Creating Gold Foil Text in Photoshop

 

I created this text by following the tutorial step by step and I decided to create my boyfriend's name and mine with our favorite color. 

Surrealistic Photomontage

 

My surrealistic image was inspired by a picture that I found of hands coming out of a tree. Then I looked through images and I found an image of a scene in the hands. So I decided to incorporate both images. I decided to make the scene on the hands to be the future, or the later in the day of the scene in the background of the beach.

Surrealistic Ideas

My idea for my surrealistic project is to take a picture of a tree bark and make hands come out of it with a faded image of the beach. I will have my house's floor as the bottom ground of the tree. I will also put an image of the dark night. I will obviously use Photoshop to accomplish this look and to make my image seem more surrealistic. This idea came through an image I found by Jerry Uelsmann.

Surrealistic Artists Research

Martin De Pasquale is an artist and a photographer who is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. De Pasquale is currently n art director for an advertising agency, but he is mostly known for his incredible photo manipulations and surreal digital photographs. Using mostly Photoshop and other software digital programs, he creates amazing and exotic images that alters between reality and fantasy.  Photographing the various elements of getting the right angle or being away the right distance and with perfect lighting is essential to making the photo manipulations appear to be realistic.

Alberto Giacometti is a 1930’s sculptor, who creates surrealistic sculpture forms of this idea. Most of his remarkable career has come from his interest in European art before and after World War II. After the war he summed up the philosophy’s interests in perception, view, and anxiety. He abandoned his abstract pieces of art and became more interested in how to represent the human figure in a convincing illusion through his sculpting.

 

Artist’s Name: Martin De Pasquale

Title: Don’t Trust Your Own Shadow

Date: 2013

Description: This is an image portraying that that the shadow is grabbing on to the guys shirt and taking over his body essentially.

Analysis: Although the shadow looks very realistic, it looks a little weird the way it was put together, but overall, this is an amazing image. I really like the way he composed this image, the environment, the space, the shadow, and the motion making that he had to make in order to create this image as if he were tripping over.

Interpretation: I really like this piece over all his other photographs because this image is somewhat more realistic than the other, although you shadow can’t really take over you and pull you into the ground, you can see you shadow and in your imagination see that you shadow is taking over you.

Judgment: Everything about this image is great as I said the only thing I would change would be the way the shadow is interpreted.

 

 

 

Artist’s Name: Alberto Giacometti

 

Title: Spoon Woman

Date: 1927

Description: A figure of a women’s body and a spoon is interpreted as her wide hips and thighs. 

Analysis: This sculpture is very creative and it is a very human like figure that portrays women with curves rather than the skinny ones in the public.

Interpretation: This sculpture is very well put together, it is evenly portrayed, the black coal color gives the sculpture some edge as opposed to just make it a regular skin tone. I think this is a message to the public that women with curves can also be in the public face.

Judgment: I really like this sculpture, the fact that it is a sculpture is amazing. Portraying surrealistic images and paintings is challenging, but to put your ideas into a 3- Dimensional shape is pretty nice and he accomplished this successfully. The element and idea overall was very well thought out and very well represented.

 

 

These two artists and photographers are both very different. De Pasquale takes is a photographer and compositions himself in his pictures, essentially taking self-portraits in a surrealistic ways. Giacometti on the other hand is a sculptor of surrealistic art and he portrays more of human figures that any other things. They both are modernists I would say. They have pieces that are definitely surrealistic and they portray humans in their sculpting or photography. De Pasquale and Giacometti are both very talented surrealistic artists. They convey a variety of sculptures and images that are unbelievably unrealistic, but they work perfectly fine in creating their surreal pieces.

 

 

 

Become Someone Else

 

I became two of the Beatles for this project.

Photo Journal

Days With Grandma

 

 

 

 

I enjoyed making this project because this was a book that I actually wanted to make, or something somewhat similar for my grandmother. I adore spending time with my grandmother and I cherish every moment I spent with her. I love when she cooks for me, when she spoils me, but I love that she makes me feel better when I start to think that I am away from my family. She makes everything seem great and amazing. This book shows most of our enjoyable moments together during a week.