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The goal of the word illustration project was to take themes of The Power of One and use them in an image that depicted the tones associated with these words. I mostly took photos of the internet and added filtes, but I added some of my own original components. I used spacing a color to position the words in a way that would accent the images and add to them. I especially liked my last picture with the lion and the mouse. I erased the background behind the mouse and the peanut and scaled them down for this picture. I would spend some more time finding my own original work to add to these pictures if I had more time to do it again.

One Word Text Illustration

This assignment was to take some word that we feel best represents The Power of One and make artwork with it that includes themes of the movies. The main character in the movie is in charge of a cactus farm, trains in boxing and attempts to teach English so I made the cacti, books, and gloves the central pieces of my image. I used spacing and perspective to make the gloves seem like they are hanging off of the "E" in persistence. I really like the gradient background I added to this picture. I enjoyed this project because I liked the task of finding one word to summarize the movement that this movie focused on.

Power of One Poster

The movie poster was the task for the Power of One project that I enjoyed most. Our task was to design a realistic-looking movie poster for this movie. I decided to create a cartoon visual that illustrates how one person can make a difference. I then included the real names of the actors at the bottom of the poster t make it seem authentic. I used color as my main element of design to show how from the on person in the center comes many groups of people all united by the same idea. (In this case the idea was civil rights, and the movement in South Africa was related to other civil rights movements around the world.) I really like The Power of One and I put a lot of effort into this poster. This project required lots of creativity and I really enjoyed it. 

Met review

Kelli Connell, 2006

This image caught my eye as I was browsing through the collection. The pink shirt stood out in the sea of dark images. I also saw the ferris wheel in the background, which creates the fun carnival setting for this image. The artist creates the appearance of two different, similar looking women standing near each other at a carnival. In fact, the two women are just one person, and the artist did an incredible job of combining the two images into a seamless creation. The artist feels that by creating an image of this nature she is able to say more with her photographs than someone could by taking a photo in a true environment. I am paraphrasing Connell's words in saying that the fiction of this image enables the photograph to portray the qualities of the subject a deep level.