Motion Photo

This picture includes blurred motion, so I used a slow shutter speed to blur the motion of the windmills.

frog tongue

I found this cool tutorial on stumbleupon, and though I'd give it a try. I didn't spend that long on it, so it didn't turn out perfectly....but it's still pretty cool.

Avatar/alger-ego

This assignment was to create an avatar of yourself, or an alter-ego. I chose to make an alter-ego, and chose an angel/devil theme.

Personal Ad

This assignment was to create a business card promoting yourself as a graphic designer. I picked eight of my works, and put a filter on my name and the shapes. I also used a gradient for the shapes.

The Memory Project

This assignment was for The Memory Project, an organization for which art students create portraits for orphaned children around the world, because many of these children don't have any pictures of themselves. I chose a picture of a little girl from Rwanda named Ange to use for my portrait. I added the dogwood flowers in the background because they are the Virginia state flowers, and I wanted to contribute something personal to the portrait, and have it connect to where I (the artist) am from. I think The Memory Project is a really good idea, and am glad to have contributed.

color wheel

This assignment was to make a stencil of a shape and put different patterns and colors in the shape. I chose a nature theme, and used different trees and flowers for my patterns, and a raindrop for my stencil shape. I made each shape black and white, and applied a different colored gradient to each one.

crayola ad

This assignment was to create an ad using photoshop. I made an ad for crayola.

Christopher Clark ARTnews

This assignment was to read through ARTnews magazine and choose an artist who's work inspires us. I chose Christopher Clark, specifically his "ROYO Equus" collection, featuring people with horses. I'm not actually really in to horses, but I really like how all of the paintings in this collection look. I like the use of color, and how you can see the brush strokes. The paintings have a romantic and impressionist style.

faces

This assignment was to take a face and make half of it looks "inside-out," and make it look like a machine. I started playing around with the blond-haired face first, and I didn't add any mechanical stuff, but I thought it looked cool. For the other face, I took the terminator, put it on top, and changed the opacity, and painted pink over it.

impressionist paintings

For this project, we had to take pictures and make adjustments so they look like impressionist-style paintings. I used different filters, photo filters, and brush strokes to achieve this effect.

Comic Strip

For this project, we had to take pictures and create a comic strip. I worked with Julia, and we used a joke we found on the internet for our comic.

panorama

This assignment was to take three picture and put them together to create a panorama effect using Photomerge.

Chairs

This assignment was to reupholster three different chairs using strips or parts of different images all central to one theme or artist and give them shadows. My favorite is the office chair with the maps, which I did last, but I'm posting all three anyway.

midterm

This assignment was the midterm. We had to make a grid of 35 squares and fill some with pictures and use specific tools.

cubism thingy

This was just something I did on my own after I finished a different project. It wasn't an assignment.

kaleidoscope

This assignment was to create an image that gives the effect of looking through a kaleidoscope. We used a youtube tutorial to show us how to create these images. I used a picture of stairs for the first one (my favorite), a poster for vitamin water for the second one, and a picture of a gel window sticker cat for the last one.

Batesville Day 2011

Self Portrait Grid

This assignment was to create a 3x3 grid with different pictures of ourselves, and adjust the images in different ways. I didn't want to overload on color, so I made some of them black & white to balance out the bright colors on the others. I thought it was a fun project and am happy with how it turned out.

Pixlr.com Review

Pixlr.com is a website that allows users to work with a Photoshop-style picture editing program. It has the same toolbar and tool icons as Photoshop, which is useful. Pixlr is kind of a basic version of Photoshop, with less of a variety of options and less precision than Photoshop. However, it does have some different filters that aren't available in Photoshop. Pixlr is a good website for basic Photoshop functions, but it isn't as easy and comfortable to use as Photoshop, and over-all not as good. I would recommend Pixlr for people who don't have Photoshop, but want to edit pictures occasionally for fun and don't want to invest in Photoshop.

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                                            Created on Photoshop^^

                                            Created on Pixlr.com ^^

Grids

For this project, we picked an image and copied it into a grid patter and made each quadrant unique by manipulating the color, effects, etc. I made three different ones. My favorite is the one with the kids and the umbrella, which I made last.

Janitor Sign

This assignment was to create a sign for the janitorial staff at our school.

Visual Puns

Abstract

This assignment was inspired by the movie "My Kid Could Paint That," about a four year old abstract artist. For the two pieces I made for this assignment, I mostly used the brush tool, along with erasers, and the smudge tool. I really liked this assignment because it was different from what we usually do, and was entirely creative. The first drawing was kind of an experiment with using the brush tool, and I like how the second one came out more than the first.

negative space-swan

(oops, I thought I already posted this...)

 This was the same assignment as the silhouette of myself, but we were instructed to also make one of an object or animal. I chose a swan because I thought it would be cool to incorporate textures of feathers and water into the design. I chose to stick to mostly black and white and grays in order to keep it more simple and not distract from the design. I thought this was a cool assignment and am happy with how it turned out.

Negative space-silhouette

This assignment was the same as the assignment for the swan design. We were assigned to do one negative space silhouette of ourselves, and one of an object or animal. For the one of myself, I picked different textures of fabric to fill my silhouette with, and a picture of cherry tree blossoms to fill the tree with. Overall, I am satisfied with how this came out, but I think I like the design and layout of the swan one better.

Pandaguin

For this project, we had to put together parts of different animals together to create a new animal. I put together a panda head, a penguin body, duck feet, and butterfly wings, to create a "pandaguin." I used multiple layers and new tools like the refine edge tool, and replaced parts of the image using content-aware replacement. I think it was a fun and creative project, and I am content with my result.

15 Green Things

For this project, we were given 15 images of the same size and color (green), and were assigned to manipulate their color, size, shape, opacity, etc. to create a new image.

Music Project #2

This is another image I created using the same original music images we were given for the project. For this one, I chose a different background and colored the music notes. I made the music notes stand out more by putting a black one behind each of them. I also used different sizes and opacities for the people and music notes. I like the first image I created better, but thought I would publish both anyway.

Music Project

For this project, we were given images which we manipulated using different layers, colors, and transformations to create a variation of the original. I didn't change the colors of the people or the music notes because I wanted the people to look like shadows, which is why I changed their opacities. I am overall more satisfied with this image than the other one I made.

History Brush: Easter Eggs