Today in IT class we were taking our photos, photos that somehow represent us, and using them for our new project - Portraiture Technology. This project is also mixed with our art class. We took the photos, because we will be "playing" with them on different photo programs. The best program is Photoshop, but for now we are going to use online programs like picnik.com or flauntr.com, because Photoshop is not installed on our computers yet. On the day we were taking pictures, I had no idea what I was going to do, so I waited till everyone was done with their pictures, and then I still didn't decide what I was going to do. Elise and Sonya then had an idea what I could do. They went to get 2 basketballs from Mr. Ricketts. The photo represents me, because I love basketball and also the picture looked like a picture of an actor in One Tree Hill, which is an awesome TV show. For the homework, I didn't do it, because there was a problem with the name of the picture and the actual picture. They got mixed up, so I sent pictures of someone else to my email. I could have chosen some of my pictures from facebook, but those didn't really represent me in any way, because they were just plane, boring pictures. The reason why we are doing this is to do one unit in two classes. In IT we will just modify the picture using the programs I mentioned earlier and in art we will make an artwork using materials that represent us. Ms. Wilson showed us her artwork and she used nail polish, because she loves nail polish. She also cut out small pieces of newspaper that actually mean something to her, like an article on Venus Williams, because that's her idol. So we will be doing these things in these two classes for now. For the It part of the project, I never used any online photo editors, so this is completely new to me. I used a lot of adobe, because my old teacher in Zimbabwe used to love adobe and made us work with it for so long. I really wanted to use adobe on this, because it is the best program for these types of projects. I looked at other peoples edited photos and I wasn’t really impressed. Not that they were bad, just that they were basically the same photos just the saturation, contrast and colors were changed. In adobe, when I play with photos, I always liquefy the photos and then us all the things that are available to me. When i am going to start editing my photo i will try to make it quite interesting and fun to look at. Again, i never used these online photo editors so i dont know what to expect and what tools i will be able to use. I hope it is a lot like photoshop or atleast most of the fun thigns in photoshop.
Now i finished editing my photo. The programs are kind of primitiv, but i didnt expect anything like photoshop anyways. I used almost all the editing options there were, but it didnt make any big changes. I just changed the saturation, contrast and strength. For the AOI, i think that we used Human Ingenuity, because we actually created a piece of work. Part of the work was taking the picture and the other part was midifying it. We could modify it in any way we wanted to. The creation is a work of art made of any media we chose. This is the only AOI i think we used.
10/09/09
Today we are starting to draw our edited photos on paper. Badmaa is drawing her picture first so now i am waiting until she is done. I decided to not draw the complete picture, just the part on top of the basketball, because it is too much and i only want my face there.
15/09/09
Test
After finishing the project, i will ask atleast 3 people to look at my final work and tell me why they think i used a certain material. Basically, if i used yellow sticks for my hair the person might answer that i used it because my hair is blond, which is right. Another example, i will use 4 flags of the countries that i lived in and make it my shirt. So the person should answer that i used the flags, because i lived in those countries. If people guess atleast more than 50 percent of the questions right, then i think my artwork passed my test. If the people get less than i must have chosen materials that either dont really represent me or i never told anyone i like something that i used.
Design Specifications
- multi media
- technology
-photo of self
-express self
-Shouldnt go lower than hips
-Should look a lot different from the original photo
-Shouldnt be changed too much so you can recognize the person
-Color of the whole photo should be altered atleast a little bit
For the research, for art we researched 2 artists. One mixed media artist and one portrait artist. I chose Van Gogh and the portrait artist and Jim McNitt does mixed media. After writing a short description of the artists life, we picked a picture for each artist and described it in any way we can (composition, color, media, etc.)
Citations
"McNitt Jim." www.wikipedia.org. 27 8 2009. Web. 15 Sep 2009. .
Sudra, Anna. Art lecture. International SChool of Ulaanbaatar. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 3 Sep. 2009.
Sudra, Anna. "Portraiture Technology." Powerpoint presentation for MYP Visula Arts, International School of Ulaanbaatar. Sep. 2009.
Gogh, Vincent van. "Van Gogh self portrait."<
http://haysvillelibrary.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/van-gogh-self-portrait.jpg>
McNitt, Jim. "File:Big City Angel Detail.jpg."
I think that the sources that i have done by Ms. Sudra are completely reliable. This time i trust wikipedia, because the person cited all of his work. The picture sources, i believe, are also reliable, because the Van Gogh picture i already know what it looks like so it cannot be wrong and the Jim McNitt picture is on wikipedia with the sources cited.
In the actual artwork in art class, i decided to use 3-4 different types of media. For my hair and eyebrows, i will use small wooden sticks. For a part of my face i will use paint and make it all black and the other part of the face i am not sure yet......probably sand, but i dont know where to get it. For the background i am going to use a sponge dipped in blue paint to give it a unusual look like on the picture and after that i am going to dip my basketball shoe in black paint and make a shoe print on each side of my face, but not on the face. For my shirt i will have 4 different flags of the countries that i have lived in - China, Czech Republic, Zimbabwe and Mongolia. For the mouth i will use colored red sticks and my eyes wont have anything at all.
A portrait is an artwork that is on a person. It could be a self-portrait, which is the artist painting himself/herself. A portrait is usually an artist drawing someone else. As our old art teacher used to say "For something to be a portrait, it needs to have atleast one eye in it."
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