Chair Project

Chair 1

Chair 2

Artist Statement (Combined for 1 and 2) : The assignment for the chair project was to take at least 2 chairs and alter them to produce a new appearance. I used strictly Jackson Pollock paintings for the first chair and paintings of flowers for the second chair. I wanted to choose patterns that would compliment the complexion of the chairs; I chose darker colors for the dark, straight edged chair and lighter, floral designs for the curvy chair with lighter wood. These two different types of paintings inspired me because they just popped into my head and because I assumed that an abundance of these types of paintings would be available on the Internet. I used shadow, color, and perspective on this work. Color came into play when pairing different pieces of artwork with each other and the chair; the drop shadow tool was useful in creating a realistic shadow for the chair; perspective helped me look like the paintings were truly a covering to the chair, and I thought I did an especially good job with the floral backing to the more decorated chair. I also used line to transfer between pieces of art around the curves of the chairs. Color was also important in deciding how to fill in the legs of the 2^nd chair, and I decided that green and pink would go well together. I am satisfied with my work because I think that these chairs are more aesthetically pleasing than before my changes. Next time I would also like to spend some time working with covering a curved chair, seeing as this would be a more difficult task.

Cartoon Project

This assignment was to use pictures of ourselves in an original cartoon-esque creation. I wanted to do something that was funny and pretty easy to edit, so I took some different pictures out in the hall and then out myself on the beach because it was the first place to pop into my head. Naturally an octopus would be on a beach, so then I followed that idea wherever my thoughts took me. I thought the final scene with the picture of the city was funny. I mostly used spacing and perspective to create layering in the image, one example of which being my positioning on the beach. I am satisfied with my work, and I thought I chose some good filters to make the pictures of me seem more like a cartoon. It would be fun to use the puppet warp tool in a future project like this to alter people’s limbs, for example, but I didn’t know how to use it very well for this project.