Friday, April 9, 2010

Pure, Gray, Madness

 Pure (8.5 in x 11 in), photoshop, 2/16/2010


 Gray (8.5 in x 11 in), photoshop, 2/16/2010


 Madness (8.5 in x 11 in), photoshop, 2/16/2010

Pure, Gray, Madness is my first photoshop project.  All three parts of the project consist of pictures of Patti Brummett and various areas around Oxford and Sardis Lake.  All three pieces work together to illustrate a transition from something that is of purity and good to something gray and unsure, to something maddening and chaotic.  The inspiration for this project came from Edgar Allan Poe's The Bells, which also illustrates the movement from innocent to darkness.


Madness is my favorite out of the three parts.  Unlike Pure where I put the picture of the sunset over the pictures of Patti and used the eraser tool to make her come through, and the Gray piece where I used black and white and a blur outline tool to make them all fit together, Madness was first done like the Gray piece but then I used the Polygonal Lasso Tool to cut pieces out of the each picture to make the picture behind it poke out.  Giving almost a broken glass effect.


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