Weekly Challenge 4

This week I chose the Portraiture project. However due to the fact I had used my sister for the last weekly challenge and there was no way i would be able to convince my brother to do it I chose my dog. This may have just been more work because he does not sit still, EVER! I turned out with quite a few good pics though, so I'm happy.

Twenty Layers

I really liked the twenty layers project, I thought it was super fun. I do wish however that I had chosen a bigger space to work with. The surface was really small and I feel like it made the piece look crammed. I tried to stick with a light theme that covered anything that was dark, but the darkness (and "pain") still stuck out. I also used slash marks on the hands and the "pain", representing the pain. The back is a picture of my sister, but it is covered in bubble wrap. I love bubble wrap!!

Weekly Challenge 3

My prompt for this week's was to create a fashion photo shoot. The model is my sister, I think this makes it both easier and harder to work with the model. You can communicate better and get your point across better than anyone else, but at the same time they push your buttons, are moody and do not always do what you want. Finally, in the end I got really great pictures of my sister. I like the way she is completely herself in these photos, which is why I chose them. She likes the modern 50s kind of style (somewhere in-between Marilyn Monroe and Taylor Swift), so I had her use her own style but connected them with the color red. I don't know what it is about the color red, but I think it looks FANTASTIC on everyone.
Hope everything is okay after the floods, stay safe. XOXO

Weekly Challenge Dos

For this weeks challenge I chose to emulate Judy Pfaff. Judy Pfaff creates both 2D and 3D art. She is a unique artist that uses lots of color but sticks to color schemes in individual art works. I liked the similarities between her 2 and 3D pieces. In order to emulate Judy Pfaff I used brushes and a six color scheme I then filtered the squares and circles and polarized them into the funnel shape that they are in.

 Judy Pfaff 3D

http://newabstraction.net/2013/05/28/judy-pfaff/

 Judy Pfaff 2D

http://www.arcadja.com/auctions/en/pfaff_judy/artist/46365/

My Work!!!

Woo Hoo!

First Weekly Challenge!!

Conveying a color without using that color is definitely tricky. First you have to know what is meaningful and red and then you have to think of how you can show people what you want to tell them. Red is a powerful color and it has a lot of meaning that other colors can not convey. So i started with the most powerful red thing I could think of Blood. I photographed the picture that I posed for then manipulated the colors to show everything but red. I don't know if it worked....but I like it.

Summer Arts

While in Minnesota this summer my family and I went to the Como Zoo and Conservatory in Minneapolis. In one of the branches of the conservatory there was a pond and the statue was super beautiful. throughout the conservatory there were multiple female statues dancing over the water. Each of the rooms of the conservatory had a water feature with Lilies and other beautiful flowers and plants surrounding it. It was the perfect photo opportunity.

During my mission trip in Colorado Springs we were in a rain storm and everything was dark and gloomy. But after we got through the pass the skies cleared and the view around us was truly amazing. The clouds and the mountains mixed in such a beautiful way. Reminding me that sometimes we have to go through the storm and the darkness before we get to something better and beautiful.