Review: Guest Artist- Diane Willow

April 9th 2008

In class we had a guest artist come and talk to us about her different works. It was very nice to have an artist come to us instead of viewing a video and just letting them tell us what they think we would want to know. We got to ask her any question that we wanted so that nice and refreshing.
I really liked her art when she was working with science, it was very interesting to see how she made things move when people would enter her exhibits. I think it would be so neat to enter a room and have my presence make leaves on the ceiling move around. I liked her work over all.

TODAYS WORK

Today I worked on a family photograph from a photo shoot I did earlier this weekend. This family has two very young boys so getting them to look at the camera with a ton of other stuff going on is definitely a challenge. What I did here was take the photograph of the family sitting on another part of the beach and then copy them into a more appealing portion when in photoshop. I also was not as happy with the older boys face so I took a different photograph of his face and put it into the newly formed one. Wow! I think it was harder to describe what I just did,  then to actually do it. I then added a fun border with different brushes and textures. TAKE A LOOK!

PROJECT 2

My second accordion:

In this project I made a birthday card for my good friend and incorporated photographs that she had previously taken and ones that I had taken. It was a difficult one because I am not used to using other peoples photos as well as, learning to work with only a certain number and size. 

REVIEW: Richard Monrach

I really thought this artist was pretty cool. I loved the way he used light to create an entire image of one would see with the naked eye. He transformed images from a plan ol' picture to a powerful statement that was hard to keep your eyes off of.  I believe that he found a "niche" and went with it so that he could change the world views with one photograph at a time. Most people that have this niche I find to be boring  and simply "taking a snap shot" of the terrible things of this world, but Richard finds his way to bring the important scary thoughts to real life so that people can no longer just dream about them. 

REVIEW: Sally Mann

This isn't the first time I have seen this film on Sally Mann and this isn't the first time that I have fallen in love with her work. I love the images that she took while her kids were growing up. I think that she was able to catch this moment in time in which most mothers wish they could keep for forever, when their babies were still babies. She has a gift that she has given herself that not only lasts a life time, but a gift that is something that is so true and real, unlike what a posed portrait studio would give most. I think that she was just photographing her kids being kids and that anybody that would judge an artist's work of something so natural and beautiful is absolutely ridiculous! 

REVIEW: COLLIER SCHORR

I believe that this artist had many interesting points when she was speaking and showing off her work of the German boys. It was pretty cool how they would all be playing American army heros and they would just pose for her. I believe that that is every photographers dream, to have any person dress up in interesting clothes or outfits and sit there patiently for a photographer. I liked how she wasn't afraid to also have the boys be put into an awkward situation that would make for the photographs to turn out even more interesting than the ones before. Pretty good.

JAKE

Today's class project. I added his name for a little twist, but I'm still not sure if I'm a fan yet or not.