Self Portrait

For this attempt I chose a single image of me holding a light source. I added different brush strokes to the light to make it look stronger and more dispersing, and so it will cover most of my hands. 

The background I did with few different filters, color layers and blending modes, which I experiment with until I got to a pleasing result. This result consist of broken diagonal lines that add tension to the composition, and lighter values in the center of the frame to bring the focus to the figure. 

Jim J

I found this project difficult at first. I was dead set on taking the letters from a given word and working an image that relayed the meaning of that word. Inspired by the abstract art that we covered I was able to just let go and work with letters as shapes and think outside the box. I wanted to relay something organic through the use of hard lines and colors.

Brandi Blanco

My main focus for this exercise was creating an image with both balance and movement. I used complementary colors, and repeating shapes and lines to accomplish this. I incorporated B's, O's and L's, for no particular reason besides the movement that each letter exemplifies. I wasn't concerned for making the image perfectly smooth and clean so please forgive some lines that may have imperfections or any incorrect spacing.

Brandon Beren

This is all x's and o's. Just messed with things I guess.

Haleigh Klandrud Vector Exercise

With this exercise I wanted the symbols to lead the viewer in certain directions as well as play with very curvy lines next to very sharp, rectilinear lines. I also wanted to have a very large, bold feeling with the piece.

Ashley Bennett

I chose the world "cold" for this image because not only did it have a nice mix of curved and straight lines, but the word also has a lot of sensations, colors, images, etc. associated with it. For my vector image I wanted to focus on thawing or melting and therefore tried to create a dripping sensation with the letters.

Sheets_Vectorexercise

I wanted my image to have a digital feel to the background so I used very boxy font. After seeing the background I thought I'd put a more modern feel in the foreground so the interpreter could easily see the differences in positive and negative space. I chose to use two opposite colors and then decided to blend them to give the image more flow.

Matt Fahnestock Vector Exercise

I decided to use a sunset as my inspiration when making this image. All of the shapes are made up of the words "Oohh" and "Aahh", because I associated those words with a pretty sunset.

Ben Sheets Rater Proj

I chose to create an image that led you into unknown space. By having a bridge with no ending and keeping a lot of the blue sky in focus. These pictures were taken over about a week span which gives the buildings many different shades according to the time of day. I'm interested in traveling with no destination. Traveling just to travel, just for the adventure and I think I portrayed this through the raster project well.

Eatting Rabbit

After trying many different science for this project, my rabbit collage seemed the most successful.
I liked the red color of the couch in contrast to the white fur of the rabbit and the green kale she is eating.
I also liked the scale of the small rabbit in contrast to the big couch, which emphasize the rabbit and draw the viewer attention to the detail in the image.

To do this photomontage I tried to use David Hockney technique, of adding many photographs from the same perspective together to create a bigger pictures and to tell a larger story. The rabbit is seen as eating a kale pice, but also the unusual location and the atmosphere is depicted, which adds to the mystery

Brandi Blanco

For my project I decided to focus on time in relation to the painting process. Because a piece of artwork goes through many stages, (the primary sketch, inking, first coat of paint, second coat of paint, etc.) I was really curious to see what it would look like if you combined all of these stages into one, and here it is.

Haylee Schiavo final project

In attempt to capture the idea of time and space, I portrayed the same girl on the bike rack in multiple different places. Instead of portraying time differently by altering the space or perspective I shot it at, I decided to get the same idea across by altering the position and location of the girl there. The point is to show her different mood and personality as time moved on. It can also represent the idea of time simply because she is sitting on a bike, which is ironically unable to move. I did a lot of editing on this project. There was a bunch of white blocks/pillars on the brick wall in the background that I completely removed. I edited the color, while ensuring that each one of the characters were at the same shade/value/tone. In addition, I had to cut and paste my friend into the picture each time. I also added a slight vignette to the edges to draw the viewer's attention towards the middle.

Brandon Beren

I wanted to do a photo-montage self portrait over the course of 24 hours, one picture an hour. Unfortunately I had no 24-hour stretch in which I could do this. I only got 14 hours out of the day and was interrupted by work. I took one picture an hour from those hours and made up the most important parts or the self portrait (i.e. the eyes and other facial features. For the rest of the image I used fill material from the same pictures.

Lindsey Scofield

For this project, I ended up with two different outcomes. My first image is a scene of a friend of mine eating a burger. All the photos within it were taken at different points in the meal, and from different angles. The second image happened randomly because I hadn't planned to use this place for my project. It was a spur of the moment kind of thing. Both of these images seem to tell a mini story, which is what I liked best about this project.

Haleigh Klandrud Raster Project

For the first image, I wanted to explore how I could transform a really small space with the use of multiple images. Even though the space is only a few feet and still doesn't look very large in the image I compiled, I think it does look larger than the space actually is.

In the second image, I wanted to explore time and space at the same time by having the subject move around while I was taking pictures of the vertical space. I wanted it to tell a story in a single image and for the viewer to get the feel that this subject wasn't stationary or that this image only captured one moment in time.

In both images, I tried to focus on different things in each of the pictures I took to make the overall appearance more interesting.

Ryan Evans Raster Project

With my project I tried to capture different angles of the same space and put them together into one image. I stood at the same spot and "spun" to take the images. They were taken with different lenses so they are actually not all the same "distance" away. Also, the images do not actually encompass the entire space, there is distance between the images which I tried to erase with my combination.

Alyssa Bouck Raster Project

For this project I took pictures of my boyfriend at the MU at night. In some of the photos, I left him ghosted, playing with the idea of time passing. Another way that I'm experimenting with time and space is the fact that he's in different places, and in almost every picture. I also placed myself in the bottom center picture. The pictures aren't supposed to line up completely, but just supposed to barely convey the fact that it's the same place.

Sanders Raster Project

I wanted to try a more playful side to my art, as I usually create darker images. I simply took 4 pictures of myself in different positions at a desk, and compiled them together. I had to work very hard in making them seamlessly blend together. Overall the trick was making me look like I belonged in each of my seats.

Matt Picon Raster Project

I first started with the background, combing multiple pictures taken with a wide angle lens. Once the background was created I used photographs of the bottom of shoes (that I altered to look like shoe prints) and placed them throughout the frame. I had to distort and change the perspective of each shoe print in order to match the distortion caused by the wide angle lens as well as the panoramic perspective. The final step was to change the opacity in order for the shoe prints to not stand out as pure black and blend into the background.