Photoshop Art

For this project, we used Photoshop to learn new techniques to create digital watercolor and pastel paintings, photography conversions, and 360 art.

Photoshop Pastel & Watercolor Painting

Photoshop Painting Artist Statement

For this Photoshop digital painting project, I chose to create a digital watercolor painting. My piece was based off of a photograph that I took beforehand. In the artwork, there is a man walking with a surfboard along the coastline cliff with the ocean as backdrop. I really appreciate the simplicity of this artwork and how the solitary surfer complements the background ocean colors. A challenge that I dealt with was coming up with an idea to start the project; I brainstormed a bunch of ideas and did some practice paintings before I began crafting the actual piece. If I were to go back and recreate this piece, I would make the sides of the tree branches and the cliff softer colors and edges because it would add more depth and unity to the artwork as a whole .  

Overall, I really enjoyed experimenting with the different brush strokes in Photoshop and found it fascinating that Photoshop enabled me to make the artwork look as if it was a physical watercolor painting. I will definitely use the skills and techniques I learned through this project in the future. 

Photoshop Photo Compositing

For this project, we made several different artworks using the photo compositing technique.

360 Practice

Multi Layered Art Project

Artist Statement

For the Multi Layer Art Project, I chose to create a ring wood artwork inspired by the city of Amsterdam. The process began with sketching out an original design and developing the idea. My original intention was to create a stacked wood art project, but I ultimately switched to ring art, as it matched with my idea best. Using Adobe Illustrator, I created the five layers of my artwork with the pen tool. Once finished, the artwork was cut using the laser printer at Freestyle. I then assembled the artwork together, rearranging the wooden ring layers. During the project process, I was challenged with visualizing which aspects would be cut out, how the end product would look, and often found myself re-doing and adjusting parts of the artwork. Although difficult to conceptualize and visualize the project when working in Illustrator, it allowed me to improve my pen tool skills and turned out much better than expected.

Overall, I feel that I learned a lot from this project, in addition to the 3D video lessons using After Effects. I enjoyed how this project gave us the freedom to create a physical piece from a digital illustration. My favorite part of the artwork is the top-most layer with the three individuals: the boy walking his dog, the skateboarder, and the woman.