Art : Photography

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post. For the past weeks in art, we have been learning about photography, we looked at different photographs taken by famous photographers, we even took some photos ourselves. After that, we then got to learn how to use photoshop and how to apply some different styles to our photo using photoshop.

Slinkachu

For the first few weeks, we were learning about Slinkachu. Slinkachu is an artist from the UK who creates his own mini figurines and then creates a little plot for the figurines, he then leaves the figurines behind. His work embodies the elements of street art, sculpture, installation art, and photography. So by using him as an inspiration, we took some photos using small figurines and some objects to create a scene with the figurines.

For each of our photographs, we thought of a theme to go along with that a specific photo. For example, my partner and I thought that we should take some photos that represent the theme "Crime Scene". Where either one of the figurines would be hurt, dead or were surrounded by soldiers. Another theme that we did was "Another Self" where we used identical figurines and used a platform to make them face each other. 

Scene: Woman captured by soldiers.

Scene: Crime scene - Woman left to deteriote by
suspicious people.

Crime Scene like the photo above. 

A photograph we like to call "Another Self"

One of my favourite photographs were when we used blu-tack to stick to the figurine because we were supposed to hide the blue tack we thought that it was pretty hard since the figurines were small. So we thought "Why not use the blu-tack to model with the figurine?" So we came out with this outcome:

Inspired by a photo from Slinkachu.

Different View of the previous photo.

Theme: Someone drowning.

Theme: Someone Drowning in something toxic.

After taking some photos we then used the photos and created some thumbnail drawings with it. In the drawing, we highlighted the focal point and the leading lines of the photo, we also labelled the picture if it was symmetrical or not. 

Photoshop & Overlay or Collage 

For this topic, we also used the photos we took from the previous topic and use photoshop to apply overlay and collage techniques to edit the photos. We also learned some new skills from using photoshop and applied these skills to editing our photos. Some of the artists I covered when applying these skills were Chad Wys, Aliki Braine, and Randy Grskovic.

Inspired by:

Inspired by: 

Reflection: In my opinion, I did well in this topic because I work hard to complete the work that was set and I think that the photos we took were pretty cool.

Question: Which photographs did you like the most?

Sources: https://slinkachu.com/