Acrylic Paint - Colour study

This is my study of acrylic paint. A collection of practices of how acrylic paint is used and can be potentially be used for my works.

Photoshopping

These are the collection of photographs I took using the College's Photography camera Canon.
I chose to focus on Action, Rule Of Thirds and Leading Lines. The first picture is Action, I took the picture as the model flipped her hair. The two pictures in the centre are Leading Lines, the corridor ceiling and the railings leads the viewer around the photo. The bottom photo is the Rule of Thirds, the model is posing on the 2/3 line, this position allows the viewer to be more intimate with the photo.
I used Photoshop to change the lighting of the photos, I tried to make each of the photo have low contrast to create a soft tone. The photo on the left side of the middle section has high contrast and sharp tone, this was done to create a darker atmosphere for the corridor compared to the outdoors photo on it right side.

I used the top image and the left side of the middle section image to create a new image, I thought these two would be suitable because they were taken in the same room, making it easier to edit the two photos into one.

Layer 1 = Female model

Layer 2 = Model walking down the corridor.

I changed the opacity of the image with the male model to 60% and applied masking to it. I began to use the brush to cover Layer 2. I changed the size of Layer 2's image so it would look more natural, the model needed to look small enough to fit the corridor and big enough to be identifiable.

Finished product: I fused together two images to create an image of a ghost walking down the corridor.

Museum and Art Gallery

Museum and Art Gallery
Located in the Riversley Park near the town centre.
There was an exhibition on objects from the past, the theme was called "Photographs from 1950s".

 Memorial statue for the soldier who died in the Great Wars.




Turns out,

the gallery is closed on Mondays.

 River that flows through the town and park.

Blocked off alley way in the town centre.

Blog design update

 

I made the background picture on Firealpaca using my graphic tablet. It took me 35 minutes, I finished this as quick as possible so replace my skeleton background, which did not relate to my theme.

The background picture is the Himalayas, I put together two photos which I thought would go well together and traced over them. I used Pen (Fade In/Out), Pencil, Smudge and Watercolour tools. The colour consists of mostly black, white and brown. I tried to limit the colours I use so the photos in my blog posts can stand out.

The images ended up looking a bit pixelated when I uploaded it to the Blogger site, this might be because I didn't measure the size of the canvas to match with the blog's width.