another scanner thing

I wanted to try the same layering/opacity thing that I did with the last three images with photographs.

These are some pictures I took and one my sister took of me and my friend randy.

Photo Shop Scanner Assignment

Photo Editing

 So much work goes into an advertisement in order to make it "perfect".  This photo editing should not be done to the extreme that it is today.  Different parts of women are pasted together to make a "super" female body.  Society is presenting a figure that is physically impossible to achieve.  This image can harm American's body image and sense of low self-esteem.  The truth can be just as if not more beautiful than the photographic lies we view every day.

work in progress

I really didn't like my scanner self-portrait, so when we got a new assignment to try another portrait but in a different style, I was really excited.  I decided to illustrate my friend Preethi.  It's a work in progress but I really like how it's turning out.  I'm trying to be really painterly because thats a style i gravitate towards in other people's art.

drawing with text

I really enjoyed drawing with text.  The limited brush palate forced me to be more creative and experiment.  I love writing and art, so getting to mix the two is really awesome.  It was interesting to look at the shapes of letters (instead of the letters themselves) and alter them in order to make something artistic.

TOP 5 FAVORITES

So I know I was supposed to put this information in it's own little box on the side of the page, but I couldn't figure it out.

So for now, here are my top five artists:

1.  Alberto Seveso (google image him, he's AMAZING)

2. Chris Trueman

3. Russ Mills

4. J3concepts

Adobe Illustrator

We had some homework in Adobe Illustrator.  I had to make two famous people, two occupations I'd do if I wasn't pursuing art, and a warning label for myself.

Here they are!

cool

These are some pretty cool illustration web sites:

mariozucca.com (tyler grad)

dougboehm.com (tyler grad)

sturgesrep.com

jhische.com

Henry Mercer

So for our first homework assignment we were asked to do a little research on Henry Mercer.

Here's what I found interesting...

Henry Mercer was born and grew up in Pennsylvania. Not only did he collect a vast amount of objects during his lifetime but he also was an archaeologist, tile-maker, and designed Fonthill (his house), Moravian Pottery and Tile Works, and the Mercer Museum.  Mercer also graduated from Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.    

Why did Mercer collect so many artifacts?

Henry apparently believed that American society was being washed away by industrialism.  He wanted to keep intact the memory of what life was before the industrial revolution.  Because of his collection, we now know what types of tools and the kind of lives people lead before the revolution.  What amazes me is that the museum contains over 40,000 artifacts from American society.

I found Henry Mercer to be a very educated, curious, and ambitious man.  I couldn't imagine collecting over 40,000 artifacts.  He made a wonderful contribution to American history. Because of Mercer, America, pre-industrial revolution, has been preserved and can be experienced by anyone who visits his museum. 

Here are some images of Mercer's tile works:

And here is a picture of a room inside the Mercer Museum:

Today is my first Monday at Tyler.

I'm going to use this blog as a place to post my art work and thoughts during the school year.