"Data as Art"

This is my "Data as Art" project. My phone tells me how much data that each individual app uses, so I did the math and discovered this. Snapchat uses 61.9% of my data, Instagram uses 7.14%, Twitter uses 21.43%, and Spotify uses 9.52%. I tried to display this in almost a pop art way. I took the logos of each individual app and made them really small. I organized them in a simple way based on the percentages I found. This is how i created this. It looks just like square blocks of color. 

"5 Minute Walk"

These are the pictures I decided to use for my 5 minute walk project. I got up early in the morning and took pictures on a trail behind my house. The trail leads down to a lake. I took pictures all around the trail of everything around. These were my favorite pictures of the ones I took. I took pictures of the "Private Lake" sign, along with pictures of the lake and of the trees and sky. It was a very interesting project as I got to see and view things from different angles and try out photography.  

"Life of Pi Inspired Projects"

These are both projects I did inspired by the movie Life of Pi. The first project is just a pun I thought of based on the movie title. In the new garden outside of the breezeway there was a metal butterfly thing in the ground and I took of picture of that and some flowers. By doing this I did a double exposure technique and created a flower filled butterfly, hence "Life of Fly". The 2nd project was more of a stretch. I took a picture of a boat at sail at sea during the day and used the paint tools to create a night scene with a large moon and stars. I also darkened the water and created some shadowy mountains. I used a flower picture with a multiply effect for a border. 

"Independent Reading Project"

This is an alternative book cover I did for the book Fallen Angels written by Walter Dean Myers. This book is about a 17 year old African-American high school graduate Richie who decides to join the Army fresh out of high school. This is during the Vietnam War, however, he does not think he will actually be deployed to Vietnam because of rumors of peace. So, I picked a picture of war helicopters that were first used in Vietnam for the top. This is an icon for the Vietnam war. Since the picture was a lighter color I used a black text. The font I found on dafont.com and thought it worked well with the theme. I used a double exposure technique for both Vietnam and the United States. Within the countries is a picture of race riots in Harlem during this time. In the book, Richie's younger brother writes to him about riots happening in Harlem because a white police officer killed a black teenager. I used a grey background for most of the cover. I contrasted this with white text. I found a grainy texture online and used this with a low opacity to give it an aged, historical feel to combine with the black, white, and grey. 

"Double Exposure Projects"

The goal of this project was to create an image using a double exposure technique. This is where two images come together to form one from two. I used a picture I took during the winter of my backyard and the face of Vince Staples. That was how I got the original image or the very first one out of the four. Next I was experimenting with backgrounds and Andrew mentioned outer space. So, I took an image of outer space and put in into my image and put it on overlay. This made the 2nd image. Then I just pulled ideas from McDonalds and the American flag. I used the same process with these two. I then put them all into a single project and lined them up. 

"NAPP Tutorial #1"

The first image is a picture of a Lamborghini Veneno Roadster, which is the most expensive car in the world currently. I used a technique to change the color on the car without effecting anything else in the picture. I turned the red car into a pink car. This was a fun and simple project, very easy to do. I reccomened this technique to anyone. 

"Dollar 2"

                                                       

This is my second dollar that I made. The dollar idea is that companies can pay to put out their own dollar and have certain benefits with that. This is similar idea to companies having Credit and Debit cards that they offer to customers that give them rewards at their store, but can still spend money other places. I combined Progressive Insurance company and Subway to create this 5 dollar bill. 

"Dollar One"

This is the first dollar design I came up with. I played off of the idea Andrew had for a state dollar and made one for Kentucky. I was a little goofy and used Colonel Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken as the face of the dollar. I then used a bunch of 100's and filled the background with them. I then used the brush and colored it with black and green. Then I used a picture of the state of Kentucky to put behind Colonel Sanders to finish the project. It was a fun and challenging project and it definitely took some creativity to come up with your own dollar design. 

"Art Show Poster"

This is my Autumn Art Show poster. This was made for an art show that will be happening at the Crozet Library in the month of November and into December. I used a filter on a picture of the Crozet Library to make it look less a drawing. Then I put in the Western Warrior in the top left corner of the poster. 

"Panograph"

This is a panograph I made of the front of Western Albemarle High School. It shows the front road coming into the main entrance. This project was very hard. It took a lot of concentration to arrange the images in the way I wanted to. The final project turned out alright, I would have liked to seen the pictures flow better together but that is okay. 

"Kaleidoscope Tutorial Project"

This is a before and after of my Kaleidoscope Project. The first image is an image of some dumplings I found because I was hungry a the time. The 2nd image is the kaleidoscope I was able to make using a the tutorial on YouTube. I found the video hard to follow because it went fast, almost too fast. I found myself always having to pause the video. It was very informative, and overall and very fun project. 

"Poster"

This is a poster Andrew and I made for the O'Leary Music Festival happening in 2015. We took an image of a skyscraper for the background, and added information about the event in an orange circle in the middle of the poster. We made the orange circle see through, and have a border, so you could still see some of the skyscraper. The other poster we worked on is on Andrew's blog. Go check it out!

"Joiner Collage"

The goal of this project was to make each little box look like an individual picture. I made 9 different pictures of one album cover of MC Shan's I Pioneered this. I the decided to off set the images so it did not look like it was just a grid. I moved the top row a little to the left, the middle row a little to the right, and the bottom row a little to the left also. 

"Top Things About Photoshop CS6"

 

The first image is the original I took of the WAHS Tennis Courts. The first thing I did to the image was use the new content-awareness tool and got rid of the shadow in the foreground. The second thing I did was used the new crop tool to get rid of some of the sky in the background. Lastly, I messed around with the Iris blur tool which was not the easiest tool to use. I couldn't get the blur to to show here I wanted to but I tried to blur everything around the net.

"The Power of One; 6 Images"

These are a series of 6 photos that I got from the internet and then I edited them. These are all themed with black and white because they are based on the movie "The Power of One" which portrays racism in South America during the apartheid. I desaturated all of them and used similar filters. I used the art history brush to sharpen some parts in some images and leave other parts of the image untouched. The movie was a great movie and these pictures somewhat portray how the movie influenced me.

"The Power of One; One Word"

This is a project based on the movie "The Power of One". This movie takes place in South Africa during the apartheid times. There is a lot of racism towards blacks and they are treated unjustly.  So in this project I took the South African flag and desaturated it just a little bit so it was a duller color. I then created a border around the flag. After that I used the text and typed the word Revolution. In the movie you can feel that their is a change or revolution about to happen, that is why I chose this word. 

"The Power of One; Poster"

This is a project based on the movie "The Power of One". The movie takes place in Africa so I decided to find an image of your stereotypical african sunset tree. I then found an image of the character Peekay and his mentor from the movie and used the effect overlay on it so it blended in with the sunset. I then added a simple text of the movie title under the tree.

"Color Wheel Stencil"

The idea of this project was that we would take an image and make a stencil out of it. We would then have to fill that stencil with a color or a texture. In the first one I took a picture of a water fountain, i then took pictures of different textures or patterns that I saw. I then filled the stencil of the water fountain with those pictures. I also then put a gradient as the background. I really like how it turned out. The one below it I used pictures of anchors that I found on the internet and created stencils out of them as well. For the background i used a gradient and also a pattern of colored circles giving it a colorful, dreamy, Willy Wonka effect. 

"100% Authentic"

This are both projects that are 100% my work. I took all the pictures you see in the projects and I edited them and got these 2. The person I used in both of my projects is my friend Andrew. In the first one, i made it look like there were 7 morphs of him and then i edited them, until there was one remaining and that was the original version. In the 2nd picture i used the same image and put him in a backdrop that I took and showed a metamorphosis of him from a small dude to a big dude.

"The MET"

This is a picture of a Barber Shop. It was done by Kota Ezawa who is a german artist. I really like the colors and the angle of the Barber Shop shown in the picture. He changed the colors to shades of White, Black, and Grey. He also changed the picture to more of a comic or cartoon looking piece. It is really well done and I would like to try something like this in the future.