Alien

I am from the galaxy of Cartwheel. Yes, it is the real name of the galaxy... I am not kidding. I am your typical teenage girl who is going to rant about this picture because everyone seems to hate their license picture. I finally got my license to fly UFOs (the new special one that go super fast so i can hop from galaxy to galaxy)... and this is how the picture came out. Can't I add one of those "Instagram filters" the humans use? I've seen some of those pictures and I must say the filters do help out some people. Anyway, now I can fly over to the Sunflower galaxy and visit my friend! My mom won't let me go to Sombrero galaxy. I guess they have some raging parties there? But I shouldn't be complaining because now I can go wherever I want whenever I want. So to wrap it up, I think i am going to head over to the Milky Way and disguise my self as a human and mess with some people! See ya!

Fairy Tale

I based this piece off of the tale of Little Red Riding Hood. Instead of meeting a wolf in the woods, she encounters dangerous crocodiles in the swamp. I found a girl walking and added a cape
to represent that she is little red riding hood. I put in three crocodiles surrounding her. The reflections were important to add because the swamp is very clear and the trees have an almost exact replication in their reflection. The original background was green. To enunciate the red in her cape, I changed the hue of the background to be red, but I wanted it to be more dramatic. I changed the paint brush mode to saturation and removed the color in everything but the trees, her cape, and the crocodiles, so they would stand out. I took on a darker interpretation of the common fairy tale.

Hybrid Animal

For this artwork, I combined a frog, whale, and turtle to create a Wurgle. The frog represents agility, speed, and jumping and it symbolizes fitness. The whale represents peace and friendliness. The turtle stands for grace and a calm and composed attitude. All three animals have some connection to water, which is something close to me in my life. The Wurgle's nest needs improvement, but I think that the sense of space was depicted well in this artwork. On the closest Wurlge, I angled him in a way that made the head seem larger and the tail seem smaller so it look like it was swimming towards you and not horizontally. I also placed a Wurgle near the ship wreck, made it smaller in size, and turned the opacity down. I was also able to show the predators by inserting the shadow of a lurking shark. I think that people who have a connection to the ocean and marine life will enjoy this piece of artwork. I was able to learn and experiment using the cloning tool while creating the hybrid animal.

Alternate World

Symmetry and Balance

Balance and symmetry all relate to the way things are placed in a piece of art. Symmetry is mirroring an image. Both sides of the artwork are exactly alike. In my kaleidoscope, I used balance and symmetry by duplicating the original image and flipping it over each axis to create a mirror image. To add more to its affect, I duplicated the whole picture and just made it smaller in most cases. It helped to create more visual interest and depth in the picture. Now there is more than one exact copy of the picture in the artwork. I used the rulers in Photoshop to make sure the picture was aligned directly in the center to maximize the result. Each side of the artwork is a replica of the original image.

Kaleidoscopes

15 Green Things