Thursday 28 March 2013

A meaningful visit to National Art Gallery


One day, for our field trip in order to enable us to gain more knowledge about arts, we are asked by our lecturer Mr. Khairul to pay a visit at the National Art Gallery.  I went there myself as I have some other things to do personally before I join my friends to the Art Gallery, and I lost my way when I’m looking for my way to the National Art Gallery, eventually I found my way there and manage to catch my friends and lecturer too before they leave.

Anyway, when I walk in to the National Art Gallery, in the 1st hall on my left, the first art piece I saw, and I can never it out from my head. It is sort of an 3D art, and it’s name of the piece is After Guernica by an artist named Suhaidi Razi. The artist gave an image of politics issue from the point of view of the west countries like Europe  This art piece shows me how important peace and harmony to society as the art piece shows the consequence for not being peaceful in a society.

The next art piece I personally like are some art piece showing some childhood memories. This art piece named Si Kecil Manis by an artist Maslin Ramly. This art piece made of wax and under the wax there are colorful pieces like lollipops, a cute dress and etc. I like the way the artist uses wax for this art piece, it creates a frozen like of image which also means keeping our childhood memories. Apart from that, using wax may cause the image and object underneath it to be blurry  which also similar to our memories, which we cant recall our memories clearly, yet, is inside our mind.

I recall this 2 art piece not because I love it, I wanted to share how I feel and what I obtain from the field trip. Youngster nowadays are too much into digital stuff and they hardly aware and get in touch with all of these beautiful art piece, painting, drawings and a lot more. And now that our government are able to provide our society by building art galleries, youngster should be motivate to get out of the house and pay a visit to explore and learnt these art. 

Friday 1 March 2013

Step by step~~Vintage PopArt

Hey everybody, welcome back to my blog...^^
Last week, I had learned about how to create a vintage pop art...
And here, i will show you How i did mine...^^
Enjoy...=)

My idea is about super moms...
So, i gave the object a tough, super and caring image...^^
I refer to a website and guidance from my lecturer when I'm doing this...
So it will be pretty much similar but different theme and object used...
link to the website i refer


Step 1 :
Look for a vintage paper/background from google image...
Any vintage paper will do...but look out for image with watermarks on them...
Open the image at photoshop...


Step 2 : 
I use the paint brush on black with very low hardness to paint the edge of the background to make it looks lke a dirt
There are other ways which by using cloud, but then due to the background already have patterns on it so i just use brush instead...
After that , I look for a man in suit image and crop d body
Paste on the vintage background and adjust the size of the body



Step 3 :
I go for a super woman image
and i crop the super woman head and hair and fix and blend it with the collar of the suit
for the body part i add on an apron image on it due to mom do cook...=)


Step 4 : 
Add on the sunburst shape and i download it from a website
I click on Layer then i choose add shape 
Look for the sunburst shape i want for my image then i click multiply the layer 
So, the shape can be seen on the background without having it covering anything...

Step 5 :
Next, I would like to add different pattern on the paper 
I look for texture i like and save it in the pattern on photoshop
then i select the area i would fill the pattern on to and add the pattern 
I use cloud effect to colour out the pattern i like...


Step 6 :
I want to put in other other pattern too...
i choose rose image pattern...
i add new pattern of the roses and enlarge them to the size i prefer and then multiply...

Step 7 :
I look for inspiring word image
crop it out to the size i want, paste and adjust the angle i want...
I found 4 word i think it will best describe moms
they are Family, Love, Strong, and Dream...
Adjust the layer by pulling the words behind the mom image but infont of everything else...

Step 8 :
Pasting on the background will not back it standout...
I add on shadows to all 4 words by go to drop shadow in edit layer and add the shadow on...

Step 9 :
Look for 3 more vintage paper
I used eraser to erase some of the edge to make a tear paper effect
And use the burn tool to make all 3 paper looks burn and old...
Crop and paste and adjust to the space and size i want...
Add shadow as well for all 3 paper and adjust the layer for overlapping paper...

Step 10 : 
Is almost done...
Add text to the 3 paper added in the previous step...
I used different font but similar colors for each letter i put...
And adjust the angle to match the paper angle... 

Step 11 : 
Add the last word on top of the 3 paper
And same step as above, choose different font from the 3 letters 
Add drop shadow on the words to make it stand out a little...
And The End...^^
Here is my final piece...=)