WAHS Art Show

For this assignment we were to make a poster for WAHS's annual art show that would be held in Old Trail. I didn't really like this project. It was just kind of boring to do and I don't like the way I chose to do my poster. It was hard for my to think of something creative to do for this ad. 

ESA

For this project we were supposed to create a logo for our schools new ESA program. Now by doing that I took hands holding the earth and blocked on the ESA letters. I also made a poster with it which I didn't really intend to do but it turned out alright. This was a little difficult at first because I couldn't decide what I wanted to do but once I did it was easy to create the logo.

Ads

For this project we were supposed to create two posters that advertise events. For my first ad I represented WAHS volleyball. I advertised a game against AHS by making a simple poster. I took a photo of my hands setting a volleyball and cropped it onto a black back-ground. It was really easy and I think it turned out pretty well.

My friend Abi Wagner was playing a show at MUDHOUSE with Lester Seal in September so I used that event as my second poster. This one was a lot better than the first. I took a senior picture that Abi had taken by Linda Hexter and used it for the advertisement. I also used the MUDHOUSE logo in the poster. This one was really fun and cool to do. It was fun helping advertise a friends opening. 

Joiner Collage

This was the first project of the 2013-2014 year. This was the first project I've done on the new version of photoshop. For this Assignment we where supposed to take one original portrait and one original landscape view and cut the image up into smaller images and make a 'joiner" collage. For my landscape I used a picture I took 2 summers ago in San Marino, Italy. We were on the top of the mountain and my sister was on the bridge below me so I took a bunch of shots of the beautiful view.

This second picture is of one of my teammate Abigail Wagner. We play volleyball together and she is one of my favorite people in the world. I was looking for a portrait to use and came across this and thought it was perfect for this assignment. I really liked this project because, for me, it made the assignment personal because I was able to use an original image.

The Power of One Trilogy

For this assignment we were supposed to make three different projects based off of a movie we watched in class called The Power of One. For the first project, we were supposed to make a movie poster for the movie. A poster you'd see to advertise the movie outside of theaters. This was really fun to do because I wanted to incorporate all of the really important characters so I put all of them in the background of the poster and made the main character, Peekay, somewhat transparent.

For this part of the project, we were supposed to pick a word from the movie that would portray an importance. I chose the word POWER because it is in the title but it is obviously a powerful word and is just that in the movie. This project was fun also because you got to choose basically anything to do and I filled in the letters with a safari background and made that layer on top of a boxing gloves picture. I think it turned out to be really cool.

For this portion of the assignment we were to make a series of six projects that had to do with racism and or heritage/culture. So I did mine based on african culture. But instead of posting six different projects I put all six into one. I manipulated each individual picture by either putting a filter on it or desaturating a portion of the image or layering two different pictures together etc. I really liked this project and what I did with it because its all different parts of the culture almost coming together in a way. This was really fun to do and I like that I was able to be creative with the out coming product.

Color Wheel

           

For these projects we were supposed to make a stencil with an original photograph. I used a picture I took of my sister running in one of her conference meets for High Point University and an image of a bird. We were assigned to make six stencil cutouts and put color behind them or around them or whatever you wanted. These were really easy to do and fun to do.

When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Cooker

I chose this image to show on my blog from the Met's website because I think it really makes a statement about what some children are aloud to do. This picture shows a child smoking a cigarette. In real life, this child is 2 years old. His mother, Maria Marshall, is the photographer of this photo. She took this shot of her son playing with a fake cigarette and with a certain type of photoshop program, added the wisps of smoke. It's almost frightening how real this looks because in everyday life this is not uncommon in some places of the world. She quoted, "Jake was only 2 when I was projecting him as a future addict." By using her son in this piece, this could lead to her son learning smoking is bad or he could very well become addicted in the future.