Wednesday 10 November 2010

Assignment one: my finished images. Main inspirations: Ingrid Baars, James Dawe and Sarah Howell

Blue sky thinking:
The phrase Blue Sky Thinking is all about being open minded and letting your thoughts stretch as wide and as clear as the blue sky.
In this image the birds to me represent the persons thoughts, and the bird cage is a symbol of the minds structure, the cage is open and the birds have been relased. The thoughts escaping represent being open minded.
I experimented with the swirls using a variety of mix media from cotton wool to paint, and filters on the programme Adobe Photoshop. I organised the composition of this piece in the programme Adobe Indesign.


This image is for the phrase paint the town red. This phrase suggests going out and having fun.
This image sums up my home town Hastings, I like the pictuesque old town and thought it would work really well with the phrase. I overlapped the images and experimented with transparency in a David Hockney style.
I also experimented with photoshop filters, using poster edges in many of the images to give an old fashioned painted feel.
The paint tube was drawn up in Adobe Illustrator and the paint tube adds the fun element to the image.

This Image was created for the phrase Red Letter Day
The composition for the final imgage was arranged in the programme Adobe Illustrator.
The image shows the envelope taking an journey to the door, the envelope represents a present and the idea of celebration. The lines in the image are supposed to be fun and string like - i.e party streamers. The stars in the image are a symbol of celebration and luck.
In china on "red letter day" people give each other red letters with money in and this is a symbol of luck and prosperity.
In the ivy leaves on the door are leaves of clover to relate the image to luck.

Above is a CD cover I designed for the assignment it includes elements from the images I produced for my first assignment.

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