Avatars/Alter Egos Project

For this project we had to create our own avatar. For mine I created superheroes- one on the good side and one on the evil side.

Abstract Expressionist Artwork

This assignment was to create an abstract expressionist piece of artwork. For mine I used different brushes in the brush tool plus the liquify tool.

Chair Art

For this project we had to use art clippings and form them to fit onto a chair. For my first chair I used works by Claude Monet and for my second chair I used works by Van Gogh. This project was pretty hard but when its finished it looks pretty cool.

ArtNews Inspiration

Looking through the ARTnews Magazine, I stumbled upon a painting by John Stuppin. This actually wasn't the one that I saw in the magazine but that one was an ocean scene. I went to John Stuppin's website and looked through his paintings and found this one. I just liked it because I like the beach and this scene just looked really calm and peaceful.

Kaleidoscopic Effect Project

This project was to add a kaleidoscopic effect to pictures that we took. This week was Spirit Week and so I took pictures of the class murals we all made and did a kaleidoscopic effect for each of those murals. The first one I did was for the Sophomore Mural. The second was for the Freshman Mural. I liked this project a lot because it was pretty easy to do and the end product is really cool looking. To make this effect, you first crop the picture into a 5X5 section. You then use the Polygonal Lasso Tool and create a triangle across half the image. After this, you just put this triangle into a new layer and duplicate this and arrange the image to make the effect! The original images of these two are below ( Freshman Mural is first followed by the Sophomore Mural). The part I used for the Sophomore Mural is the section with the 'S.' The part for the Freshman Mural is the tree plus the 'FR.' Below those is a another Kaleidoscoped picture that I did. This is an image off of the internet but it is really cool looking so I wanted to post it as well.

Constitution Day Project

This was an extra credit project that we did on Constitution Day. It was inspired by the website wordle.com which is a site where you can type in a bunch of words and it will make a picture of words for you. It is a pretty cool website and you can make some pretty neat things. I used some fading effects withe flag, Statue of Liberty, and the eagle and I also used some glow effects. I think it turned out pretty well and pretty cool.

www.wordle.com

Wordmask Project

In this Wordmask Project each person was given a word and we had to make a word mask over a picture that represents that. My word was 'Horses' and so I found this picture of horses on Google and used that. I used a few effects on the text but I can't really remember which effects I used. This was a pretty cool project though and I liked it.