Photo Shoot (10/8/12)

My cousins had me photograph them in various places around their community. These were the finished edited photos. I apologize for the quality, for I had to use my iPad to take them. I used the app PhotoForge2.

Zoo Project

The San Francisco Zoo was kind enough to bring several animals to my art class for us to examine, photograph, paint, and draw. From this visit, we were assigned to create two separate projects. 

This painting was a close up of a Tortoise's shell. I first took a close-up photo of the tortoise in which the shell began to look somewhat like volcanoes. I first sketched it, then painted within the sketch with black acrylic paint. To get the orange background, I added the color in the iPad app, PhotoForge2. This painting shows elements such as shape and space. The principles within it are unity, emphasis, depth, and contrast.  (*The tortoise's name was Tim.)

I used photography in this piece of a small alligator. I used the app Color Splash to carefully bring out the color in just the alligator. This photo shows color contrast, texture, unity, balance, and emphasis. 

(*His name was Miles)

Trading Cards

The assignment was to create 24 Artist Trading Cards with a medium of your choice. Since I'm developing myself through nature photography, a large portion of my cards are photography of landscapes, animals, and other forms of nature. Through the three I have chosen here, I incorporated texture, color contrast, unity, and depth. I've taken these photos in many significant parts of my life in places such as Oregon, West Virginia, and California. I did not edit all of them, but for the ones I did edit to bring out the color, I used the app PhotoForge2 for the iPad. 

Typography Object

This typography piece comes together as a seashell. My medium was a thin black pen, and though it may be difficult to read, I wrote a poem about searching for yourself as a shell. This piece shows unity through the writing, contrast with the black writing and black background, and pattern within the spiral. My artistic elements would be form and balance.