Week 11: Paintings and Drawings

Craft

The image on the left is of two tea pot drawings. The image on the right is of five paintings. I made both of these images using Photoshop. The necessary steps in creating these images were very different. The tea pot drawings were much easier to create and had fewer steps to follow. I made this by first using only the pen or brush tool. I made the tea pot on the right first, using the brush tool. As for the tea pot on the left, I changed the type of brush to the Smoke Brushes. Starting off with black I changed the colors to red and yellow using the paint bucket tool.

For the five paintings, the necessary steps were first by using the brush tool as well. When picking new brushes, I clicked the Brush Preset Picker down drop which gave me various brushes to choose from. Once I chose a brush type, I clicked Append which combined all of the brushes. After creating five paintings of different brushes combined together, I titled each one. Starting at the top left, the paintings titles are The Love for Crazy Music (different actions of people with music notes and hearts behind them), Army of the Birds (looks like the birds on the bottom are stern soldiers and are attacking the other birds who are hiding behind the flower fences), Mama Leaf (large leaf with little baby leaves surrounding it), Subliminal Messages (looks like the bubbles are covering hidden words), and Paint Over My Heart (the paint splatters are covering the mini hearts).

                The similarities between the paintings and drawings were that the brush tool was used. The difference between them is that the paintings consisted of using only different brush stamps while the tea pots used only the Smoke Brushes and the other tea pot was made by using the pen.

Composition

For the tea pot on the left I arranged things this way by using layer order. I used three different layers which were all arranged to look like the tea pot I was giving to create. The first layer had the tea pot made with the smoke brush in black. The second layer was made with the smoke brush in red and the third layer was made with the smoke brush in yellow. I arranged things in this order because the black stood out the most on top. It also goes from darkest to lightest, black to yellow. I am controlling the viewers’ eye by drawing their attention to the darkest tea pot which is the black one on top or in front. The viewer notices the red and yellow but the black stands out the most. I think the viewers’ eye is also drawn to the very bottom of all three pots because it has the ends of the smoke brushes which are very sharp and pointy. For the tea pot on the right, I arranged things this way by trying to use only vertical lines. I used larger lines for bigger parts on the pot and smaller lines for the lid and bottom of the tea pot. I am controlling the viewers’ eye by making many lines which shows more definition. It’s basically a repetition of vertical lines. Their attention is drawn to the many lines.

For the paintings I used a mixture of pink and purple hues, changing the value in each. For the painting, The Love for Crazy Music, I arranged things this way by also using layer order. The people, being the most important were placed closest to the viewer. The hearts were farther away because they were less significant. I arranged the people this way because I wanted to include different people doing different actions but having them all be noticed. None of them are overlapping or are hidden. I am controlling the viewers’ eye by having the people in a higher value of purple. This makes them stand out on the lighter pink background. The Army of Birds was arranged this way with layer order. The birds in front showed more dominance because they were all together. I added the layer with the flowers because it seemed as if it were a fence, covering the birds behind it. I am controlling the viewers’ eye by drawing their attention to the higher value of pink birds that are all together and also to the flowers that are all stuck together. Mama Leaf was arranged this way because I wanted to use different scales of this one leaf. They are all of the same hue and value but their scale is different. I made one large one to show dominance and a lot of smaller ones to show they are surrounding this large one. I am controlling the viewers’ eye by drawing their attention to the one largest leaf. It overpowers the smaller ones. Subliminal Messages was arranged this way by using layer order and having the bubble layer on top because it seemed to cover the other layer in a way that was making the layer underneath blurry. Although there are not words or letters underneath, when first looking at this it seems as if they are actually words hidden. I am controlling the viewers’ eye by drawing their attention to the lower value of purple behind the higher value. This stands out. The viewers’ attention is also directed towards the few white patches. Paint Over My Heart was arranged this way because the paint splatters have a higher value of pink which completely covers the heart background. This is also how I am controlling the viewers’ eye. Their eyes are drawn towards the dark pink splatters. They are bright and in front which shows their dominance.

                The similarities between the painting and drawings are that layer order was used and they used different hues. The difference is that the drawings were only arranged to look like a tea pot while the paintings consisted of different arrangements of brushes and layers which allowed for many different arrangements.

Concept

                For the tea pots, these are simply two different paintings of the tea pot that I was looking at. It doesn’t have meaning because it is just a tea pot. I am trying to say that by using any type of brush, you can create, for example, a tea pot. For the five drawings, they are just different brushes combined together. I think that their meaning is in their titles. Their titles are what I believe the brushes and layers together mean. I am trying to say that just by turning on or off a layer and having a wide selection of different layers; you can create a variety of combinations. Not one painting is the same because there were so many different layers that had different brush stamps on them.

                The similarity between the paintings and drawings is that I am trying to say that by using the brush tool, many different things can be created. The difference is that the tea pots don’t really have meaning while the paintings do.