December 4

My Photoshop Project

To make my poster I took a photo while riding on a ferry on the way back from the beach. Then I masked out the water and replaced it with a photo of lava flowing down the side of a mountain and put it where the water used to be. Once I had replaced the water I took a photo of a person paddle boarding on calm water and masked that out and put it on top of the lava. I made sure to include the shadow to make the person more realistic. After all that was done I added smoke on top so that it looked like the person was paddle boarding on the side of subterranean volcano. I think that the shadows reallt make it look real because the sun is setting so if they weren’t there it would kind of kill the vibe.

 

October 10

Value Chart Post

 

The main trouble that I ran into was that I couldn’t get there to be just one shade of pencil. What I mean by this is that I was having trouble getting the coloring smooth so that each box had one shade rather than multiple. Another trouble that I ran into was that I had trouble keeping all the little lines in the box because I was trying to cover the space with long strokes rather than little scribbles. Overall I think that I did a good job but with some more practice I could do better.

May 31

Map Art Post

for our map art project, first we had to think of the most complex and amazing idea for our project. Then we had to think of something even more complex. All of these ideas had to involve an NYC subway map. In the end I decided to cut silhouettes of different things around the city that mattered to me. Then to black out the parts of the city that I don’t know very well with spray paint.

As I worked through this idea I discovered that if I boosted the silhouettes with a little foam board then they would look even cooler. At this point I am at the part of the process where I will glue the silhouettes on the foam board then I will black out the parts of the map that I don’t need to use

Here is a photo of the piece so far:

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this is my final map project

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April 12

My Fabric Collage

I feel that I did a good job on my Fabric collage because I Put a lot of time into itand when I( thought I might be finished I kept on pushing to do more. I feel that I ould have worked  bit faster if I hadn’t gotten distracted by friends but over all I did a Pretty good job

Here is a photo of my piece

Gus Fabric

April 5

My Illuminated Leter

The reason I am posting about my illuminated letter is because I feel that it really shows my best work because I spent a lot of time on it and even stayed after school for an hour to finish it. Also I feel that (not to brag) it looks really good compared to some of my other work. One thing that I could have done better with this would be to have kept the paper clean. Here is a photo of it.

 

Gus Illumination