Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Patricia Piccinini's art works - my favourites

These are my favourite artworks of Patricia Piccinini's.




These are surrealistic sculptures and also hyper-realistic.
I like this first image of baby because it looks like a new born pug puppy.
Patricia Piccinini's hyper-realism makes her sculpture look like its real,
so people might find it disturbing to see. 


This second image looks like an 'old' baby in its bed.
He somehow looks like a monkey with extremely large eyes.
I actually found its face cute, because of the eyes.
However I don't like all those wrinkles around its neck and face.


I found this image quite funny because of the young boy's face.
He looks like an animal if I only look at is mouth and nose.
Also it is really weird that he is doing an acrobatic action on a goat.
I like it how Patricia made the boy's body look really heavy,
but he can stand with his one arm.


I think this piece is really cute. 
I love Patricia's idea of making an motorcycle into two cute little creatures.
They kind of look like slugs made of metal.


This last image of mother and baby is quite weird.
The mother is a monkey and she is breast feeding her baby.
I like it how she has a human baby and holding her baby like a real mother.
Also its really interesting that the mother doesn't have any hair on her body,
but only on her face and head.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Sheep Feast - Surrealist Photoshop Task


Sheep Feast (created by Jessica)

This is my Surrealist Photoshop Task that I've done in my art class.To explain how I created this photo, I got two back ground images which are fireworks and farmland.Then I made the firework the very basic background image of this photo. I created another layer for the farmland and using polygonal lasso tool, I deleted the sky to make the fireworks appear. Next I got photos of each warwolf and sheep. Using the same method, I deleted the back ground of warwolf and sheep. For each image, i created a new layer. Then I applied Hue/Saturation for warwolf and sheep. Then I duplicated the image of sheep many times by pressing command+c and command+v.I changed the size of each sheep images, using free-transform tool (command+t).After changing colours of sheep with Hue/Saturation tool, I created new layer for speech bubble.To create the speech bubble, I used Elliptical Marque tool and polygonal lasso tool to draw a basic outline of it.Then I pressed shift+F5 for fill effect and ctrl+right click for blending option and stroke. I inserted the text using the text tool.

I didn't enjoy this task that much because I felt quite boring with photoshop.
The process was not that hard, but I wanted to created something more funny.
If I have another session to create surrealist landscape photo, I would try a person in chocolate mud cake or something like that.