Art Start- Week 3b

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~"Sometimes I am terrified of my heart*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
 *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*of it's constant hunger for whatever it is it wants.~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~The way it stops and starts"*~*~*~*~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
                                                               - Edgar Allen Poe
Sorta poetic I guess. If you think about it the heart is always asking for stuff " give me food" most would think that that is your stomach, but this Valentine's day my 'bae" is the food my friends and I will be eating. Anyways the heart is giving, but also very greedy. In a cliche way it is always in conflict with our brains. The cute guy everyone likes, but is extremely rude. But you still go all "fan-girl" over them.

This quote is self explanatory. As individuals we are constantly at war with the idea of the life we should have with the life we do have. The only way to try to merge the two is to be creative and use your imagination. Imagination can go a long way is brightening up the world in which we live.

Art Start- Week 4b

"Before Alice got to Wonderland she had to fall pretty hard a deep hole." This seems like a quote we would analyze in English class. It can be a metaphor for before you get to a great place you have to start from the bottom, or a dark place.

Art Start- week4

"If you want your children to be intelligent,read them valentines"- Albert Einstein
Fairy tales introduce children to a lot of different situations at an early age. They show magic and love and dreams, and a whole lot of hope. Children are creative and curious so giving them fairy tales can build on that and lots of people say that creativity is connected to intelligence.

MY CHEESY VALENTINES

So here are my completed valentines. they are cheesy but they are kinda cute I guess. I changed the color of the coke bottles in Photoshop, but the original coke picture is not mine. I created the Starbucks cup in illustrator and used Photoshop again to change the color. Happy Valentines everyone!

Art Start- Week 3c

" It's a world laughter, a world of tears. It's a world of hopes, it's a world fears. There's so much that we share, that it's time we're aware. It's a small world after all."- Disney park song.
 I think this speaks on the way we view life. We all know the fortune-cookie, cliche, quotes on how there are good and bad things in life and how it all works out for the better. It also brings to attention how we all have been through similar events and have all shared the same feelings and I think that that is what it means when it says it's a small world after all and I think this does a good job of summing it all up.

Art Start- Week Three

" Love of
          Beauty is
 Taste

The Creation
         of Beauty is
Art"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

So I decided to change how I type the quote. I'm not sure if I like it or not.
Anyways, I think this quote is straight forward. To "art" is to make something beautiful and being able to distinguish that which is beautiful is having taste.

Art Start- Week Two post 1

 "Love all, Trust few, do wrong to none"- Shakespeare. Today's art start is a William Shakespeare quote. I interpret it as a warning to guard your heart. "Love all"- as humans that all make mistakes, we should love each other besides our mistakes. "Trust few"- the heart is sensitive and is easy broken so when you give a piece of it way make sure that you trust the person to not hurt you. "do wrong to none"- goes back to the fact that we all make mistakes and that it is ignorant to judge and act harshly to someone just because they mess or we disagree.

Sandman Final

Here is my completed sandman.I painted the original piece using acrylics and charcoal. Then scanned it into Photoshop. When I was in Photoshop I opened a new file and followed the steps from http://www.icanbecreative.com/how-to-create-realistic-sand-effect-in-photoshop.html which provided an easy tutorial to create a realistic sand effect. The sand is created using clouds, noise, and bas relief on two layers. I used the magnetic lasso and quick mask to separate part of my original piece ( the space section and sand) over onto the sand and placed it ( now a third layer) under the second layer to give it the blur and light effects. Then I used online pictures of animals and opened them in a new document and used the magnetic lasso and fill tool to create the deer silhouette. I was unaware on how to do a silhouette before this point and so I borrowed the bear and eagle silhouette from  online. It took a long time and quite a bit of confusion but I was finally able to create my idea of the sandman. The sandman is the master of dreams and my dream is to be an astronaut, cause space is cool. So voila!