Blog Prompts #9-11

9. Pick a sculpture that you like. Write a description of how you might use 3D modeling in Photoshop to make this sculpture part of a photographic image.

I love Katie MccGuire’s stunning sculptures created of thousands of feathers. Some of the feathers are printed with numbers and others are colored. They overlap and writhe and almost seem fluid in her painstakingly constructed compositions. I think it would be very difficult to replicate her work in Photoshop but if I were to try I would use a 3d tool to make a shape and warp the texture of feathers around it. I could then use the magnetic lasso tool to cut the form out and bring it into a space.

10. Describe an impossible scenario. Describe how you can create this scene using digital photographic compositing.

An anti-gravity bedroom may be interesting? Microscopic animals? Both of these scenes could be made using the lasso tool to cut out individual images and bring them into the setting (i.e. a bedroom or the palm of your hands). You could then apply a drop shadow and warp it accordingly. Colors and levels could be modified to make the image appear cohesive and believable. The more I think about it, the more I want a pocket sized giraffe…

11. Collages, montages, assemblages, and composites often bring together disparate items, objects, scenes, places, and people. The process of combining seemingly unrelated or unexpected items can be inspired by spontaneous thoughts/experiments. Describe some ideas, thoughts, and things that come to mind when you think of “combination” or “assemblage”. Try to perform this brainstorm using a stream of consciousness technique in which you list anything that comes to mind. You can add to this list… Here goes… fractured/combined identities, old newspapers + grass, constant bombarding of images via mass media, looking through a kaleidoscope, doll + baby, cut a bike in half and add a tree, etc. …

One man's trash, old paper, message boards, taxidermy, tin toys, anchors, pin-up girls, pouring paint, Roxy's, neon lights, hand stitching, bird's wings, bug collections, cages, old rope, braids, fingerprints, yellowing tape, library cards, stamping, dirt, robots, quarter machine toys, Chinese finger traps, food labels, bicycle tires, antlers, porcelain, glitter, fake money, game pieces, brown paper bags, cigarette butts, crowns, tea bags, magnifying glasses, confetti, dusty books, keys, 3-D glasses, pressed flowers, hair, baby teeth, plastic dinosaurs!