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Week 1: Self Portrait

Posted in 52 of 2016 by

Well what better way to start out the new year and the new challenge than by looking at myself.  Oh, my favorite 😐  Yes, I know you know, I kind of hate self portraits, but lucky for me I’m at the beach and with a good idea in hand!  Well, I’m not at the beach, per se, but I am in Florida (woo hoo!), and went to the beach yesterday with the intentions of taking a “self portrait”.

So, like many of my other self portraits, this on is a little abstracted, if you will, and doesn’t show my face.  When my friend was watching me shoot these, she was completely confused on how this constituted as a self portrait, but no where does it say that I have to take a picture of my face, does it?  I suppose that’s what people typically think of, but when consulting my good ole friend, dictionary.com, it states that a portrait depicts “a likeness of a person, especially of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph”…..but not specifically the face!

So with that, I happily took a few photos of myself, well, more specifically, my feet!  You know I love the beach, and my toes in the sand, so I though, instead of torturing myself on vacation and trying to get a glamorous, gorgeous “selfie”, why not do something fun.  So I snapped a couple pictures and ended up combining a few together.  Photoshop is something that I really need to practice in, and not forget the little I have learned before the next semester starts in a couple weeks.  So while I liked the bubbles and water of one image, I also liked all the little shells (coquina clams, or as I like to call them, baby clams) in another, and decided to join the two together to get the perfect little beach image.  So enjoy!  I had fun practicing, and hope that my composite isn’t too obvious.  I’m happy with it, but I’ll keep practicing anyways 🙂

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A “Spooky” Biggest Fear

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So as promised, I’m going to try to finish this year and 52 week challenge up with a bang!  So when thinking of what could fit in to these categories, a “spooky” week 44 and “biggest fear” of a week 45, which most likely were supposed to line up with Halloween, I can only think of one thing….

Artist’s Block

You would think that with the millions of ideas I always talk about on here that I should have no problem thinking of things to do for finals.  Sorry to report, but in this case, you’re dead wrong.  So as I got hit with a barrage of 4 creative finals for my studio classes, I also got hit with a nice serving of artist’s block.  Just incase you don’t get it, it’s like writer’s block for artists 🙂  No matter what I did, or looked at, or researched, or read, nothing was coming to mind for the first two weeks of my final project work time.  I didn’t think this would happen, especially since I have so many people here to help, but it did.

It was pretty nightmarish, in fact.  I’ve worked incredibly hard over this entire semester, and have done pretty well, and now this.  Am I going to ruin my good street over this stupid little bit of creative backup?  Well, it’s over now, so I hope I didn’t.  And for the one, solid, I’m-excited-for-this idea that I had….my model canceled.  That’s a cancellation after I bough props, started making a dress, and made plans to go to the location.  Blower.  Oh well, I think things worked out in the end, though I’m confident that for at least two of my projects (one of which was photography, unfortunately) this was not my strongest work.  Hopefully my hard work throughout the semester will keep me afloat (and by afloat I mean with an “a” in the class).

So to represent the sentiment of this artist’s block which has been tormenting me for the last nearly month now, here’s a fun little photos hoped image.  With some old frames that were up in my apartment, and the handy ability to copy and paste nearly anything from online, here are my blank canvases.  If you could have seen inside my mind over the last couple weeks, this is all the turning wheels were putting out.  Not the best photoshopping, but that’s somewhat intentional.  Since I haven’t done my best work due to this, and I’m so done with this semester, this is what it’s come down to.

But wouldn’t you know it….the ideas are flowing now :/  Enjoy!

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