Word Art

For my word art, I chose to put the word 'Lily' into the shape of an actual lily.  The way I did it was I took a photo I had of a lily, and put the words over top, and shaped them to the photo to get the actual shape of a lily.  I also arched some of the words and made the fonts become smaller so I could get the real look of a pedal.  I decided to use spring colours as well to go with the whole flower theme.  Then in the end, I took the photo out from underneath and got a lily, made out of the word 'Lily'.  To save time with this project, I just duplicated the layers, rotated and skewed each one to the way I wanted it to fit the shape of the photo, and changed the font sizes and colours too.

Pig Art

CD Cover - Eminem "Lose Yourself"

For my CD cover, I chose to a cover for Eminem, naming the album one of his songs, "Lose Yourself".  The background of my cover relates to my artist because Eminem wrote the song "Lose Yourself" for the movie he filmed based on his life called "8 Mile".  8 mile in Detroit  is where he's from, and the whole song is basically about how he starting rapping in underground competitions before he became famous.  His neighbourhood was a "ghetto" area, so I thought my background suited the whole underground and "ghetto" feel, especially with the graffiti.  I also put a spray paint cloud behind my album title to add to this.

Triptych of Lilys

For my triptych, I wanted up close flowers because I think they are cool to look at up close and see the texture and lines on the pedals and the insides are intriguing.  I wanted to make them look really different from the original photos, but decided to keep them like this because it looks like light is coming through the pedals.  First, I went into the brush strokes effects and put a filter onto the photos called accented edges.  Then I changed the saturation to 60, the contrast to 20, and the brightness to 17.  To add the final touch, I went into the artistic effects and put another filter on the photos called rough pastels.

One World Living Together - Mulitcultural Festival 2011

I believe my poster is suited for this event because I've got a photo of the world in someone's hands giving a feel of all of us being together in these hands, and no one is outside of the hands because we all live together in our world.  I've also got a lot of ethnic diversity in the faces I have chosen to represent our many cultures in our world: Asian, African-American, Caucasian, Indian, Mexican/Spanish, Bi-racial, etc.  I added the peace symbol too, to represent that we all live together in peace with eachother, not all places have world peace, but it's what we hope to have one day, the whole world in peace.  Finally, I chose to make the letters rainbow colours to represent the many colours in our society.  

Keith Hawkins - 4

Keith Hawkins - 3