Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
My first digital painting! :D
I was bored and my girlfriend was at work, so I decided to make an attempt at painting myself in a Muse-like digital painting. Success?
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Independent Study
1. How to make a watercolor-type design in photoshop
2. I'll be perfecting each aspect of the design and making it look professional. I may also put it on bilboards etc using Photoshop.
3. I will learn to use different techniques in photoshop.
4. http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-effects/fashion-watercolor-artwork.html
5. I'll recreate a part of it in front of them to show the general idea.
2. I'll be perfecting each aspect of the design and making it look professional. I may also put it on bilboards etc using Photoshop.
3. I will learn to use different techniques in photoshop.
4. http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-effects/fashion-watercolor-artwork.html
5. I'll recreate a part of it in front of them to show the general idea.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Kwestions.
1. Do all of the site links work?
Yes
2. Do all of the images load correctly.
Yes
3. Does the page load from a jump drive on a different computer?
Yes
4. What do you like about the page?
It's simple and easy to navigate.
5. What could use improvement?
Yes
2. Do all of the images load correctly.
Yes
3. Does the page load from a jump drive on a different computer?
Yes
4. What do you like about the page?
It's simple and easy to navigate.
5. What could use improvement?
There's a space on the index page that needs fixed.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
What I did today
Designed some of my portfolio site layout. It's still incomplete, but here's a screen cap:
Friday, April 9, 2010
Artist Statement
Here's an example of an Artist Statement:
Kathleen BitettiArtist Statement
Since the early 1990s, my work has involved the creation of conceptually based sociopolitical objects and installations. In my work, I deconstruct the American dream, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and lullabies that are part of our childhood and adult culture. My work also addresses gender roles/gender assignment, the fragility of family dynamics, domestic violence and the underlying threads of violence and danger that underpin American society. These themes are often combined with the metaphors commonly used by those in battering relationships into installations that feature mundane domestic objects, painted pure white and embellished with stenciled text. The color white establishes a dream-like surreal quality, suggests notions of purity and safety, and formally unifies the disparate objects in each installation. The texts provide clues to content and interpretation. My "conceptual sculpture weds minimal form with maximal content". (Shawn Hill, "BayWindows" Nov. 14 96 p27).
The two works, both Untitled 1991, are examples of my earlier work that addressed the overlooked issues of class in American society. Those who are in the lower classes are usually the ones who are "watched like goldfish" and must depend on others for their very survival. The monopoly game pieces are also very important clues to understanding the various facets of our so called classless society.
The piece entitled, Porter Crib 1997, is from a series of 10 beds entitled, "Weary Heads". I began the series in late 1994. These life size beds are beautiful objects, but they are also very dangerous. These works transform an object, that usually provides comfort, into one that has nightmare qualities and is incapable of providing comfort. Stenciled text/language is a prominent element in my "Weary Heads" bed series. The Porter Crib text is taken from a "Christianized" Celtic/Pagan childhood prayer. The prayer is stenciled on tracing paper, thus making it impossible for any infant to lie in the crib with out falling through on to the floor. Children are also at the mercy of others. Presently, I am working on completing two more of the beds in the series. I hope to show all 10 beds in a gallery setting in the future.
Since the early 1990s, my work has involved the creation of conceptually based sociopolitical objects and installations. In my work, I deconstruct the American dream, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and lullabies that are part of our childhood and adult culture. My work also addresses gender roles/gender assignment, the fragility of family dynamics, domestic violence and the underlying threads of violence and danger that underpin American society. These themes are often combined with the metaphors commonly used by those in battering relationships into installations that feature mundane domestic objects, painted pure white and embellished with stenciled text. The color white establishes a dream-like surreal quality, suggests notions of purity and safety, and formally unifies the disparate objects in each installation. The texts provide clues to content and interpretation. My "conceptual sculpture weds minimal form with maximal content". (Shawn Hill, "BayWindows" Nov. 14 96 p27).
The two works, both Untitled 1991, are examples of my earlier work that addressed the overlooked issues of class in American society. Those who are in the lower classes are usually the ones who are "watched like goldfish" and must depend on others for their very survival. The monopoly game pieces are also very important clues to understanding the various facets of our so called classless society.
The piece entitled, Porter Crib 1997, is from a series of 10 beds entitled, "Weary Heads". I began the series in late 1994. These life size beds are beautiful objects, but they are also very dangerous. These works transform an object, that usually provides comfort, into one that has nightmare qualities and is incapable of providing comfort. Stenciled text/language is a prominent element in my "Weary Heads" bed series. The Porter Crib text is taken from a "Christianized" Celtic/Pagan childhood prayer. The prayer is stenciled on tracing paper, thus making it impossible for any infant to lie in the crib with out falling through on to the floor. Children are also at the mercy of others. Presently, I am working on completing two more of the beds in the series. I hope to show all 10 beds in a gallery setting in the future.
Monday, January 25, 2010
What I did today... again.
Worked more on the ground zero image, this time in photoshop. It was getting comments calling it "cartoony" and I agreed, so I decided to make it more realistic. I'm not going to make the image move like originally intended, but I still want to add MarQuan in via greenscreen.
HTML Questions:
Q. What is HTML, and what is it used for?
A. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and is used to code/create websites.
Q. Give 5 examples of html tags, how are they formated.
A.
<*img src="http://www.blogger.com/images/myphoto.jpg" />
<*tr width="640">
<*img alt="Blah blah blah" src="http://www.blogger.com/images/picturesandetc.jpg" border="0" />
<*p>Text here.<*/p>
<*title>titlehere <*/title>
Q. Give an example of how tags are opened and closed.
A. <*title>titletitletitle<*/title>
Q. Describe parent and child elements.
A. Parent elements contain other elements. Child Elements are contained within the parent elements.
Friday, January 22, 2010
What I did today.
Worked on a 3D ground zero for the BPA video.
I intend to put Marquan in via green screen.
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