Gestural Abstraction

Website

http://studentweb.stcloudstate.edu/armo1202/

What Am I Doing?

Graffiti

Toxic

At the beginning of this project I intended to model my collage after the work of British artist Duncan Mackay; as my collage progressed I strayed from his style a little bit. Duncan Mackay creates simple collages, focusing on techniques of image taking/making, material, and politics. Although my piece is a bit more barren than his are, I think it lends to my theme.

I tried to use many different types of images in my piece. I scanned many images, including: the cigarettes, lighter, "clouds"(moldable plastic beads), "smoke"(torn cotton), and "Water"(fabric). I also chose to use both personal photographs and images found online.

I tried to avoid too much editing in this piece because I wanted the drastic images to really speak for themselves. I believe the only things I did were play with opacity a little bit and apply a ripple filter to my "oil spill."

My goal in this piece was to represent the harmful things we use in our everyday lives and some of the repercussions they can have.

If I had more time to work on this project I probably would have a adjusted some of the scaling, as it seems a bit off. I also would have worked harder to make the images on the horizon appear to be buildings, because I don't think thats how they're reading.

Overall I'm pretty happy with how "Toxic" turned out.

Shape Analysis

Duncan Mackay

Hold Your Horses

I began with 3 images found on the internet. I then put each of these images into photoshop and proceeded to remove the backgrounds with various tools. After that I resized each image accordingly and began to play with different filters and masks. My final product is much darker than I originally intended it to be, but I think it adds to the piece.

The End of Art (Scanogram)

The All Seeing Fish