Friday, August 27, 2010

photo gram tree

Alright my first idea for a project. At first I was thinking about making another lamp. But I want to do something different.


So I had the idea of collecting various leaves, make a photo gram of them, cut them out, paint them, glue pain tissue paper on them with watered down elmer's glue to give it some texture, put them together so that it looks like a tree with some black yarn as the trunk and branches, press it between two peaces of glass, and frame it.


The colors I was thinking about for the leaves were light and dark green, light blue, red, yellow, some purple, orange, with black yarn. I might have to photo gram the yarn, in which case the color wouldn't matter.


I was also thinking of cutting out images of birds, flowers, and other various things and hiding them through out the tree, so you see something new every time.


I want the glass to be see through so the tree looks like its suspended in the air, but I dont know how that will work or how to get it to stay in the frame. Just a few problems, but I could turn this into a huge project and work on it all this semester.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

just getting started

This semester at college i am taking a studio class where we are required to create a blog to use as a journal.


So in my last photography class I made a photography book of black and white pictures developed in the dark room. It is called Beautiful Benevolence


http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1313730


I recently got a job at Life Touch Studios and i need to work on my portraits soo i was thinking of making another book of only portraits of friends i know in nice dresses down town, at the beach, and other random places.