Last week, we visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We walked around and took pictures of different textures as well as pieces that contained nooks, niches, or shelves. The nook/shelves that I found the most interesting was a painting by Henry Alexander. The title of the piece is “In the Laboratory.” It was painted with oil on canvas. The subject of the painting is a man, Thomas Price, in a laboratory, surrounded by test tubes and container of many differently colored liquids. This is the painting.
This is the painting that I used for the masks.
In the class after the Met, we started to work in Photoshop. Before we visited the Met, we created a still life line drawing. For our first project in Photoshop, we used this line drawing in combination with the photo of the nook, niche, or shelve to make a still like collage in Photoshop. We used masks and layers to make the collage. We learned how to make the mask as well as learning to edit the masks. This is my line drawing.
This is the pallet.
This is my first collage with masks.
When we finished the Still Life Collage, we continued working with masks but we used the fill tool as well as the brush tool. For the second piece, we just used the fill tool and brush tool for minor revisions. This is the piece that I made.
This was the piece using fill and brushes.
For the third piece we combined the first two pieces. We used the painting of the nook, niche, or shelve in combination with the fill tool and the brush tool to create a collage. We also were allowed to experiment with the different kinds of brushes. This is the piece that I made for this part of the project.
This is the piece using masks and fill and brushes.
Over all it was a fun but frustrating experience. I really liked working with Photoshop and learning a small part of it. But it was frustrating when I couldn’t figure out how to do something.
