New Concentration

Concentration: In-Progress

            “Society Demands Perfection, But We Demand Acceptance Of Our Own Imperfect Beauty." The theme for my concentration is women in society, and the battle between self-acceptance and the constant degradation of society towards women. For this series, I used a variety of medias including photography, Photoshop, and pencil. I chose this series theme because I have been raised my entire life to believe in myself, to be confident no matter what, and not to let society bring me down. I’m very passionate on the issue of the media, the workplace, and society in general constantly teaching girls that they are not good enough, or that men are in any way better than them. Through this series, I try to bring to a head the idea that this simply isn’t true. No matter what we might be told, we don’t need the reinforcement of magazines, celebrities, or what-have-you to reinforce our own self-worth.This series explores the idea of a girl coming into her own against the role society places her in. The main idea behind my inspiration is inner beauty.

Weekly Challenge 8: Opposites

This WC was doing our Artistic Opposites. According to Bert, my opposites are photographing boys, animals, cars, and/or taking super photo-pure pictures. Well...this little montage thing has three of those! This is my little brother and my dog. The only edits to the pictures are adjustments to the color (black and white) and little adjustments to contrast/etc.

Silk Painting

       

              On my silk painting, I give myself a four on the AP scoring rubric. I feel that my piece does show 5D, successful engagement with experimentation and/or risk-taking. I feel that my piece also shows the following qualities of a four on the rubric: 4B, some clear decision-making and intention; 4C, a demonstration of some imaginative ideas and purposeful manipulation of the elements and principles of design in the work’s composition; 4E, evocative and engaging qualities though some lack of confidence or lack of engaging qualities with confidence is demonstrated in the work.

Weekly Challenge 6: Adobe Illustrator

This week's challenge was to create a typography piece in Adobe Illustrator. I did the smoke background with a photoshop brush, but other than that the text is 100% Illustrator. I chose the word "Serendipity". I'm still very new to this program, so the turnout was a little rough but here it is:

Weekly Challenge 7: Pearl Street Field Trip

Our weekly challenge this week was posting our favorite picture from our field trip on Monday to Pearl Street! Here is mine, which was taken at a candy shop which I forgot the name of. It turned out to be a kinda cool gradient picture unintentionally!

Weekly Challenge 5: Bad Fashion

For this weekly challenge, my theme was depicting my favorite "bad fashion" trend. I chose fedoras, because they are pretty much the definition of an overused item that used to be considered haute couture. Anyways, this is my friend modeling what used to be a black fedora...until I turned it magenta, because that's what Photoshop is for!