Schwab+K-+Texture



Ten Changes: 1. I layered the statue and sculpted head into the background. 2. Everything is given a blue overtone to bring sad and fearful feelings through the coloring. 3. The statue and head are both faded with the statue being more faded to appear almost ghost like. 4. I darkened the shadows on the head to create a more gloomy appearance. 5. The head is placed to cover the blurred space of the background photo. 6. The edges of the head's profile are blurred into the background. 7. The woman is placed to demonstrate the rule of thirds and is placed on the 'horizon line' which is just part of a birdcage. 8. The head is scrunched up shorter to make the birdcage pole stick up his nose. 9. The highlights in the woman are dimmed slightly to make her appear more faded. 10. The man's highlights are brightened to make him seem shiner and sweatier.

Artist Statement:

This piece is about a dead spouse that went to heaven and a live spouse that is slowly turning to mud and is essentially not traveling with her. I composed this piece to make it look as if the ghostly spirit of the wife is escaping the birdcage behind her and saying goodbye to her nasty husband by sticking the cage’s rod up his nostril and presumably into his brain. The man is sweaty and muddy looking because he knows he was bad to his wife and now that she’s dead he can’t make up for it. I tried to use the rod as a faux horizon line and set the wife in the top left corner and the husband in the bottom right corner to create a sort of cross between the rule of thirds and utilizing a horizon line. The man and woman are both slightly transparent with the woman being more so to represent her being dead and the man is on his way to dying which is why he is slightly less transparent. I didn’t have that many photos to work with because I didn’t fully understand what we would be doing with them, so if i were to do this project over I would probably use a different background photo. Overall, I’m pretty pleased with my overall concept and composition and if anything I need to work on my craftsmanship to make cleaner and neater looking photos.