Charlotte's Blog

1. The message of my piece is that we should not dwell on the past or worry about what will happen in the future because we miss opportunities in the present because of focusing on these things. 2. The viewer will play with the fortune teller like you would a real one and open the folds and flaps to reveal messages that contribute to my theme. 3. My color scheme is rectangle or tetradic. 4. The emphasis in my piece is on the image at the center of the design. It is the last thing that is revealed by the viewer and brings together the color scheme, and my theme.

For me, the mask tool was very useful in creating this piece, especially with the creatures in the back. I used it to help fit those whales/ dolphin into their environment and make them look as realistic as possible. It was also helpful in creating the shimmering water effects for the top of the picture. I also used the tool that made the changes of a certain layer only apply to the layer directly under it so it wouldn't change anything else. 

To create visual interest I tried to find contrasting images in both color and subject. The mountains had a bluer hue while the underlying image was of an orange sunset in a city. 

Mawkish [ maw -kish] adjective 1. characterized   by   sickly   sentimentality;   weakly   emotional;   maudlin. 2. having   a   mildly   sickening   flavor;   slightly   nauseating.

Monochrome

I thought of making a word search for my poster when we learned about the grid tool. To play off the word search theme I wanted the message of the poster to be about searching for something. In this case it was searching for happiness. I typed random letters and spaced them far apart. I then copied and pasted the group of letters four times to fill the page. Then, after expanding I was able to use the gaussian blur tool to make the unimportant letters out of focus, which draws your attention to the words of the quote. To further emphasize them, I changed some of the words to red. To place the words in straight lines, I used the align tool making it look like a real word search. The message of the poster is "The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness"- Eric Hoffer

I first wanted to get images that had similar colors because I would eventually try to make it look like one transformed into the other. I then image traced each image and then expanded them so I would be able to pick apart the pieces. I then arranged the pieces and screenshot each stage and arranged them on the blog to look like the pieces from the giraffe image reshaped to form the leopard picture.

Maps Fills page map Patterns page map

Cover page Fills page Colors page Analogous color scheme Lines page Patterns page