the photos i am considering for my final 5

WEEK 11

I created this piece today. I have been importing my pictures into painter and working on them with the apply lighting tool. I then played with the contrast and bright tools, the selection tools, cloner and now a smudge tool to help blend those sharp edges. The pictures are starting to come together and look like a real series, I am still developing the presentation ideas for the pieces but at this stage I am thinking about making the pictures a large scale photo series. I have modified the lighting in the picture again and made it just that little bit brighter to really bring out the features of the model as I felt before it was too dark and details were being missed. i have also put in a close up photo i have taken of Emmy and modified using the same tools as above all though this is a really nice photo I'm not sure if i will be using it in my final 5 pieces. i have also included the photo of emmy standing with one arm out. the same creative process was used with this photo and i believe its very successful. i really like the composition of the two figures and the tonal highlights in the picture. i really like how its very simple photo but the deatil is amazing.

week 10

I have completed 2 pieces of work today and i am pleased with what i have achieved. the first one i have attached has been edited in Corelle painter. i have used the clone tool, lighting and contrast and brightness settings to achieve this result. i had to edit the clone sources to a particular size before i could include them. the second is similar in the creative process and is clearly a part of a series. i really like how the photos are a little over exposed but very dark at the same time. i wanted to show the subject this way to convey the idea she is in a world consumed with only her self which can be a dark raw and real feeling. an artist that has kind of inspired my lighting style is Bill Henson. Henson uses very low lighting in his art work but highlight his subjects with light therefore standing out on the background. Henson's work has been seen as controversial is the past due to his subject matter but the quality of the work is undeniable.

Week 9

i did a photo shoot with my friend Emmy as the model. i used a digital SLR camera and found i got some great results. here are some of the photos i took above. i used a setting on the camera to only highlight certain colours. i edited the photos in painter and cloned in Emmy onto one photo 5 times. i found that my theme has deffinitly developed into some thing solid. i want to use the photos from the shoot to symbolise emmy is in a world consumed with only her self so ill be looking at including multiple emmys in finalised shots and also working the photos to a professional standard. some thing i have to think about is how am i going to display the photos. i also have filmed some fotage of the shoot i plan to edit in the next week.

week 8 - the moving image

this week Jenna asked us to find a video artist on the web site www.videoartworld.com that we found interesting. i found an artist called Garry Hill who bases most of his art on text and its relationship with electronic image. this is some infomation i found on the website about garry hill i found interesting
"His reading of the writings of Maurice Blanchot, in particular, provided him with ideas relating to the way in which language impinges on phenomenological experience, and a notion of 'the other' stemming from the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas. Such reading informs Hill's visual-poetic explorations of the interrelationships between language, image, identity, and the body." (http://www.videoartworld.com/beta/artist_651.html) the picture i like the best is called Rome, Flavian Amphitheater, June 11 2005it is shown above.

i have also decided i will be modifying my theme this week. i know for my video presentation i want to use areas in my home town called Montsalvat and the old aqueduct along with a friend to use as a model in the moving art. i don't want to give too much away of what I'm hoping to achieve but the idea has developed into a kind of forgotten bride type situation where a girl is dressed in a beautiful gown in an unfamiliar location completely alone and visibly upset.

week 7

Today we were continued using Corelle painter and using drawing tablets i used both the mouse and drawing tablets as the effects i wanted i could achieve with the mouse. This week i used the clone tool heaps i created a collage using 2 different sets of images and then combined them using the clone tool i also used the magic wand and paint bucket tools to create the finished back ground of the collage. I have began to use text alot in my art work and i think it works well. The picture on the left is supposed to be what a this couple see inside their mind. at the start the text just says ME ME ME and then goes to YOU ME YOU repeated 3 times but finishes again saying ME ME ME meaning that the person thinks at the beginning and end of every relationship about them selves. they all though are consumed with the idea of the other person but more often than not consumed with them selves more. the picture below was the back ground i created to use in the collage this was really fun to make and i found really built the idea up from just involving text. the incorporation of the photography gives the audience and insight into where the text thoughts are coming from.

Week 6

today we were introduced to Corelle painter nd used drawing tablets, this was interesting i found it difficult to move and draw pictures whilst looking at the screen as im used to looking at the paper. i really like the clone tool and used that a couple of times to have a play with the program i also like the watercolour tool and found i used it to create back grounds. i dont think i would use a drawing tablet in the future to draw detailed pictures however i think i would use it to create backgrounds with corelle painter for me to use as a base for other art works.

Week 5

this week we looked a collage, it was interesting to see how artist had translated the ideas of more traditional collage artist into a digital medium. i really liked Jonathon Baker's work i thought it was really interesting that he set out to use a website to bring his work to a broader audience. as a class we used photo shop, i found this really difficult to understand and know i need to develop my skills with practice i could become more efficient with the program. i find understanding what the different tools do difficult to remember and i don't understand how to use layers. the collage attached i have created at at a later class as i have learnt how to use different programs and skills within those to be able to use the tools in a productive way. i really enjoyed making a collage and i have included a more detailed description of this in week 7 blog entry

Week 4

Today we looked at manipulating photos using photo shop. i created a photo with a word definition on it. i have chosen to focus my art work on the theme of "Relationships" i have started with a selfish type of look at relationships and have used text and photo to create a picture. I am finding it difficult to navigate through photoshop but persistance has helped me achieve what i believe is a finished work at this stage.

week 3

We created art using our mobile phones today. I used a photo I had on my phone I took and blue toothed it to the computer and then used the illustrator program on the computer to duplicate it in a layered tile and then used the text idea i had from last week to make the words "me you" repeat over the picture. i found it much easier to get my head around using a mac computer i struggled last week and this week i find im absorbing more infomation on how to use this product and also find im working at a much faster rate. i have a better idea of what i want my over all theme for my art works to be and find im developing this more and more over time and looking forward to seeing what i produce over the next few weeks. i worked on mobile phone art at home and i have used the edit settings on my phone to create a picture i think i will use as one of my final pieces of art work. it is black and what and i have used the bightness and contrast tools on my phone to edit the photo also useing the phones built in frames

Week 2

Our class learnt about using text in digital art. We used the program 'Publisher' to create this art. i did have a lot of difficulty using the program and understanding the use of the different tools. Some thing i found interesting whilst we were covering this topic of text art was how big the text digital art was becoming in the art industry, I googled and researched further this idea and noticed a web site called Deviantart.com and found 2 artist i really liked. The artists are called mou5e and cooldesignvn on the web site and both have created very different types of text art, the two pieces i found that i liked are available on the web site mou5e art was called 'gun' and cooldesgnvn art was called a passoniate kiss. One is extremely detailed and the other is very direct in its message but not built with hundreds and hundreds of letters and numbers. I am looking forward to developing the art i created last lesson into a finish work in my next session. I created a picture using illustrator using just text and colour. The picture i created is just the words me you repeated over and over again and i have used the colour pink to highlight a statement in the words of "I love me". This is a reflection on relationships today, the words me you repeated over and over are meant to symbolise relationships and the way they go back and forth and become repetitious. The statement "I love me" is meant to show that most of the time these days people have relationships and can love some one but generally love them selves more.

Week One

First week of an Introduction Into Digital Art at VU. I am really looking forward to learning how to use all the amazing programs mac computers have to offer. I found an Interesting video on Rhizome.org called 'White Glove Tracking' in our class today. I found this video interesting as it showed me another form of art that i hadnt seen before that was really out of the box. The people who had created the idea wanted to track all of the times that Michael Jacksons white glove is shown in a world famous video of a live proformance of 'Billy Jean' and then create an online gallery to showcase this. The creators put the idea to the public to assist tracking white gloves and had a very overwhelming response, within 72 hours 125,000 gloves had been located, the information can be found at http://whiteglovetracking.com/. I found this very interesting that so many people were interested in being involved in this process and that this digital art could have that effect on people.