Craft
This is my second draft of my digital bike paintings and my final draft of the random brushes paintings. They were both made by using Photoshop and the brush tool (brushes). For the top digital bike paintings, I made this by using my previous brushes I created for my first draft. The necessary steps were simple since I already made one draft and heard others opinions on them. Since my brushes were preset already, I made another collage with all the brushes using the brush tool. For the bottom random brushes 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 two paintings of different brushes combined together, I titled each one. The bottom left painting is called the Singin’ Birds (has birds in the background and also in the middle with music notes) and the bottom right painting is called the Shoot Out (looks like the person is trying to shoot the other). Once I was finished with all four paintings, my signature stamp was added to each.
Composition
For the bike paintings, I arranged things this way because I used order of layers, two hues, and scale. When creating my new document, I made sure it was a 300dpi RGB document. Once I had this document, I created ten layers. On each layer I put one of my bike brushes I recently created. Each layer had one bike brush. I used two hues, blue and green, but used different values of them for each stamp. I also used scale to make some of the brushes on one page smaller while others were bigger. When making each layer, I turned off every layer except the one I was working on. Once I had all ten layers created, I turned on and off layers to see what stood out the most. For the bike painting on the left, I am controlling the viewers’ eye by making the pedals and wheels stand out. I did this by using the darkest value of green and blue which was black, the lowest value of green and blue which was white, and also by scale and layer order. I made sure the pedals were large in scale and closest to the viewer. Although the wheels are small in scale, they are also close to the viewer and stand out because of their value. The viewers’ eye is drawn to either one of these. For the bike painting on the right, I am controlling the viewers’ eye by drawing their attention to the many wheels and white bikes. The wheels are in the darkest value and are large in scale while the bikes are small in scale and are in the lowest value. For the random brushes paintings, I arranged things basically the same way as the bikes. I had twenty layers with a different brush on each. I used a pink and purple hue with different values for each stamp. Once all twenty layers were created I turned on and off layers to see which stood out the most. I made two layers in each that would stand out the most which is how I am controlling the viewers’ eye. In the Singin’ Birds, the birds (lowest value, scale, and closest to the viewer), music notes (repetition, darker value), and black spots (darkest value) stand out. The viewers’ eye is drawn to either one of these. In Shoot Out, the people (darkest value, scale, closest to viewer) and the leaves (lowest value) stand out.
Concept
These are digital paintings. For the bike paintings, they don’t really mean anything because they are just collages of bikes and bike parts. For the random brush paintings, I think that their meaning is in their titles. Their titles are what I believe the brushes and layers together mean. For both sets of paintings, 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.
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