Week 5 - Collage

Today we looked at different artworks involving collage. This is something I want to use in one or more of my final artworks. I was experimenting with a portrait taken of my housemate and some other pictures I took, putting them into Photoshop and using vector masks and layers to create a collage look.

Week 4 - Photography

Photography is something I want to incorporate into my digital art project as the base or core of each artwork. Today I worked on a picture of myself and my boyfriend in Photoshop, using text and line on the shape of his face. I also experimented with colour, brightness, contrast and effects to change the photo from it's original state. It was initially taken on an iphone camera so it is very low quality, but I like the way it gave the photo an old fashioned look after being altered.

Original photo taken by me on iphone

Photo altered in Photoshop

Week 3 - Mobile Phone Art

Today we looked at the idea of using your mobile phone to create or assist in art. I wanted to start with an idea of sending a random image, which I took on my mobile phone to a bunch of friends and ask them to reply via a photo taken on their mobile. So far this is the outcome...



Depending on the initial image and the location and interpretation of each individual, I have received varying mms images. This could begin the basis of an artwork, become a collage or perhaps even a projection of images relating to the initial topic.

Here is another string of photos taken with the initial image of my foot haha

Week 2 - Text Art

I started experimenting with text art on illustrator. I used my name in a script font then created outlines for each letter then warped it randomly to create a spilled ink, sharp and dark look. I also used the pen tool to draw a simple black bow then warped the ends, which kind of made it appear like it had fangs.

After discussing The Angry Penguins and the spawn of poet Ern Malley's random creations, I was inspired to create a text artwork based on The Exquisite Corpse Game. This was a game the Surrealist artisit's used to play in which each artist would draw or write anything on a section of paper, fold it over, then pass it around. By the end, the result would be a random poem or artwork.

I used some old magazines and cut out random words, mixed them up and put them together to form sentences. The result was something quite weird and imaginative. I could use this as inspiration for an artwork or alone as photographic text art.

Lately I have been drawing and looking at keys for my still life art class and this is something that could relate to my theme, with the idea of secrets, hidden places and thoughts. I took a few pictures of a collection of keys I have, I put it into Illustrator and used an effect on the picture then wrapped the text around it, with some lyrics I have written.

Week 1

My first blog post -
Hi, my name is Cassandra. Today I attended my first digital art class, which I am excited to be taking this semester. My study background is in music and I play bass, guitar & sing, however I also have a passion for art, especially Surrealism, Illustrative Art & Tattoo style imagery. During class I am looking forward to learning how to use digital art programs such as Illustrator and Photoshop to offer a new medium in which I can use to create and modify art. I want my art to be inspired by surrealism, the mind, secrets, memories and music & lyrics.
Some Artists whom I admire include, Salvador Dali, H.R Giger, Rene' Magritte, Mark Ryden, Bill Ward, Alberto Vargas and many more.




After checking out rhizome.org I found a few different works which interested me.
The first which stood out to me was a piece by Michael Demers, titled 'The Ghost of Vannevar Bush Hacked My Server', 2009. I like the way this image looks ghost like and almost hazy and blurry. The image is made up of binary code which consists of various patterns of 1's and 0's. This image appeared at random on Demers' server, which he then copied and pasted onto a blank page and the haunting visualisation of a man appeared. Demers thought this image resembled a man named Vannevar Bush. Bush was an American engineer, born in 1940, who played a part in developing the atomic bomb, creating initial structures for the internet and was a technological innovator.


I found a picture of Vannevar Bush on wikipedia (below) and I can see some sort of a ressembelance to how he may have looked when he was younger. What do you think?

To read more:

http://rhizome.org/object.php?o=49488&m=1059508

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush

I also wanted to post this work, as I like the look of the mixed up sections of photos, I may use this as inspiration for one of my digital art works. The artist is Troy Bennett and the artwork is based on human expressions and the way they show different personaility traits of a person.

http://rhizome.org/object.php?o=8905&m=1011755

www.human-intoface.net