What is the strongest area (concerning technical execution) of the piece of work you made?  Why?

The strongest area of my art is the upper right part. The way I blended the pictures together looks amazing. When you look at it, you can see that that around my tattoo hand you can see how the two colors split in the middle. I think that specific around looks really good. Makes me think I did a good job. Everything around that upper part looks nice. I used blend modes correctly and also use the eraser correctly to get rid of the edges of my pictures.

What area of your work can be improved on? How?

There’s a couple of areas that I would fix if I was to do this project again. Now that I have an idea of what we are doing I would definitely use the rule of thirds better, move my pictures around play with

What was easy about this art activity? Explain.

Using the filters to change the color of the pictures and the shapes was really easy. Using the blend mode made my project easy and fun. When I was working, I found it very easy to blend my pictures together. It was pretty fun. Usually when something is fun and I like doing it I am always more engaged on it.

What was difficult about this art activity? Explain.

     In the beginning I was annoyed because when I tried to use the Magic Wand Tool and it would erase parts of the pictures that I didn’t want to cut off. Another difficult part was the rule of thirds, you wanted us to flip pictures around, fix them and make things not aligned but the way I was doing it wasn’t coming out right.

What mediums (materials) did you use? What tools in Photoshop/Illustrator did you use? How did you use them? Be specific.

       I used the Move tool to move my pictures around. I used the quick selection tool and the magic wand tool to get rid of the white parts off my pictures. A lot of times I used the eraser tool to get rid of the edges and make the pictures look nice next to each other. Even though this is not a type of material, I used the filters to change how my picture looked. I also used the blend modes to make sure that the pictures blend in right so they could come out beautiful.

How did you demonstrate the objective (the goal) in this art activity?

      I demonstrated the objective by using the filters, blend modes and selection tools to create my art piece. I used the filters to put textures. When I used the filters, I used it to change some pictures so they can look like paintings, sketches and many more. I used the blend mode to blend all of my pictures together so it could look nice and well blended. There were different types of effects when I used the blend modes, depending on which one I used the pictures blended in different. Around the upper part of my work I blend in pictures to make sure the colors change.

7.      If you could do this art activity again, what would you do differently?

If I could do this activity again I would pick a different background. I would pick better pictures that would show a better understanding of my personality. I would use better filters and blend my pictures in to make it incredible. I would definitely put more time and effort to make it way nicer to show you that I learned how to use the materials correctly.

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1.          What is the strongest area (concerning technical execution) of the piece of work you made?  Why?

The strongest area about my work is the technical execution. The way I put my work together without it showing that its photoshopped, I think it looks really nice, I tried my hardest to make everything look nice and real.

2.          What area of your work can be improved on? How?

The area of my body can be improved, I don’t really like the positions and the poses that I did. I think that if I go back to the project and fix some things I would pay more attention and arrange the photos better. I can improve my work by making it more alive. I think that my work looks boring and plain that is something I can work on and change.

 

3.          What was easy about this art activity? Explain.

 

Using the Marquee tools was easy. I knew what I had to do when it came to using the Marquee tools and the paint brush to color the pictures in. changing the opacity to put the pictures together was easy too.

4.          What was difficult about this art activity? Explain.

In the beginning this was very frustrating. I wasn’t sure on how to add other pictures in. Blending the pictures in without making it look weird and fake was kind of hard. For example, I had to keep changing the paint brush color from white to black in order to add color or take out color. When I used white to add the picture in I had to be careful not to deleted parts off the other pictures, if I deleted some  parts off the other picture I had to use black brush to add it back and sometimes I would mess up  and it would be hard to do it good. I was confused with the layers, I wasn’t sure which one was which.

5.          What mediums (materials) did you use? What tools in Photoshop/Illustrator did you use? How did you use them? Be specific.

I used a lot of tools, I used the paint brush to paint my picture in. I used the rectangular marquee tool to select my pictures. I used the quick section tool to paint whatever I wanted and needed to paint.

I used a lot of tools, I used the paint brush to paint my picture in. I used the rectangular marquee tool to select my pictures. I used the quick section tool to paint whatever I wanted and needed to paint.

I used the layer mask on the picture so I could paint and see through the pictures.

6.          How did you demonstrate the objective (the goal) in this art activity?

 

I demonstrated the objective by having five pictures like you asked to. I took thirty pictures and selected five of the best ones, I used the correct dimensions. I tried my best to do everything that you asked me to do.  I played with my picture and had a lot of fun. Reason why I had fun it’s because at first I was struggling but then when I had the hold of it, I had fun.

7.      If you could do this art activity again, what would you do differently?

If I could do this again I would take better pictures. I would be in a beautiful place with a nice background. I would definitely do different poses to make my picture look more creative. If I was to do something like this I would make a project of my family. The pictures would look way better because now I would know what I’m doing.

 

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   Helena Soares

  Ms. Cabral                                                              

 Artist Reflection

  Answer the reflection questions after every project to get FULL credit. Remember to use correct vocabulary to answer for each assignment.

Write a 3 paragraph artist statement answering the following questions:

The strongest area of my work is the letter form. My strongest area is my creativeness. I believe that that’s my strongest area because of the shapes of the O’s and how I made some of them really big and some were smaller.

The background of my work can be improved. I should have picked a better “Graphic Art” for my background, I could have also chosen a picture or something more unique.

The easy part about this activity is the composition... I think it was really easy because I wasn’t confused about nothing. I made my work nice and easy.

At first using the rules of thirds was difficult because I didn’t know what I was doing. After I started learning how to use the tools I became more comfortable

I used the move tool to move my O’s around. I used the blur tool to make some of my letter blurry. I used the Horizontal type tool (T) to put my letter in my project.

I demonstrated the objective by showing Ms.Cablral that I understand how to play with Photoshop. I used contrast to make some of my O’s big and some smaller, some of them had different texture and I also used the 3D to prove her that I learned how to use the Photoshop app. If I could do this art activity I would pick a different letter, different shape and textures and I would also pick a different background. I would pick a background that is more outstanding.

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