Blog #5

1. My most significant accomplishment in looking at my midterm project is creating a meaningful work. I feel like this artwork really reflects my big idea of emotions and it is something that is very important to me. It was a very hard time for me after my uncle had passed and I tried to portray the powerful emotion I felt after he passed.

2. Coming into this art education class I had no photoshop experience at all. Every new concept and technique I learned in photoshop seemed challenging at first and I had to work at it a lot. At first I could not grasp the concepts of layers. I was never sure how to make selections and then create new layers and make adjustments. My first quiz on the left shows my little knowledge of photoshop and my inability to overlap layers and make adjustments. There was definitely too much open space in this artwork. Quiz 4 on the right shows my improvement. I have now mastered the concept of layers and I am able to make selections and adjustments to enhannce my artwork.

3. At the beginning of the course I was not worried about making meaning to my artwork. It was more about learning photoshop techniques and trying to master them. Throughout the quarter I learned about how important it is to have meaning to your artwork. In the examples below, the flower on the left had no importance to me, it was a quiz about selections. For that artwork I just focused on making detailed selections and worked with image adjustments. On the other hand, my midterm project on the right was more than just trying to perfect photoshop techniques. It was about trying to portray a meaningful idea. Unlike the flower, my midterm project was important to me and had powerful emotions and feelings behind it.