Media Arts: MoMA Principles Of Design

The Gardener - painting- 2001- John Currin [Link to artwork on MoMA] This painting titled "The Gardener" by John Currin has several examples of principles of design included within it. The one I wish to bring attention to however is the principle of unity. The two people featured in the painting are within close proximity and as such we naturally group them together. However,...

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Media Arts: Annie Leibovitz

This photographs is just one among million that Annie Leibovitz can proudly claim to have had the  honor of taking.  This photograph features Tiny Fey, it was taken January 2009 for Vanity Fair magazine. It gives a "party animal" or "wild girl" feeling to it and displays Tina in different poses, and interesting concept for the Leibovitz to experiment with. What...

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Media Arts Extra: Pink Trees and Blue Macaw

Just an extra coloring warm-up that I have completed. I liked multiple different styles of the image and have posted them all below. The original lined art for this piece can be found here Here is the basic Macaw image that I finished. I added all the flat colors to the image, although for the bird wings I had used the gradient tool to make the colors fade into one another. Every...

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Media Arts: Giant Food

So here today we have the class project we our class was working on earlier last week; but apparently couldn't post because of computer complications. I, myself was sick during the days we worked on this assignment so I apologize for any quality loss or very evident mistakes I made. Regardless please enjoy this picture I've titled Giant Food. It was a very basic Photoshop project that...

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Media Arts: Coloring Pages

 Hello again! This is what our class ASM3O has been working on: coloring in Photoshop. This was basically for those not used to Photoshop to get used to coloring with it; but I decided to go off on the web and find a random coloring page for practice for future assignments. Above, is a picture of the coloring page I spent time both coloring and shading and adding a simple blue...

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Day 2: Media arts

Here is a picture of my sleeping cat that I took using my cell phone. I thought that this photo showed an interesting style of contrast, with the white sheets that my black cat Luna is sleeping on. I also thought it was interesting because their is bright lighting towards the bottom of the photograph whereas the closer to the top you get the darker shades of grey it is. I felt it was a unique...

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Day 3, 4, 5: Media arts

Here we have Snake Women. She was made using (as her name suggests) snakes, car tires and wheels, feathers, and different textures. The idea of this assignment was to build a character using things not normal for those body parts (i.e almonds instead of eyes.) Basically how I made her was I used different textures and a lot and lot of layers. For the wheels, and eyebrows I applied layer effects...

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Day 1: Media arts

Hello, my name is Nicala Henderson. What interests me in multimedia art is that it is such a wide range of works. It can be anything from drafts to portraits to interactive posters on the web! With such variety what's not to like? It's also a growing art industry that has many opportunities provided one knows what they are doing. I honestly don't know what to expect this semester but I am looking...

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Kmart Commercial

This is one of my favourite commercials by Kmart. My other favourite is the "I Ship my pants" on...

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