Jocelyn Crum's Blog :)

  For my monochrome piece I choose my favorite color, purple. I chose a variety of shades from the darkest to the lightest. I like how the shades compliment each other and and make the piece really pop.  For my complimentary colors I choose green and pink. The colors reminded me of gogort and the Fairly Odd Parents. I think the colors really make each other pop and make the piece very bright.  For my analogous colors I wanted to choose ones that gave me a comic-book feel. The mix of colors in this piece gives me an Andy Warhol feel, and was inspired by this piece on Marylin Monroe. 

  For my logo I wanted to use a symbol that represents me completely. I am very big on all types of love and peace. I find myself to be a very loving and peaceful person. My logo represents that with the hand symbol of two fingers crossed.  

  The first video I watched was the glow effect. I am pretty knowledgeable in photoshop because it was mainly what we used in my high school graphic design class. One of my favorite tools is the quick selection tool. It allows the user to  select portions of the object with ease. In the video they also used the blur effects, they add a lot to an image depending on which one you pick. In the video he uses the Gaussian blur to emphasize the glow effect.  The second video shows how to blend two images together. He used the quick selection tool to select the model from one image and brought her into the next using a clipping mask. He then uses the paintbrush tool to bring more of the first image into the second, creating a blended effect.  In the third video, he shows us how to one again blend two images but this time using an exposure method. This is my favorite of the three videos because he shows you a lot of the keyboard shortcuts for the functions and tools. His use of the paintbrush

  My piece is a modern recreation of the famous Rossie the Riveter poster, made by J. Howard Miller. My idea with this piece was to use its original meaning, boasting female moral during World Wat II and depict it in a more modern way. I took away the meaning of boasting female workers and instead used it as a way to convey the modern day problems women face. With Rossie being such a symbolic figure in feminism I decided to recreate her with the problem of reproductive rights women face today. The slogan "my body, my choice" is meant to serve as a reminder to all government officials that human should have unsolicited control over their own bodies. Especially in todays climate with things like safe abortion and Planned Parenthood are being targeted, I think reproductive and general women's health rights are at risk. 

  I want to use this iconic poster but replace its meaning with a more current problem, women's reproductivce rights. 

  For my Calligraphy piece I choose to depict the earth with my letter. I choose the earth because my dream is to one day travel it and see many different countries and cultures. I used different fonts and characters to depict space and the earth. Some tools I used were the type and shape tools. I tried to use the background as the default text with a very low space in-between them and a high stroke count. I used different characters like asterisk and periods to make the moon and stars.