camera. The images were therefore closer to the actual color of the artwork. Although I do not own a professional camera, it is a simple Samsung s500 digital camera that only cost $170, I was very happy with the way the images turned out. The artwork that did not photograph well were those that were in plastic sheaths. The light made reflections on the plastic that took away from the work. In the future, I will take the artwork out of the plastic sheaths to photograph them. In all photographing the work probably took me 4.5-6 hours.
The next step was to upload the images onto the blog page. This was a little difficult because when you upload the images they are shown in text format as a series of letters and symbols. If I wanted to organize the artwork in a particular order, or add a blurb of text, I could not tell which pieces were which. I ended up having to “View my Blog” and then write down on a piece of paper what order the images showed up in. I could then go back to editing and arrange them as I desired. For example, I would write that “Duck” was third from the top on the blog page. Once in editing, I would cut the text and symbol combination that was third from the top and place it where I wanted. This in particular, made the process of creating the blogpage very time consuming.
What I really enjoyed was being able to show my process through a series of photos on the blogpage. For example, in my 2d foundations class I created an image that was representative of a newspaper article. Creating the final image was the result of many steps. I first found an image of an Asian mask in a book at the library, I included this image on the blogpage. The next step was scanning this image into the computer while moving it around which produced really interesting distortions. On the blogpage I showed some of the examples of distortions that could be created this way. Then next step I showed was using a plastic bag filled with water, shaken up to have many bubbles, and placing on top of a distorted image. The result was a person that looked under water. This as I explained was the process that created the final image (seen first at the top of the blogpage). The process of how an artist creates their work is always very interesting, and although many artists like to keep their process secret, I enjoyed writing about how I created such an image without a computer program such as Photoshop. Showing the process also clues a viewer into how long one single piece of artwork can take, which people other than artists do not always realize.
Creating a blogpage of all of my artwork made me very proud. It is a relief that I can have all of it up on a webpage for many reasons. To begin, its great to have photographs of all of my work, now even if the original work gets damaged or lost I have a picture of it. Second, its so convenient to have all of my work in one place and on the Internet, this makes my work accessible to whoever I choose. For job purposes and simply showing an interested person my work, this blogpage will be great.
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