Final Blog

During Spring Break I went to Pittsburgh to visit my older brother who was away studying at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. While in the city I became very inspired by the structure and shape of the city as well as the energy and diversity of cultures and people there. When I returned I was originally going to use these images to complete my concentration. As I went through the images I found alot that I really liked. I wanted these images to express the color and diversity of the city as well as match the rest of concentration pieces resulting in the bright colors and changes that I made on photoshop. After I made these images I made the decision to replace my concentration with these images completely in order to increase the quality level as well as make the set more cohesive. My former concentration pieces that were my personal favorites I moved to my breadth section. The images are attached below.

Overall I'm pretty pleased with the way more concentration ended up. I ended up using my concentration pieces for my quality section with the exception of one slot which I put in a former concentration piece.  Special thanks to Mrs. Holliday and Benny Poytner who walked me through the use of photoshop, as clueless as I was.

5 and 6

So here are 5 and 6 7 and 8 will be up shortly... let's see how long we can procrastinate. I like these ones better than some of my previous ones. I've never worked with oil paint before so that was a new experience, it was.... interesting. The other is another photo I took back on new years and worked with on Photoshop, which I am slowly but surely figuring out :)

Update

Here are the last two works I added to my concentrations, I like dabbling with photography and my next one plays with photoshop more, which is interesting because I'm just learning how to work it, more like fiddling really.

I don't know about anyone else but I'm really quite tired of concentration pieces. My tying element ended up being line usage and expressionistic lines but it's hard to fit those into everything especially when I want a broader view of a city. I'm glad we have a breadth piece coming up for a break.

I think I might add a bit more to my splatter paint to tie in more with the other works.

Thinking of going more abstract in the future, also I'm going to play around with focal points and stuff.

Concentration #2

So I like my two concentrations so far thouh they seem to be focusing to much on music. I want to branch out more to cover the different aspects. The only problem is that I've somehow ended up having to tie all of my works together with expressive lines, because we have to link our works in some aspect like that, appparently? I'm a little confused on whether or not we have to do that... Hopefully not so I can expand more.

The second of my works was done with chalk. The second used paint. When I first started this class I did more mixed media works and I kind of want to get back to thata and maybe add some 3D aspects as well. I like experimenting with media so I think I will continue doing this, using mediums that I've never used before and such. I like the freedom and freshness to it however photoshop and I are just now getting to know each other, and we're not necessarily friends yet. I expect to do more digital stuff in the future hopefully...

Concentration Topic- For Real

So after thinking about my topic for y concentration I decided that it wasn't really feasible because of the large amount of time and money it would require. Thinking on this I decided to change my topic instead. This time I decided my topic is "Nightlife." This will range from the positive to the negative such as prostitution and drugs to dancing and jazz.

Concentration Topic

      So I decided for my concentration topic that I'm going to do steampunk or steampunkery. In case you don't know Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s. Specifically, steampunk involves an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century and often Victorian era Britain—that incorporates prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology or futuristic innovations as Victorians may have envisioned them; in other words, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, art, etc. This technology may include such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne or real technologies like the computer but developed earlier in an alternate history. (Definition by Wikipedia :) )

      I plan to use various media such as chalk, photography, and some 3D layering and such. Steampunk comes out in a lot of different medias such as fashion, art, and literature. Below are some inspirations.

(Please note these are not mine and are from the interweb)