allen-place

Portrait of a Place Research

Lighting to use to capture moods:

Moods to Capture → Happy, Sad, Ecstatic, Excited, Hopeful, Upset, Adventurous, Energetic, Scared, Lonely, Busy, Flustered, etc.

Bright → Bright lights can capture the more happy and exciting moods rather than the sad and lonely moods. Bright lights help us express color and emotions that are more exciting that others. When people see bright colors they think vibrant and happy, they take in the photo as its trying to express happy emotions and feelings rather than sad ones.

Medium → Medium brightness in lighting helps us express the moods that we are unsure of or questioning. This is because it not one hundred percent happy and exciting but at the same time it’s not one hundred percent sad and hopeless.

Dark → Dark lighting helps us express the more sad and more dark emotions that we can’t quite express in color. Like when you try to express you are upset or sad it’s hard to do when you are using color. This is why people typically use black and white to express sad emotions and feelings in photographs.

Vocab:

Substrates → A substrate is the surface you decide to print/transfer your image onto. This surface can vary form a blanket or piece of clothing to a piece of metal or glass.

Digital Substrate → Digital substrates are substrates that you are able to fit into a printer so that you are able to print it yourself through the printer. These can be pieces of paper, fabric, etc.

Grounds → Grounds are substances that seal the surfaces you decide to use. You apply the grounds prior to printing because the ground helps the ink attach itself to the substance you are printing on and allows your piece to be successful. You have to be careful when you use grounds because it is possible for it to do some damage to your printer if it is not properly used.

Image Transfer → Image transfers are important to be able to transfer your image onto something such as a piece of wood. There are many different techniques such as polaroid transfer, acrylic gel, and inkjet wet transfers. When you do this you need to make sure to flip the image on photoshop because when you transfer it, if it is not flipped it will transfer backwards onto the new surface.

Altered Art → Altered are is when there is a work of art that is used as a starting point and overtime with lots and lots of changes it becomes a new piece or also known as an altered piece.

Digital Printing Process → The digital printing process means that the creator of the artwork did more than just shoot a photo, it means they did some editing in photoshop then printing it out. This means that the author had have had a final product such as an image transferred onto a piece of wood or glass but then didn't stop there, they added some paint or ink or some other, new detail to the piece.

Transfer information;

Inkaid → Rub all over paper try to use foam brush. Can leave outside lanke so boarder in created. Use lots of layers of the ink especially if you are printing onto dark paper. Make sure to take project down along with a base paper under project so that you don’t get anything on your table or other workspace. Gel → Layer the gel all over the image. When dry saturate the surface with water. The paper will become pulpy, pull the paper off. Let the image dry and once it is dry you can paint on the bal side and when you flip the image there will be color incorporated into the image.

Transfer to wood → Get a shape of wood if you want. Print on plain piece of paper and print to size of wood. Lightly damped paper towel and get dust off wood. Use foam brush to rub gel all over the wood where you want your picture to be. (can paint some on picture to help transfer). Make sure to have enough or the transfer won’t work. Cover image in gel. TRY NOT TO USE WHITE IF TRANSFERING TO WOOD. Flip image onto wood and rub down when you have it where you want it. Use a craft stick or something to get the bubbles/wrinkles out. Add more medium if you are having troubles getting corners to stick. Let dry overnight when you are satisfied with replacement. Or all day if you do early. WHen dry, tear off paper bits you can get off. Get a rag or sponge to get paper wet and really saturate until paper comes off. Do for two or three times let dry in between. When done getting paper off you can distress edges of wood.

Purell → Add few pumps or purell and rub all over paper. Fill both sides with the purell. Tape the paper down to prevent from sliding. Take transparency and press it down firmly. Rub back of transparency until the ink is transferred. Make sure there are no light areas in the print. When done carefully pull up transparency.

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[] Artist → Sofia Verzbolovskis Title → Fire on the Avenue de La Bourdonnais

This is one of Sofia Verzbolovskis photographs. This image is of city space. The mood evoked by the artist is busy. Also another mood I get from looking at this picture is calming. This artist has a lot of work with a lot of different emotions and moods. This image shows her type of work because there are multiple modes within one piece. One compositional technique is a leading lines within the buildings. Also she has a good job of role of thirds and a level horizon. Another compositional technique is focal point and point of view. Both are very interesting. [|__http://www.pictorymag.com/showcases/portrait-place-paris/__]

Artist → Sofia Verzbolovskis Title → Advice

This is another photograph taken by Sofia Verzbolovskis. This piece demonstrates her work as well as the other piece since there is a person and a building in this piece. Some moods/emotions I got when I looked at this piece were relaxation, and enjoyment. I feel the black and white really helps emphasize the shadows in the piece. My favorite part of this piece is the way in which she used the leading lines. The lines on the buildings really make your eyes go throughout the entire piece. Also the focal point to me is the man on the bike but some may say its the buildings which is an interesting component she thought about in the making of this piece. This is a very interesting, simple yet busy pieces.

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Artist → Didier Massard Title → La Source (The Source)

This is one of Didier Massard photographs. This image is of natural space. The movie both by the artist is very exciting almost. Also another mood I get from this image is adventurous. This artist does a lot of work with natural space which is why this image is a good example of his work. One compositional technique is framing because I feel like the rocks in the cave in general really frames the opening and the water. Another compositional technique is filling the frame, he really used to space very nicely. One thing I really like about this image is all of the texture within the rocks.

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I believe this printmaking technique will help me demonstrate my concept that I'm trying to portray because I really have two different concepts. One of them is nature, and the other humanity. Both are very natural things which is the main thing I’m trying to capture. I decided that the water will help me really capture the natural look. I believe I want later lighting to capture more exciting and happy mood because life's a good thing. The type of place I will astray will most likely be a landscape to really capture the natural look. My final piece we printed onto a piece of wood and I’m indecisive how large I want it at point in time.