Oh, How The Amish Smile

We first found a picture of something (I chose a happy amish man) and then we put it into photoshop and transformed the scale and perspective of the picture, and then made a grid to make the task of drawing the picture out of perspective easier, and then we used colored pencils to give it a shadow, and some value, which adds that extra level of interest everyone seems to like. Yet another example of how awesome I am at using all the vocabulary words in a single sentence. The point of this project is to take a picture and make it look really stretched out and awkward when you look at it straight on, but when you look at the right angle, it looks like it's coming off the page. So in conclusion, we found a picture, stretched it out, then drew it using a grid method so it looks like it's popping off the page when viewed at the right angle.

The Taj Mahal Crawl

This stencil used positive and negative space which created a stark contrast that was highlighted by the brightly colored spray paint we used that made up the composition of the portrait, and had interest added to it by the collage in the background, on top of which was our drawing that we cut out with an Xacto knife from a page that we printed off of photoshop, where we used the threshold tool to help us see the contrast. Boom. Every vocabulary word used in one sentence. I used the background colors in order to create an illusion of a sun setting in the late afternoon, plus it looks pretty cool. The Taj Mahal itself is silouhetted against the sun, and  the white part is it's reflection on water. I almost cut my arm off about six times while using the Xacto knife, but it's all good because I'm prepared to make those kinds of sacrifices for my art. I loved the spray painting part of the project, and am thinking about making another stencil to put on other places around town. But not really because that's illegal, but it'd still be pretty sweet. This has probably been my favorite project we've done yet, both in the finished product, and the process of making it.