WeEk 5

Hi. This week was all about collage, which I discovered actually comes from the French word coller; meaning, to paste or glue. Anyway, after being shown how to use the different tools in Photoshop, I got stuck straight into making a collage of my very own. I started out with theses three images from Google Image:










Then, decided to edit and overlap, to come up with this pretty picture:
I had fun creating this piece, and I am very happy with the end result (for the time-frame it was completed in). I like that the background is soft, and that Blythe (Alice) is much brighter and bolder. I think it works well =)
Bi Bi xx
PS. Handed in assessment one and was able to get-a-hold of a silver tea-pot.

WeEk 4

Hello. This week we took a look at photography & using Photoshop - which is always fun. I took some shots of a fake plant & decided to practice & play with the light, contrast & brightness of the artwork. This is the sort of bright and playful style I am going for in my final piece.
We also looked at the artist Gregory Crewdson, whose work I found very interesting. I like the way he presents his artwork to be eerie & almost fake, like a film set with stiff, manikin-like characters. His works remind me of the film, House of Wax. Again, his work relates to my final piece, as I'm wanting the young woman in my film to be stiff & doll-like.
http://artblart.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/photographer-gregory-crewdson-to-present-artists-talk-sponsored-by-the-photography-society-of-the-nelson-atkins-museum-of-art-kansas-city/

Also this week, I found an artist who had combined the Blythe doll that I am using with the Alice in Wonderland style that I am going for. She goes by the name, Blonde Blythe. This is her work.... http://blondeblythe.tripod.com/id39.html


P.S - I'm still waiting for my Blythe doll to arrive and I'm also searching for a really cool tea-party set. Till next blog. XxX

WeEk ThReE: PaRt TwO

Yay! She's mine! All mine! I finally scored myself an awesome Blythe doll online. She's sooo cute and yet, still fabulously creepy. I can't wait till she arrives on my door-step =] And as usual, the bidding online was very intense - I only beat my competitor by a couple of cents - a real adrenaline rush, lol. Well this is her (left), all pretty & perfect.

After watching the newly released Alice in Wonderland, I'm feeling very inspired by Burton's new dark-take on the story. I'm really into the black n' white striped leggings and tea-parties. And you know what's funny? I heard that this story was originally based on a girl who took drugs and began seeing all these weird things. Well, It does kinda fit lol.

http://browngrrrl.wordpress.com/2009/05/

Before I go, I'd like to introduce to you all, my friend Sarah (left). Sarah will hopefully be playing the part of the young woman in my film.

Be back next week :]

WeEk ThReE !

Boy have I got lots to talk about! Today in class, we looked at phone-art and even attempted to create our own works. I tried making a spiral-text-poem, titled Stolen & Still. But when it came to sending it to my phone, things didn't really work out =[ I did, however, find a really cool phone video series, Roaming Sweets on the Portable Worlds site. The videos are titled, Sweet Seat, Sweet Suite, & Walled Garden by Anita Bacic & Natalie Woodlock. These pieces relate really well with the style of work that I'm wanting to produce, as the artists have used dolls & created a very playful world =] It is so cute! Check it out!
http://portableworlds.anat.org.au/artists/anita-bacic-natalie-woodlock.php

Roaming Sweets is a series of three stop-motion animations created on a mobile phone to be viewed on a mobile phone, delivered as episodes in the life of Luli the doll. Roaming Sweets is a sweet-meet between new digital technologies and the cult of the handmade. Crochet, icing, sweets, cake and cardboard are materials used in each animation. Flowers come alive when Luli walks past and her furniture dances when she’s not looking. The animations capture an enchanting, miniature child-like world full of magic and marvel made ready for connections in a new mini high-tech world.

As for my final piece, I've been doing a lot of research on Blythe dolls, to use in my movie. Blythe was created in the 70's, but didn't really take-off, as parents found her to creepy looking for their kids to play with. But she's back, more popular than ever! Very cute & creepy! I'm currently hunting down a Blythe doll on eBay. Wish me luck.

http://www.thisisblythe.com/
I want my work to convey that girls and young women today are programmed from a young age to be pretty & perfect - nothing less! I am going to achieve this by capturing a young woman copying everything her perfect, little Blythe doll does. The woman will also look doll-like, & it will be set in a very Alice-in-Wonderland-like tea-party. This is going to be a snap-shot film. One that I am very excited about! XxX

WEek TwO

And it's straight into week 2 (even on a public holiday).
This week we are looking at TEXT and artists such as, Barbara Kruger. We also started our very first lesson on using the Adobe Illustrator - manipulating text etc.
I have now begun to think about what it is that I would like to create for my art-works. What is my art about? What programs will I use? How will I present it?
At first I was thinking of something with fashion - something dark - almost death-like. From there my thoughts have transitioned (thanks to Google Image) into wanting to do something using DOLLS (cute & creepy). Still a dark-fashioned-like theme, looking into concepts of young women not being real, but plastic in their thoughts of their own image ????? I think I'll be focusing on video ?

WeEk OnE !

Hi all, my name is Alysha & this is officially my very first post for the subject, intro to digital art. This week we checked out the website, RhiZoMe.




http://www.rhizome.org/





Not only is there a large number of contemporary visuals to look at, but a huge amount of information on up-comming events & exhibitions along with written works and articles on the art pieces. The class was also shown a cool little vocab of art-terms from conceptual to abstract, and animation to postmodern. This is certainly something I'll be referring back to.
The artwork (right), Twin Cities (2009), is by Nathaniel Stern & Jessica Meuninck-Ganger. And it to, was found on the Rhizome site.
I have chosen to dissplay this particular piece, because I find the soft, feminine colours mixed with dark shades (very mysterious), a good way of presenting to you all, what I feel and who I am.
Therefore, this semester I wish to achieve, along with a HD lol, nothing more than to make very bold but beautiful statements within my work.