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.