Wednesday 2nd June 2010

Final class today, I presented my finals today. HOPE EVERYONE LIKES THEM.

1. MELBOURNE’S SUBURBAN CLOUDS
Photo taken on a 6mp camera
Manipulated on Photoshop with multiple layers
I have added highlights and low lights
I have changed the density of colour
I have darkened the land on purpose because I wanted the sky to stand out.
I have used two images and joined them together by adding more clouds
This was difficult because I couldn’t tell when one cloud was starting and the other one was ending.

2. ‘MELBOURNE’ BANNER
Taken on a 12 mp camera.
I used Photoshop.
I cropped each image using the quick selection tool by adding and subtracting parts I wanted and didn’t want.
I then copied and transformed each image to make them fit all together.
This set up reminds me of the old ABC TV days when they use to get kids to spell out words.

3. WALKING THROUGH MELBOURNE
I used Photoshop
I used smudging in between the legs because I couldn’t subtract the area.
I used the magic wand tool to add and subtract the background.
I added a dark contrast to add mystery because you can’t see where they are going.
I changed the gamma colour, lowered the density, added a blue filter and changed the hue colour.
I flipped the background image.
I made the magpie darker so it stood out as well as changed the light colour of the lamp post.
This image creates an optical illusion because the image of 2 females in the foreground are the same dimensions as the same image in the background. Even thought to the eye it looks larger.
Influenced by Andrea Polli.

4. FOREVERCHANGING WEATHER.
I used Photoshop
I started of by smudging all the clouds together.
I then added highlights using the blur tool.
I then used the magic wand and highlighted the area of the house in the foreground and on the top left hand side another house and used a sketch filter of charcoal.
This created a dark black overlay with a white outline which I liked.
I then smudged out the fence line so the white wasn’t so visible to the house.

5. EVERCHANGING BLUE SKY
Took an hour film of the sky.
Set up digital camcorder in my backyard.
Using Final Cut Pro I condensed the 60 minute footage into 6 minutes.
I had to cut certain areas and changed the speed at which it would be played.
Normal speed is 100% and at times my video ranges from 25% to 5000%.
As I was watching the footage I noticed some birds flying across so I have slowed down the video so you can see them.

Wednesday 26th May 2010

Today's tutorial started off with watching some video's made by various artists, including Tony Oursler and Mathew Barneys's Cresmaster cycle. I found the Cresmaster cycle very disturbing because people we dying and it was very subjective but I did relay love the work of Tony Oursler. specially the first couple we watched of a fist hitting a table that was projected onto a building. i could image a person starting just underneath and being scared out of their wits because this big fist is coming down.

Today I finished off my movie on Final Cut Pro and I think I have completed my last final as well. I didn't have any of my pictures saved on my USB but i did have an image I had experimented with and added some more to it. The image is of clouds and the pictures really spoke to me because I had never seen clouds spaced out like this before. i did use a smudging tool and made the house in the foreground darker.

Hopefully I will be able to present next week and tomorrow I will head out to Officeworks and get all my work printed.

Wednesday 19th May 2010

Today was our second lesson about Video art and considering I have already filmed my Video I was really booking forward to learning about how to turn my recording into art work.

Jenna taugh me how to use Final Cut Pro as to iMovie beacuse she knew that program better. It didn't really matter to me because I have never used either.

We started the session off today with people's presentaions about their first completed artwork then had quiet time to work on our own projects. Before our time was up Jenna went thought a tutorial about artists Video art. Some of it was very weird. We watched one video for about 4 minutes and it was about a guy who was walking into a pool and then jumped and then was frozen in the air. I expected him to go in but he just stayed there. Then he disapeared and then walked away frm the pool.

I can't wait until next week when i can hopefully finish off my video and come up with an idea for my last digital art piece. I have 8 images of clouds I would like to use but i'm not sure how. There are elements of shape in each so I might incorportae that in some way.

12th May 2010

Its been a while. Two weeks of placement has flow past and lucky this class temporary closed for the time being. Coming back was good, I had a lot of ideas and questions.

Today we looked at video art and different artists that have influenced this particular type of art during the years. we particularly looked at Nam Jane Piak video's on YouTube. Other people's work was weird and a bit unsettling to watch. after that we say how to use a video camera but because I had already taped my clouds video I just continued with my work.

Today I finished another final. I will post this image up. I was very Happy with it because it had my 2 friends in it as well as an idea I had come up with.
I want to find an artist who has done similar work so when I present my artwork, I can talk about my influences. I have digitally changed a lot of this image for instance the colour as you can plainly see.

I will be looking at the video art world website and choosing an artist who I find interesting and adding some of their work onto my blog.

The artist whos work I found interesting was Claire Bain. Born in New Mexico, United States, 1975.
Her film work has informed my painting and photography, and vice versa. She has two approaches to film/video. One is more formal, primarily concerned with light, composition, emulsion and rhythm; meaning reveals itself gradually or indirectly. The other approach is a direct communication of thoughts, observations and questions through the use of characters.

I choose Clair Bain becasue of the work she has done with cats, I have not seen it all but from what I have its humourous.

April 21st 2010

Today Jenna bought in the Tablets and the pens again for us to work on. But first we went through presentations and I was first to present. How fun. I showed my final (will also post on here) and talked about the program and where I got my ideas from and my topic. I passed around my final as I spoke about it.

Jenna went through how to create a clone on Corel painter X as well as animation. She explained that with animation there are about 25 stills per second and that if it was a movie that goes for 2 minutes there will be a lot and a lot of stills.

During the day I worked on my second Final. During the Ester break i went over to my friends house and with her 12mp camera I took photos of 3 of my friends making out each letter spelling out Melbourne with their bodies. I opened up all the letters in Photoshop and traced around their bodies using the quick selection tool and then copied and pasted them onto another canvas that was much wider. This final product reminds me of the ABC channel and how they use kids to spell out words. I am extremely happy with this final, all I need to do now is to figure out how I am going to produce them.

April 14th 2010

Today we worked on the drawing tablets. It was a good change to working with a mac computer. Jenna went over different ways of approaching a task and ways of using the program Corel painter X. This is properly my favourite program. It is exactly like drawing with real materials but instead we are stuck in front of a computer screen. I didn't have an idea to use with the program for today but will think about it and next week we will be working on the Tablets as well.

I'm presenting one of my final art pieces next week. I have one, and i think its a good start. I am happy with my first attempt of anything digital ever produced.
My other 5 finals include a movie about clouds, and some other images that I will manipulate using programs discussed previously.

The image above is one i constructed using the Tablet as well as the pen instead of the mouse. It took a while to get use to but it was well worth it. In this image I highlighted the word and used a lot of different manipulations.

March 31st 2010

Today's class was based on collage.
We looked at the work of Picasso and Braque in the early 19th century. These artworks were posted on the digital art blog by Jenna.
This consists of our lecture where we view images and talk about ideas that we will be exploring during the day.
I asked today about how I get my movie on to the computer and Jenna informed me that I need a external hard drive. So she helped me partition my hard drive.
She also informed me that because I have the information/ movie on a DV tape that I already have a hard copy.
After all he fiddling around I started working on my clouds images I took last week just walking around VU. Jenna showed us on the board how to copy and paste and highlight and place two images together. I played around with the gradient on the images and tried encompassing different aspects of different images/clouds together.

March 23rd 2010

Today we looked at Digital Photography. When I picked Introduction to Digital art this is what i thought it was all about. Obviously I was wrong. But surprised by today. We looked at some artwork and then discussed digital camera and the different settings you can use and change.

The artworks we were looking at all told a story and were presented like a movie scene. The different between art photography and snap shots is that photography coveys a message that snap shots doesn't. Jenna then took us over to the Filming studio and I took a photo of the room and after that we wondered around the UNI grounds and took photos with our digital camera.

I finally understood what i wanted to achieve in my final and today i nearly completed a final artwork. I was so proud. Today was a great day beacuse Jenna spent some time going over and over my assignment and the requirments with me so i'm all set now to complete my final folio.

During the week i had been writting down ideas and drawing little sketches of what i want to achieve and today was great beacuse we got to work with Photoshop and i found that to be a great program to use. prefer that over illustrator. I can't wait until we use the drawing tablets but for now i want to finalise my proposal and finish off one of my artworks and print it out.

March 17th 2010

Today we started the lesson off by watching some clips about Phone art and the different ways you can use mobiles in a creative maner. We also looked at differnt websites and how other people uses phones in their art.

We bought our mobile phones to school like always but we were allowed to use them in class aswell. Jenna showed us how to turn on bluetooth and how to transfer things from phone to mac and mac to phone. This is completely different from a PC.

I played around on Adobe Illustator today again and I think I picked up more but it is still very complicated.

I spoke to Jenna about my topic for my assignments about messages. She spoke to me for a while about what I can do but I struggling with the concept aswell. The work I was doing was to commercial or looked to much like scrapbooking, which is what I love to do but its not Digital Art. I am extremely confused with what is considered Digita Art and what is not. This is something I will have to explore more about.

I was a bit frustrated by the end of class because I know my topic isn;t strong or that I don;t have a good foundation to work off and it frustrates me that these Mac are confusing to work with but it is a challenge.

March 10th 2010

This image is Typomin M fro website listed below.


In today's class we looked at some Digital Art websites, in particular looking at Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer. There are was very political and eye catching and large.

After looking at images we were asked to brain storm some ideas and write them down. Firstly I thought of the colour's of the rainbow, in a spiral with the words getting larger as the spiral gets bigger. Then I was coming up with emotive words like love, passion, power, integrity, all words that mean so much by themselves. the other idea I have was a simple flower with 5 petals and writing all the different types of flowers inside the flower.

After our brainstorm Jenna showed us how to use Adobe Illustrator CS4. This program was very tricky and complicated. You understand how to do something one time but by the time you go to do it again you have forgotten and being on an Apple Mac computer it is more difficult for me because I love PCs. I have written notes to myself as to how the program words but it will be hard because I don't have this program at home.

At the end of class Jenna showed us how to burn our work onto a CD. I bought a USB down so I just used that but its nice to know that you can burn more than one time on a DVD/CD.

I did like some on the work that was posted on the Digital Art blog made by Jenna. The website for these images are as follows:
http://www.tutorial9.net/resources/32-beautiful-text-art-creations/
each image gives me an idea of what I could possible achieve in my own artwork.

March 4th 2010

First- Time spend alone - David Wicks 2008

Second - Bedside Dreams -Quim Alcantara 2010

First 3 hour class of 'Introduction to Digital Art' with Jenna Corcoran.

I hope to get an understanding and appreciation for digital art throught this 12 week subject. I want to have a better understanding of digital technology as well as presenting ideas in a digital manner.

I had a look on the Rhizome website and found an artist artwork that did look quite appealing to me but it was in a different language. The artist is Quim Alcantara. I did find his artwork within the website but its not much use if it is not English.

Another artist digital artwork that has caught my eye was David Wicks - Time spend alone. This artwork was make on 10/2/2008.