C&D Artist Research

Research of photography:

My research direction was in nature poster and scenery photography, many natural work make me impressed, some of the special black and white photographs, and it is the way I need to deep research and explore, because I need to edit my photos upload to Photoshop, it is a process of making posters are particularly important, so I need to draw lessons from the ideas of many photographers, to observe how they shot in black and white photos and combining with the my idea to make a series of work.

In addition, the poster with the color contrast, background picture of grey. Photo not only need to be photographed but also need to be processes using software.

Controlled Burn and Dodge #1 – Special Edition Photograph

Bob Kolbrener

           Vaughn Hutchins

TREES, VALLEY FOG, DUSK, YOSEMITE VALLEY, CA

John Sexton.

Research of  natural poster:

This is a process I took away from the camera, using digital art (Photoshop). My first series was focus on detail layout, cutting, reassembling, font recognition, color screening, etc. When I got some feedback after I felt that too complex, and then I search on Pinterest, I found a lot of designers for natural poster idea is advanced. Simple, this is how I feel after seeing their work. It doesn’t mean simple to make or less elemental………they are made in ways that are more interesting and easier to understand. Then I painted many fonts on the paper and combined with simple landscape as a background, I think big fonts more lofty and can give people fresh and long-standing  feel, with a bit of  blur color contrast, makes the gray background with simple and dreamy feeling.

           Simon Granath

 

 

         Brin Farley

               John W. Hanawalt

                         Art by ASolo

 Research PDF

 Images and pinterest references:

https://society6.com/product/big-letter-watercolor-letter_notebook?sku=s6-7090856p59a202v706

https://www.pinterest.nz/yihang1725/framing-the-scape/

Ansel Adams, Photographer

http://shop.anseladams.com/category_s/60.htm

http://shop.anseladams.com/category_s/113.htm

http://shop.anseladams.com/Trees_Valley_Fog_Dusk_Yosemite_Valley_p/17150482.htm

https://society6.com/product/ampersand-ctd_print

 

 

 

CD. Final exhibition

In fact, at the end of the improve and check phase, we focused on the final idea in order to change the layout of the exhibition, make adjustments to the angle and double check the firmness of the works hanging. Kristy gave us a lot of feedback as well as suggestions and we discussed different way, we made a major change in the layout, first we picked off some works because the fishing lines and the hooks were not strong and we need to re-measure the fishing line. Our idea is to keep all the works on the roof, changing the initial top-down arrangement. And we changed the position of Peggy works, moved to the right. When we re-layout according to the idea and install them, the effect is surprising, compared to the previous layout of the work, we clever use of more places, so that in terms of angle to give the audience more choices to watch our work , In terms of the height of the work, we reduce the overall it, reducing the head so that the neck may cause pain. We are satisfied with the final decision and the effort we pay is rewarding and the reward is pretty good … personally, I enjoy the process of making the work.

 

 

Highlights: We cant borrow ladder again because the photographic equipment room is closed on Friday. Luckily we were looking for a large wooden box, and I thought it was safe and the fact that I was standing on it was no problem.

 

CD. Group project

Preface: I'm very excited! Work with paper project team.

@Emily

@Peggy

Individual part:

Personal design, created lines and used the Steel scalpel handle to crop leaves.

 

Crop finished, I went to the paint store to buy green magic color.

 

Final work:

 

I am very random with a pen on the paper, tap the pen to swallow the pigment, in order to create a green natural atmosphere. I am enjoying this process because green is my favorite color and I feel comfortable when I do these things.

 

Research:

This is the resource I found in pinterest, they are interesting and gave me a lot of ideas about how to crop and organize them. I finally chose “leaves” as my personal subject in the group.

Group work:

 

We decided to choose to cut the different patterns on the cardboard and we chose different patterns to create and cut, and then prepared some tools including fishing lines, hooks, etc. (In fact, after the work we decided to use tape attached to the roof, so that we can fix our work to prevent them from falling) and frame, we draw “theme” and it in the frame.

We think for a long time … on how to install, decorate and hang our work, this is the most difficult part, because we have to take care of the audience, visual effects, different angles can bring different feelings. Then we decided to put all the works side by side hang on the roof and in order to create a visual effect, we put the works, from top to bottom. My work is larger in size, put in the end, Emily works in front, then Peggy works. Allocate some tasks, we were very understanding and mutual helped each other. Surprisingly, our work efficiency, work quality is also greatly improved. I am responsible for roof suspension operations, Emily and Peggy are responsible for connecting cardboard and fishing lines, connecting them in series, fastening and observing the angle of suspension is correct, for the overall layout of the idea, we exchange views, programs. At the time of the initial layout, we tried the Peggy program.

 

As for how we hang on the roof, we borrowed the ladder from the photographic room.

First exhibition：