Working Towards the Final Piece 14th October
Once again Tuesday's Visual Communication started with the
group catching up on what they had done over the last week. This was a chance
for all of us to explain how our ideas had changed over the weekend. Having the
opportunity to talk through my ideas with the group meant I could get a fresh
view on my concept. I could also give other people feedback on their work and
ideas. When it was my turn to talk I explained how over the weekend I did some
research on the artist Andy Warhol, and how that tied into the Pop Art example
I did last Thursday. This was one of the many styles I tried before I came to
the final decision of a pastiche of Da Vinci's 'The Last Supper'. I wanted to
have The Last Supper as the main setting, but instead of all men, I would have
women in the roles of traditionally male dominated jobs. I wanted to question
the role of women and how in the past there were very few opportunities for
them.
With the talk over, we were then sent off to start our final
piece, or pieces for the end of the week. This was a hard task as I had to
search for different images of women working in male dominated roles. I had
difficulty thinking of thirteen different recognisable jobs for my image so I
wrote a questionnaire asking people to write down different jobs where women weren’t
well represented. The results were amazing. One career mentioned that surprised
me was that of graphic designer. With all that information at hand, I got back
to the task. It was much easier with the ideas from other people. I went get
back to the search engine to look for images.
I could now get back to my final piece. I started with a
photo of the original Last Supper and opened it in Photoshop. I then started
reading down the list from my questionnaire for some ideas. After a bit of
searching I soon had several images ready to be layered on top of the original
painting. This is where I had to get to grips with layering multiple photos and
blending each one into the photo, so that it looked like it was part of the
original painting. The first thing I had to deal with was deleting the
background from photos of the women I added. This was a difficult and time
consuming task as I had to go around each one individually and make sure there
wasn’t any background colour showing through.
Before I knew it the class was over, but with the progress
I‘ve made today I’m sure I'll be able to finish this work tomorrow.
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