The self portrait was my first project at Freestyle Academy. The assignment was to give viewers more background information about who I am. I had to communicate this information through a Diptych and an Illustration displayed on my website.
Welcome to my Narrative Project.
The goal for this unit at Freestyle Academy was to create a structured story, and display it using different Adobe applications. This project started in English with my short story, which was an open ended writing project. For Design class we created a photo narrative, and an illustration. For Web-Audio class we made an animatic, and an animation based on our short story.
For the documentary project we were told to explore real world issues that affect our community. I chose to document Planet Granite, an indoor rock climbing gym. Using communication skills I had to assemble interviews, picture, and insert them into a book I created about Planet Granite.
Welcome to my Freestyle Experimental Project,
For this unit we had to express ourselves through songs, poems, artwork, and website designs.
Surrealism Artist Statement
For the background layer of my Surrealist piece I took a photo of the night sky with a full moon. The moon created a white glowing ring around it. I also took an HDR photo of thick, white clouds and layered it over the sky. For my focal point I chose to use a 180 degree panorama of the Shoreline amphitheater. Using Adobe Photoshop I stitched the photo together to make a sphere, and cut out the center. I copy-pasted a smaller sphere inside the other 3 times to make an inception effect. I used complementary color schemes of blue and orange and red and green. I also added a silhouette of a women doing a yoga pose on a rope that links the two shoreline tents. There are birds hanging on the tightrope upside down and the women is metamorphosing into a bird as she grows golden wings from her back.
Welcome to my last Freestyle Website of Senior year,
During this project at Freestyle we got to medidate in our Design classroom. After clearing our mind of thoughts we were given several topics to freewrite and reflect on. I chose to write mine on Anticipation. For the humor project we had to create an art piece that used humor to provoke thought as well as laughter.
Anticipation is the need to know something before it happens. Whether it is not knowing your results on a certain test for school, work, or cancer. It is what causes stress or anxiety in most people. A world without anticipation would make our world that much closer to perfection. Some argue that anticipation is a great part of our society and that we could not live without it. Although we cannot erase this emotion, anticipation is just another feeling that makes us human. For the background in this piece I took a photo of a couple of roses and mirrored it across the whole art to make it look like a full bed of roses. I also drew a skeleton sitting on a guitar with a tree for his brain. The tree’s trunk goes across his nose and is digging its roots through the skull and setting into his teeth. Another tree behind the skeleton is growing out of the guitar hole. A crow is resting on one of the branches and has a skeleton inside of him.
For my Humor piece I decided to employ the humor device, satire. This humor is the use of irony, exaggeration, and ridicule to expose and criticize people's hypocrisy or vices. I use all these factors to criticize people’s obsession with time. As modern day high schoolers we are overwhelmed with projects and assignments, which leave us with little to no free time. I think we should work against this idea of overscheduling our lives and teach ourselves to live in the present. The message this piece is sending is that everything is constantly changing; and that there is no present time.
To create this composition I first used Adobe Photoshop to create the orange background and the lines separating the text from the art. I then used Illustrator to create the running silhouettes around the armb and all typography in this piece.
