Cubism

          This next assignment required the creation of a cubism picture. Instead of using multiple angles of one picture to create the image, I decided to use two similar objects to create one. For this I used my two dogs. I first took a picture of both of my dogs looking at the camera. I then removed the background of the image because I wanted the focus on the blending of the two dogs, not the kitchen that they were in at the time. To create the image I outlined the background with the lasso tool and erased it. I then selected random parts of both dogs with the square select tool, then copied and pasted on to new layers. After creating a sufficient amount of random squares, I put them together like a puzzle but with no correct placement for the pieces. I like this image, but that is biased because it consists of my dogs.

Multicultural Festival

 

This next task involved creating a poster to promote the Multicultural Festival. When I read the title, "One World Living Together" I started to think of a wall of flags. It represents how we hold this world together as one, and we build and create for each other. I decided to put this wall of flags inside a heart to obviously represent love. We must love and respect other cultures just as we love and respect our own. We have only one world and we all have to inhabit it. Why not show care to all the cultures who live on this world with us. We are all one united family and the multicultural festival is a perfect way to share new things with our family.

I first collected a group of flags that I thought best showed the variety that the world holds. I then made a layer of the dark aqua colour that I thought was a great colour to compliment all the different colours on the flags. I then selected the heart shape and deleted the colour inside to make it look as thought the flags are creating the heart. I then made the shapes around the heart with the line tool and filled them with a lighter blue colour. I think all the colours on this poster go well together and compliment each other just like all the cultures on this earth, we compliment each other in varying ways.

My thoughts My expressions My poetry...

Sometimes telling someone how you feel isn't enough. Poetry is all about expression and emotion, and the life of being a teenager is definitely filled with emotion. Poetry is a powerful output to express the way you feel, and gives you the ability to influence others just by writing a few words. The reason for the cover that I created was to express the powerful emotion found in poetry, especially that which is found in a teenager's writing. Reading last year's poetry was surprising for me. I didn't realize the varying emotions that were so present in the students of this school, especially the most common which seems to be poems dealing with sadness. In other words "teen angst", which is the main reason for the almost depressing colour choices. Although I have two main images on my page, the subdued effect on the limp rose brings out the main focus of the page, the fairy. I chose a picture not showing any expression on the face to show how much body language can affect how you believe people feel, yet there is no way to prove how someone is feeling. This is the reason I chose the particular picture of this fairy. No one can prove how she is feeling, she may have a smile on her face but it is hidden by her arms. Teenagers do this all the time, they hide their real emotions by acting happy yet they may be very sad, but writing poetry can let them show how they truly feel through words, because sometimes it's just too challenging to show how you feel towards others. Hopefully, in some way, teenagers can understand that if they truly showed how they feel, they will see that it's okay to be themselves and express themselves towards other people.