Sunday, 8 January 2012

Alternative Process


This alternative process is called gel medium. In this process you take a picture you have taken, print it, and place it on a board. You then hold it down using tape and paint the gel onto the picture. I chose to make a laptop case. For my laptop case I needed twice the amount so I printed off two pictures. I started by brushing a thin layer vertically across the paper. Every time it dried I would put a thin layer the opposite way. This would make it thicker and stronger. Once I put around 15 layers on I waited until it dried and then put it in water. From there I scrubbed the paper off until it was as see through as possible. I then stretched it to make it fit the top of my laptop and used wires to make it stay on. The picture I used was one of the pictures from below (breaking the rules).
 

Toronto

Monday, 19 December 2011

Silk Screen

For this project I used a picture that I already had. I took out the background in photoshop so that when I put it through the silk screen you would only be able to see the bodies. I thought this picture was perfect because it has a meaning. Also the clothing is perfect. The man on the right has a different coloured suit. This puts emphasis on him being separate. I put the picture in the corner of the shirt because i thought that if it was in the middle it wouldn't look as nice. This way your eye is drawn to the corner of the shirt using rule of thirds.