PAGE_My Driving Question

Artists in this day are more advanced in their knowledge abd exploration of art. Poeple's emotions and opinions have expanded over the years, and their view on recent art has or has not changed.

With peace art, the artist is trying to put you at ease. They are trying to communicate "their" feelings and view of peace. They want you to understand how they feel.

What is the connection between the artist and the viewer?


OUR DRIVING QUESTION:

Could a song about peace inspire one to be a better person, therefore be more "pro-peace" ? how?


SOME STUDIES have shown that listening to violent music lyrics or heavy metal increase agressive and hostile thoughts and feelings*. But what if the music that was listened to was about peace? How would the listeners feeling or thoughts change or stay the same??

One site claims that listening to peaceful music while medatating can improve the medatation drastically and make it easi er to achieve the peak of medatation.


"It's a proven scientific fact that every cell in your body is affected by the sounds that you hear — be it music, spoken words, or noise from traffic. The good news is that you have great influence over what sounds you expose yourself to."

-Tania Gabriel.



















*= www.apa.org/releases/violentsongs.html

www.scienceblog.com/cms/violent_lyrics_increase_
aggressive_thoughts_feelings_study_finds - 39k -

clearinghouse.missouriwestern.edu/manuscripts/209.asp

a) What changes did you make to the original images you used?

I took a picture of of ids in a class room with a boy in the from writing a note, I used this image as my backround. i made him look agry by liquifying his eyebrow to a more mad shape. I then took an image of a girl and made it black and white. I used a layer mask on the "girl face" layer and blended it into the back round so it didn't look as if i had just cut and pasted it. I got a piece of lined paper from google and draged it onto my image. I then created another layer of text and tilter it so it apperaed to be on the paper. Finally i put some font to bring the image together.

b) What pleases you most about the technical quality of your work? Why?

I like what i did to his eyebrow it is a subtle touch, except i think it really made the image. I didn't expect it to turn out so well.

c) What displeases you most about the technical quality of your work? Why?

The fact that respect isnt noticable and with looks like it the most promenent word because i needed to make it legable against the dark hair.

d) What new techniques or skills did you learn through the completion of this activity?

I learned that when you use liquafy, it doesnt alwase have to look extreme and ridiculous, you can maake it more suttle.

e) What message did you hope to convey in your collage, if any?

How much a little note reall hurts one person. and that no one will respect you if your a bully, the closest thing to respect would be fear.

f) What emotional response do you hope to elicit from your audience?

When you bully someone, even if they dont look hurt infront of you, you can be damaging them alot.

g) What changes would you make to improve on this image?

The lettering

Digital Artist's Canvas Proposal

"I am aware that I will be evaluated on the final product and on my successful presentation of my concept or theme. I am aware that Peter must approve this project idea before I continue."

Here is what I learned during my research:

When someone is being bullied it is not alwase obvious. Bullying can be unnoticed for the longest time. Like bullying over MSN or messages on facebook, notes passed in classrooms and other fashions as such. Bullying can be stoped when one person realizes that to gfet respect they must give it, even if they are not in the wrong. With respect comes peace, and bullying can be as small as someone tripping another person or it can take form of one country attacking a smaller one.

Here are three ideas/topics that I have thought of:

A classroom scean where one student is writing a hate note to another student. With the words "Give respect to get respect" and then it says and "and with respect comes peace"

my seocnd idea is to have more of a global scene. It could be somethign like an image of a globe with other images intergraded into it, on oone side would be images that show disrespect and on the other side it could have images of respect it would say " Respect Makes Peace" and on the bottom in smaller writing it would say " We Are Alll In This Together " to show that if everyone was respectful of themselves and others, peace would come naturally


A third idea that i have is to make an image that is some one on a computor looking at thier inbox full of hate messages and on the bottom it says " respect yourself enough to respect me, because with respect comes peace"



The idea I have chosen to pursue is:

number 2

What Is Real??- Performance Task

To make this What is real-Performance task as realistic as possible, I seletcted the plane and the cloud and droped them into the skyline. I duplicated the could, flip it vertically and sized it down using th transform tools. To make them more realitic I made the smaller cloud more stretched horisontally. I then went into the variations on the clouds and made them belong more by adding more cyan and making them lighter. To blend them more I went into the blending options of the layers and changed the oppacity so you could see the plane slightly through the big cloud. To make the cloud look less like the painting it was, I used the smudge tool and smudged it around. I used the history brush on the bottom of the clouds to make the cloud look thinner.

Helene's Unreal Animal

To make this "scary squirrel" I started with a backround of a squirrel eating a nut, I then took a picture of a lion yawning. I selected the lion's mouht with the lasoo and drag and droped it onto the squirrel backround . I used almost all of the transforme tools to adjust the mouth to make it fit as best as possible; including rotate, scale, perspective and skew. I took another picture of a bat with its wings open, and selected one and drop it onto the squirrel. i had to make a layer of the squirrels back and head so i could put the wings under its body. On the farthest wing i made it a bit darker and gave it a gaussian blur to make it look more realistic. I also went into the variations and made both the wings mnore yellow so they looked like they belonged in the picture. Finally I blured the back into the wings and smuged the wing to stretch onto the back.

HELENE BUNCE