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Each section of my pinwheel was its own theme technically. I chose the 4 themes because they are/were issues in my own life, like my dog being ran over and killed, my years of being bullied for as long as i can remember, and craving love rather than money (power of money). I faced major issues trying to get my pinwheel to spin, if there was one thing i would do differently, itd be a new structure for making my pinwheel spin better. That was my big down fall, i liked my design and my idea, but the spinning concept is what would bring my final product down. It now only spins when it wants to.


 * || The piece I chose was of a couple, because I knew I wanted to be able to look at the project when it was all said and done and think of a time I was happy and in love. I have always been a fan of art that resembles my experiences. Another reason I chose this piece was I really loved the colors of it. I knew I didn’t want black and white, I wanted something appealing to the eye that is the first thing to catch your eye when you look at a group of photos or a focal point of a room.

I ran into a lot of problems with this piece of art. My first encounter was the amount of analyzing I tried to do in the gridding and placement of shapes of colors. Then there was an issue of starting with pastels and making the colors blend but ending up with precise lines in difference of shades. So I began with paint, but was afraid to ‘act like an artist’ and paint strokes instead of matching the design with shaping the colors exactly how they were in the picture. My last problem I faced was the amount of detail in the different shades of colors and the amount of different elements in the design as a whole.

I like the original design better than my own because the colors are a lot more bold and intricate. I have parts that I do like about my design, the common favorite is the bright colors of the leaves in the trees, and I like the trees as a whole. I like looking at the picture as a whole, from a distance, because if I get too close I begin to notice its faults and want to fix them or just really don’t want to look at the picture anymore because of its imperfections. My least favorite part is the path way because the colors don’t look right to me. ||

When first starting the process it was a challenge not knowing what exactly I was going to do. If one has experience with any other photo editing application, like photoshop, the tools are not difficult to work with or figure out what they do because they have used it before. I for example used photoshop last year in a computer class at my old school, so learning the tools wasn't the issue for me. The issue for me was figuring out what I wanted to do with the girl and picking the site to use to make the project. I had finally decided to use Aviary.com.

I first began by cutting out the girl herself and painting the colors and fixing the name on the shirt to make it look more clean than the original. Once that task was finished I went on to the process of finding a background and struggled to find the right one to use. When i finally did find one, i added the file on a layer under the person and replaced the person to fit in a decent place. After all that was left to do is use an erase tool to touch up some spots that i didn't like, such as in between the fingers and the legs.

Over all the project could have been better, but any project can always be better than it was before. If I was a master at photoshop I'm sure I could have done a much better job at making the original into a masterpiece all its own. The important thing is I am learning to think outside the box, and the assignment in the future will be better than the first time around.