Art: Michael Mews Collage

こんにちは! This week in Art I have completed my Collage Art. This artwork was inspired by an artist named Michael Mews. For the past several weeks, we looked into the concept of Michael Mew's art. As well as the structures of his art how there is a focal point, leading lines etc. 

Here's a picture of one of Michael Mew's amazing artwork.

Now moving on to the results of my collage art. Here are some photos from the process:

(This is a picture of the elements I've cut out from the magazine)

(An image of my thumbnail sketch for my art)

However, some things that I planned to do here were changed later on in the process. For instance, I was planning to include a butterfly on the top right corner of my art but I soon changed it instead to a moon.

And lastly, here's a picture of what the finished product of my art looks like.

"Orange Sweater" 
I really have no idea what to call this piece of art so I just went with 'orange sweater' because why not...

The main focal point of my art is obviously the woman in the centre wearing vibrant orange clothing. Some people say they thought the main focal point was the moon on the top right corner, but not quite I guess. The leading lines of my art are the flower's petals that have the same colour as the focal point's clothing. I intentionally placed the flower in the direction where the woman was looking at. 

However, the lines across the moon could be also considered as my leading lines. However, at some point, I kind of messed it up and played too much with the colours that it end up looking like a mess.  

What were your thoughts and interpretation of my art?

Thank you for taking the time to read this post. Bye! 

Art: Tone, Texture and Proportion

こんにちは! Last week and this week in Art, we have been working on our drawing skills of tone and proportion. Our task was to draw out a realistic drawing copy of the photographs we took that includes tones making it realistic and have a good proportion. This is my sketch compared to the real picture.

My drawing:


The picture reference:


What is tone?
The definition of tone in art is relating to the lightness or darkness of a color in a drawing such as shading etc making it realistic and have a good proportion.

What do I want to improve on my work?
I think next time, I would like to improve on composition. The wooden block object thing on the left doesn't have the right type of angle it is drawn in unlike the rest of the objects. It's more of a top angle. Moreover, in the original photo, the wooden thingy was nothing like the one I draw. It was way taller in my drawing. 

Art Photo Compositions

Nǐ Hǎo! Last week in Visual Arts, we learned the different types of photo compositions. Now if you have no idea of what it is, this is the right place for you. Photo compositions in photography are basically placing an element in a way that suits the core idea or goal of your work best. Now here's a slide presentation to help you get a better understanding of it. It was a template created by our teacher but I changed it up a bit to look nice. Also, some of the photos included are taken by me. Let's see if you guys can guess which ones are taken by me! :) 

As always, thank you for viewing my post. Have a nice day!

Q: Are you interested in Photography? Why or why not?

Levinthal Emulations - ART

 In our Art lesson, we are focusing on David Levinthal's way of photography. David Levinthal is a photographer that uses mini figures to represent an idea like war scenes for example. We were tasked to make an emulation of his photographs. Emulation is kinda like imitating something but not exactly copying, just either making it better from the original or creating a piece that is kinda similar to it but with our own props. We took the time to do some photograph session outside using our mini figures. Here are the photographs I took. I didn a little bit of editing in it. I hope you like it.

It is 3 photographs of mini figures that looked like some couples. There's not really any special idea meaning behind it. We also needed to evaluate one of our photographs and check if we have included like rule of thirds, assymetry/symettry, focal points, and leading lines.  View my other post to know the definitions of those and what it is. Have a nice day! Bye!

My lovely photo-montage collage artwork!

Hello! This week in Art, we moved on making our own photo-montage collage art. The photomontage style of art is a montage constructed from photographic images The previous one was made on paper. This time around, we are having a go in making our own photomontage collage digitally. we were tasked to make a couple so here's mine. I made 3 in total. I hope you like it!

Photomontage 1:

This was my first attempt at making a photomontage collage digitally. The idea I had in my head was to make it as a desert theme. As you can see, on the right side, I made that person's arm turn into some macarons because it sorta fit in from the wrist. The ice cream cone that the figure was holding ended up looking like Hello Kitty because of the cherry representing it as the bow. The hand that is holding the White cat signifies that it is getting served that is why the angle of that arm is a bit higher than the left one. Speaking of the left side, the ice cream cone that the figure was holding contained a cute round bunny. At the top of the bunny, there is a sunflower plant growing in its head. Having the orange wing butterfly hanging on it just adds to the idea that it is an actual plant and is pollinating the sunflower. At last, the background is just some deserts that relate to the main object.

Photomontage 2:

This is my second photomontage collage art. The theme of this artwork is lemons. I started it off with some anime guy, eventually covered it's faced with a large lemon and added some details to it by pasting some small lemons both sides to represent the ears. I noticed the t-shirt were kinda empty so I pasted some lemons that have some green leaves on it to the shirt to give it some design. With all of those details, it turned out to be a lemon figure. Although it didn't have any facial structures, the hands, neck and body were enough to consider it as a person. The figure is on a pose that makes both of their fists crumbled up into a ball as a sign of cheer. As the whole thing is mostly just yellow, it represents the enthusiasm and energy that the colour yellow brings out. As well as the Sunflower on the bottom left corner.

Photomontage 3:

Lastly, this was the third photomontage collage artwork. Firstly, I took a photo of one of the k-pop idol that I adore. I cut the picture and edited the background. But before I moved on to the background, I edited a white shadow at the back of the person to make it more like 3d. Now for the background, I gathered some aesthetic peach themed pictures from the internet and just sorta paste them all over the place. You can also see some of the repetitive images on the background somewhere. I only used about 8 different images and put it all together to turn into an aesthetic background. As you probably noticed, I also put some of the pictures into a different angle. It turned out pretty well. For the finishing touch, I decided to add some flower crown to the person. 

If I have to choose out of these 3 masterpieces of which one I like the most, I would probably choose Photomontage 3, it's because I put a lot of effort and hard work into this one, especially the background and the white shadow of the figure. Therefore, I am proud of all of my finished product artwork.

I hope you liked my art and have a nice day everyone! Bye~!

What is “Photogenic Drawing?”

Hi, This week in Photography Art we are doing our daily photography research first 10 minutes of each class. What is "Photogenic Drawing"? 

Photogenic drawing is a type of photographic process used in the 1800s. This process was invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1802. This process is basically a contact print on a light-sensitive paper that produced dark and spotty images. This process was made without a camera. It was mainly produced by light. This technique is also known as the printing out process but is used without the chemicals. It was produced and brought out the image by the action of light. 

For more visual detailed information on how it works. Here's a helpful video about it. Credits to the rightful owner. Have a nice day! Bye!