Layering With New Primary Images

These are the new pieces that I have created using my new primary images. I have just added my new flower images on top of my previous pieces. I really like these pieces and I will continue to trial more idea, such as moving the head/face into different places. Here they are:

 

Primary Images

I have taken some more primary images of flowers to add into my previous pieces of photoshop work, which I have posted in my previous blog posts and I am planning on adding these into the pieces:

I will now add these to previous pieces.

More Photoshop Layering

Here, I have added some more images over the top of the previous piece that I created and I have added more flowers and images of corn, which you can see in the above image.

I am taking some new primary images that I will experiment with.

Layering Up Images

To develop the idea of 'multiple images' I have started to layer some of my primary images together, again showing the deeper meaning of happiness because all of the images that feature within the pieces were taken at the same time and all connote a time of happiness and relaxation. These are the pieces that I have created:

As you can see, I have taken a range of different images that were taken on the same day and have combined them together to create the idea of happiness; however at the same time, I have layered my images together.

Eaedward Muybridge

Eaedward Muybridge is an artist who produces a range of different pieces of art work, under the theme of 'multiple images'. He looks at a range of different animal positions and seems to capture them as they move and change:

I feel that within my project, once I have figured about the deeper meaning to my project, aside to the multiple images stand, that I will want to look at things to see how they change over time, which will also link to multiple images overall. Within Eaedward's work, the 'multiple image' overview is extremely literal; however I feel that within my project, I will focus more on the meaning of something rather than the literal meaning.

Primary Images

I already have quite a few primary images of landscapes that I took during the summer and this links fantastic with this exam project, as the iamges has a meaning behind them and portray many stories from when they were taken.

 

These are the images that I have so far:

 

I will be taking more primary images of landscapes over the next week, which I will upload once I have taken them.

Reasons Behind Artists Work

Wike Wisneiwski

Some people create images to make a statement. Others, like Matt Wisniewski, do it because it looks pretty. “It’s mostly just aesthetic,” explains the 21-year-old computer science student of his spectral photo collages. “Whatever looks nice, really.”
Art for art’s sake is no new conceit. But Wisniewski has created a particularly successful iteration by overlaying portraits with organic patterns—from flowers to jagged peaks to a Rorschach blot. He came to the combination through experimentation. “It just sort of clicked,” he says. “Natural elements tend to be a little simpler and fit together a bit more obviously with the portraits than urban elements.”
The process begins with images from Tumblr and other online portfolios. A few experimental overlays later, Wisniewski lights on something that catches his eye. “I decide that I want to go further on it and then clean that up.”
For his image of a bearded man in a diaphanous red coat, Wisniewski found an overlay photo that “fit well and had a similar shape to his body.” Although many of his portraits eschew color, the red hue of the overlay image appealed to him. “I just thought it looked interesting.”

Whether he works on the face or body is also guided by aesthetic fancy. “Usually if I do something with their body it’s because it’s simple enough that I can just work over it,” he says. “Sometimes I see that covering up their face looks a little nicer than not.”
Wisniewski, who studies at New York’s Rochester Institute of Technology, prefers Photoshop to a paintbrush. Yet despite his technical knowledge—he works as a web-developer in his spare time—he’s self-effacing about his tools. “[Photoshop] is a lot more forgiving,” than traditional media, he says. “I can easily fix mistakes or experiment with an idea and complete erase those changes if I feel they don’t fit.”
That isn’t to say he hasn’t tried drawing, painting and photography. Growing up in Philadelphia, Wisniewski applied his tinkering instincts to whatever was at hand. “I’ve created things for as long as I can remember, really. The collage is just sort of something that happened as a result of that.”
On the cusp of graduating and moving to Brooklyn, Wisniewski hopes to maintain his autotelic creed. “I honestly don’t think of anything I do as a hobby or not,” he says, emphasizing that he wants to keep up his web design alongside making collages. “I’m obviously going to continue doing this as long as I enjoy it. Hopefully that will be a long time.”

I have found the above article from a website, the link is above, and it is extremely interesting to see how he views his art work and his reasons behind it. Although he feels like “Natural elements tend to be a little simpler and fit together a bit more obviously with the portraits than urban elements.”, I feel like this is correct; however my project will have a deeper meaning behind the work that I create, such as the work that I have already produced during my interpretations. Both of the images that feature within the piece both link together to create a story behind it.

Interpretations

I have started to produce some interpretations of Matt Wisneiwski's work using my own primary images of people and landscapes:

To create these pieces, I used Photoshop and I have placed both images into a new document and changed the opacity of the flower image to have it showing through the face to show my interpretation of Matt's work and for the image above that, I have used the same technique; however I have placed a woodland image over the hair, much like Matt does.

Both of the images that I have overlapped over the face and the hair symbolise a happy, relaxed time in my life as they were taken in the summer when I was filming my music video and I was totally relaxed and happy due to the warm, relaxed weather. So I have used both of my landscape images for a reason, as they represent a time in my life.

Initial Ideas

I have started my initial research into this project and as a topic, I have chosen multiple images; however will need to come up with a theme behind this, such as layering up images over the top of faces to create a deeper meaning behind the piece and also creating a link between the layered image and the background image.

I have found some artists already during my research including, Christoffer Rolander and also Matt Wisneiwski who both use the idea of 'multiple images' to create their pieces of work. Rolander uses the topic more explicitly, as it is clear that he has layered up images using photoshop; however Wisneiwski combines different features within a portrait, such as trees. Both artistes use portraits/faces within their work, which is an occuring theme between these two.

This is what I have found so far:

  

I love the piece above with the merry-go-round and would like to produce some similar work to this during my project.

I also conducted some research into 'Using Found Objects', which is another topic on the exam paper; however I much prefer the influencing work within the topic of 'multiple images'.