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Blurred photography p3

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Blurred photography p2

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Blurred photography p1

These are edits of photos taken before the college closed. 

I did things like cropping them, changing colours and contrast and adding filters.

I think these edits look very nice and that they have a good moody feel, whereas the originals were quite dull and had a very yellowy background which I didn’t like.

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The base portrait is ‘Self-Portrait’ by J.M.W Turner (c.1799). It was painted by him when he was a young man.

For the digital edit, I used the circle tool + grow selection + selection border + bucket fill on a layer mask on the picture of me to hide rings that expand from the centre. Then I used a ‘wave’ filter on the layer mask to make the jagged effect. Finally I messed with the brightness/contrast + colour balance.

At first I was rather intimidated by making a physical version because I had no idea how, but in the end I ‘layered’ it just like with the digital one. I painted a simple version of Turners picture with acrylics (I know the real one is oils, but I’ve never used oils in my life and this seem complicated enough already) then I masked off it in rings, painted my face over it, then finally I removed the tape. I’m pretty happy with it considering I think I’ve barely ever painted portraits with acrylics. Makes me want to try doing some that don’t involve painting over most of them.

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I used ‘Girl in a Chemise’ (c. 1905) by Picasso for the base portrait. It is likely of his lover Madeleine.

I added the picture of myself and used a layer mask to hide parts so as to merge it with the painting. I copied the eyes of both pictures and flipped and swapped them. I added a ‘cartoon’ filter to the picture of me, some lines around the borders of he cutouts and the usual brightness/contrast + colour stuff.

I draw the physical version with fineliners and markers. I think it turned out well. It’s the only one I think looks better than the digital version. I particularly like the background which I did with the chisel tip end of the markers and I think made a nice paint like effect. I think that was the first time I’ve ever found the chisel tips even slightly useful!

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I picked this portrait of May Morris by Robert Faulkner & Co in the 1870s.

I added the picture of myself with the layer mode set to hard light so they merge together. Then copied the border of the old picture onto a new layer so I could overlay it on both images. I then added a wave effect to my photo and played with the brightness/contrast + colour balance. I quite like how this looks. I think it could be nice to do this with a picture of myself as a child/an ancestor instead of a random stranger.

I made the physical with watercolour paints and Indian ink for the black and fineliners for the outlines. I am ok with how it looks but I prefer the digital version. I think the digital collages as I’ve been making them are not very suited to drawing.

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This portrait of author Radclyffe Hall by an unknown photographer caught my eye for this task because her style is unusual for the 1930s and because she is holding a puppy

I added a picture of myself into it digitally using the ‘lighten only’ layer mode. I also a black and grey parts to the background because you couldn’t see the puppy otherwise because it breaks up the image and makes it more interesting. Finally I messed around with the brightness/contrast and the colour balance. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.

For the drawn version I used watercolour pencils and watercolour paints but I really hate it. I’m not good at drawing/painting without outlines. The black and white parts look alright, but the coloured parts look wrong, though I’m having trouble explaining why.

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My stop motion animation.

Made from a combination of newspaper collage, print out images and drawings.