Digital Influence

I created the images below to portray the idea of digital influence. The first depicts a women wearing sunglasses. I replaced the lenses with a screen shot of the Facebook log in page. The word "labeled" is written on the forehead as a way of calling attention to the digital social world. Many kids experience labels due to posts or comments they have made in the digital world. The second image is taken from renaissance artwork. The idea is to mix the old with new and to provoke thoughts on the age of technology. I added the cell phone and text to portray the idea of kids texting at the dinner table and the reaction that adults have.

"labeled"

"Its dinner time not texting time"

Working With Hue

Before

After

Hybrid

Our most recent project was to experiment with the scanner as a tool for art. From the scans that each student produced, we choose specific elements and combined them into one piece of artwork. This hybrid photo was created using a variety of Photoshop techniques. Mainly they included the lasso, free transform, and other effects to create drop-shadows or overlays. 

I would like to experiment more with this concept with more of my own photos. I find it a good technique to overlay an existing photo with a pattern.

Girl, he totally just scanned you

   A scanner can be used as an instrument of art. Below are various images in which I utilized a scanner it hopes of capturing various mediums.

My first image is fairly straight forward. The scanner was used to simply scan a picture. I wanted to pick up on the detail of the brush strokes.

This selection has some explanation to go along with it. While I took a semester abroad in Pondicherry, India, I participated in a Classical South Indian Dance class. "Mudras" are various hand gestures that are used during the dance as a sort of sign language (i.e. telling the story). This mudra (in English) is known as the bee mudra. I would have liked the scan to come out a bit better, but 3D objects let in light unless one has a black cloth to put overtop.

This is also a mudra, known as the Shivum mudra because it represents the lord Shiva in the Hindu faith.

Earrings

Flowers and earrings

Flowers but with a bit of modern art thrown in with the use of lines

Even more flowers....tired of them yet?

Petals from the lovely flowers, with some water droplets

A more simple version. Just an array of petals sorted by color.

Time to change from floral inspiration. A quick painting of tear drops on a tissue, which I then crinkled.

Back to Basics: pixel images

   Pixel imaging has made an emergence once again as an indie video game trend. With older TV sets, the condition of the resolution allowed for pixel imaging to appear fuzzy, therefore not giving detail to the bits and pieces it was compiled of. Now, with higher resolution, the pixel video game trend has given a nostalgic feeling to anyone that remembers the "good old days." One is now able to view the individual pixels in all their glory. Above is my attempt at creating a pixel image as it may appear in a simplistic video game. Using only the pencil tool in Photoshop, I created faded effects on some of the objects just to give in a nice flare. The actual size of the image is quite small so I had to enlarge it.