Baillieboo's media art blog: February 2015

Friday, February 20, 2015

Montage : Does Love Last Forever?

Media Arts Montage

Does love last forever?

Baillie Vyhnal

Friday, February 20th 2015

Materials:

photos from the internet

brushes

erasers

blending

color balancing

hue/saturation

Technical:

In my montage, I used multiple brushes to layer and add effect. I used photos from the internet, I cut out some parts of the photos and pasted them in my montage. I used hue and saturation and color balancing. I used two different pictures and blended them to make a really good background.

Idea or Concept:

In my montage, I wanted to portray love and ask the question: does it last forever? My idea was to have many reds, pinks and purples because those are nice colors that have to do with love. I wanted to have many pictures that were symbols of love. Throughout my montage, my idea changed and i ended up using many different soft colors such as blue, green, mint, pink, yellow etc. I ended up using some photos but not all of them because they ended up not going with my idea. I ended up adding different things and using more brushes than I thought I would use at the start.

Influences:

I actually did not look at any work to inspire mine, I wanted to have my own ideas and I did not want to copy anything that someone else did.

Composition:

I made my montage have many things around the outside, like a border almost. There were many layers. I believe that there were the same amount of things on each side.

I used a roller coaster to move the eye from the bottom left to the bottom right. I used little arrows, feathers and stars of different colors to make the eye go up to the right hand corner. I used three pocket watches to move the eye across to the top left hand corner and then I used the eiffel tower to move the eye back down to the bottom left hand corner.

Motivation:

I wanted to make a masterpiece, something that i thought was beautiful and i could call my own.

Critical Assessment:

I feel the the layering at the top of the page is the best thing in the montage, I like the look of it and how colorful and crazy it looks. I thought that the amount of layers that i had really made the montage come to life. During the process I was very surprised about how hard it actually was to find pictures. With additional time, I would change some things, I would change the bottom right, I felt that i had rushed it and it would look nicer if I had spent more time on it.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Montage "i want to believe" Brainstorming

Montage:

When you hear “I want to Believe”, what do you think of? God? Other

planets and peoples? That earth will become a better place? That you

will grow up to fulfill your dreams? Does this make you think about the

universe, earth, your country, town, or school?

When I hear “I want to believe”, I think of:

Fate
That everything happens for a reason, and that people come into our lives for a reason
That there are ghosts/spirits that are stuck on this earth looking out for loved ones
That there is alien life on other planets
Karma; what goes around comes back around
Happiness is a choice
love lasts forever
Magic/Miracles
Peace
Society will stop being so judgmental and wont pressure us to be perfect everyday