Justin Trudeau Photoshop Exercise

           

11 years old Samantha Metcalfe and Cailyn Degrandpre throat sings during Justin Trudeau's ceremony.

Inuit throat singers were invited to perform during Justin Trudeau's swearing-in ceremony for the first time. After learning more about the aboriginal's culture and their history I think it was a very loving and honourable moment. The aboriginal people that have been ignored for years are finally getting more attention and people are starting to appreciate them. Although the process may be slow, at least everything is changing. 

The performance was breath taking, I seriously don't know how on earth to sing like that. Singing from your throat takes a lot of talent and I thought it was very interesting. It's great that kids are performing so that the kids, the future will have more experience and would treasure the memories.

Beautiful Digital Art

I personally found this picture on Pinterest which I think is very interesting. 

This is Medusa~~~~

Photo Scavenger Hunt - Composition

                                                           

Composition: Depth Linear Perspective

Tool: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (crop tool, levels)

Definition: Depth linear perspective is when parallel lines 

appear to intersect at some point in the distance. 

The intersecting point is called the "Vanishing Point". 

Why I Chose the Photo: In the picture you can see that the walls and the lines of the floor tile eventually become smaller, and their distance shrinks as the picture goes further. There is a noticeable vanishing point at the door, where everything ends there. 

Composition: Asymmetrical Balance 

Tool: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (crop tool, levels)

Definition: Asymmetrical Balance is when the photo is not equal on both side (one side seem heavier than the other)

Why I Chose the Photo: In the picture on both side everything seems balanced 

but the bulletin board on the right gives it more weight than the other side therefore it is an asymmetrical balance.

Composition: Depth Overlapping

Tool: None

Definition: Depth overlapping is when objects go over another to create depth.

Why I Chose the Photo: In the picture you can see the main focus is a locker that is in between in a line of lockers beside one another. There is a clear foreground that had been blur on purpose and middle ground with the line of lockers as the background in the back.

Composition: Rule of Thirds

Tool: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (crop tool, levels, curves)

Definition: Rule of thirds is when a photo is divided into thirds with two imaginary lines vertically and two horizontally. This creates three columns, three rows and nine section in the photo. Rule of thirds is basically the photo that is taken using the imaginary grid to space out the image. 

Why I Chose the Photo: If you cut the picture into equal lines of two vertically and horizontally, you can see that the main focus in the photo is placed between the lines leaning to the center right of the image.

Composition: Human-made Framing

Tool: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (crop tool, levels, curves)

Definition: Human-made framing is when something that is human-made wraps around the main object as a border which then directs the audience's eyes into the main focus more.

Why I Chose the Photo: In the picture you can see that the glass surrounds the person as an outline or border which makes the person pop out a lot more.

Composition: Intentional Blur

Tool: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (crop tool, levels)

Definition: Intentional blur is when fast moving objects are blurred on purpose to create a moving effect.

Why I Chose the Photo: In the picture you can see that the person is spinning and is blurred while the background is still.

Composition: Leading Lines

Tool: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (crop tool, levels, curves)

Definition: Leading lines is when lines natural or not is used to direct a person's eye to the main focus of the photo.

Why I Chose the Photo: In the picture you can see that the fence has lines that points straight to the person.

Composition: Selective Focus

Tool: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (crop tool, levels)

Definition: Selective focus is when an image has an object with all the spotlight on it while the background and other things surrounding the object is blurred out.  

Why I Chose the Photo: In this picture you can see that the lock is focused while everything around it is blurred out.

Composition: Breaking Pattern

Tool: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (crop tool, levels)

Definition: Breaking pattern is when an object (design, etc.) is repeated but then there is something in the way that breaks the pattern.

Why I Chose the Photo: In this picture you can see that the books are the same looking, straight and tall but there is one book that is sticking out and is shorter than the rest breaking the unison. 

Composition: Form

Tool: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (crop tool)

Definition: Form is when the object is a form (a 3-dimensional shape)

Why I Chose the Photo: In this picture you can see that textures and shade of the 3-D foot which is a form.

ABORIGINAL ART ANALYSIS

           Androgyny is the name of one in many beautiful paintings by the famous Ojibwa artist, Norval Morrisseau. Created in 1983, the artwork is 366cm x 610cm in size. Like all of his other works, he painted using mostly acrylic for this one too. Androgyny is filled with natural aspects resulting to a very busy and compact effect. There is a hill right on the bottom center with a hole inside filled with fish swimming to the left. While, the hill itself has a lot of animals that are connected with thin lines and a human lying against the tunnel. A snake's tail is seen half wrapped around the human’s head. However the snake’s head was faced to the center of the painting, poking halfway out of the hill.

On top of the hill, there are three humans on each side of the painting walking to the middle. Following the humans, there are ducks, and bird type creatures. Surrounding the animals there are colourful butterflies and flowers, mostly pink, red, blue and orange to create a busier feel to the artwork. A hole appears in the middle center, which is right on top of the bottom tunnel. In the center a big eagle with its wings out flying, is painted there. The eagle is made up with blue and red colours, which contrast with the yellow background and once again the lines, are very squiggly but smooth. Humans stood underneath the eagle and were painted brown with red circles floating in the air, specifically in the eagle’s hole. The painting overall caught my eye because of the bright contrast and unique choice of colours. 

The very first thing that drew my attention when looking at the picture was of course the eagle in the center. All of the animals, humans, butterflies, flowers and etc. were headed to the center where the eagle was. Lines and shapes were almost as if it was directly pointing your eyes to the image, making it clear to look in the middle where all of the others were heading. Not only did the lines and shapes guide the eyes, this artist made the rest of the picture busy while he left the middle a lot less busy to pull the eye to the middle. Using a brighter yellow for the background of the eagle also helped with the guide, I'm sure that most of the people who had seen this art would have looked at the eagle first and I must say the artist did a great job projecting people to the main character of the painting. 

Looking at this art, I see it as people, animals, plants and basically everything on earth is bowing down to the ruler or creator. They are shown to be very focused on the eagle, paying close attention while the big bird is in the air spreading its wings majestically stating that it is in a higher ranking than the others. This is most likely a representation of life, the world’s ruler that connects everyone and everything together. The artist went with a very natural way of presenting the art adding more effect to what I think the meaning is behind this piece of painting. Since I had done some research about the eagle and aboriginal people, the eagle represented love and is known to be the closest to communicate with the creator because eagles can fly up the highest. I think the artist is trying to get the audience to interpret the painting this way. However this is just my way of seeing the art, many others have different perspective like this artwork may mean something else, with a whole different meaning to it. 

At first glance I would describe this artwork as a busy piece of art, but taking a closer look I think the painting gives off a happy, positive and united feeling. The artwork overall is very detailed and there are many hidden messages making it something inspirational. I really like inspiring or any art with a deep meaning behind it. It gives off something even more special when there's a hidden important lesson in the artwork, which this painting has. All in all, I feel really attracted to the united and feeling as if everything is together as one in the painting. 

          

ART ASSIGNMENT

For our art class, we are to work with our assigned partner to create a watercolour painting using ink and the watercolour technique that we have learn throughout the classes.

We had to pick from a box that had the "Seven Grandfather Teachings" options inside. my partner and I chose the eagle which represents love.

EAGLE- LOVE

Short Film Festival Trip

     Today we went on a field trip downtown to participate in the mini festival. There were many short films there, some were interesting and some were bland but the one that caught my eye the most was "In the Rubbish Tin". Although the film was short and there were limited time, I was able to grasp the characters and the little meanings that were shown. 

     "In the Rubbish Tin", the story was about a young girl abandoned on her birthday, a special day that had gone bad. Right from the morning, no one was found home and all the little girl had was her teddy bear, it was her only toy. This showed how the parents didn't care about her safety, her life and if she is even alive. She walked alone down the lonely neighborhood to create herself a cake. The cake was made out of trash like a broken beer bottle and a wheel stating that she doesn't know what is dangerous since she plays with broken glass or that since her parents drank it she thought it was appropriate thing to play with. The teddy bear would represent herself,  abused and yelled at for doing nothing, the teddy bear was the forgotten little girl. 

     I had always enjoyed anything that have deep meanings behind what the thing really was. In this film, like I said there were plenty of hints showing a deeper message in the scene and the character was described well during a short period of time. 

This is a picture of "In the Rubbish Tin"