Warhol

This is a pop art inspired by Andy Warhol. I used a picture of my Arizona State University flop that says SUN DEVILS on the strap part

This is my pop culture item its a giants hat (DUH!)

This is my Andy Warhol inspired portrait, this is my cousin Grace. (:

Facts:

Andy Warhol

·         Real name is Andrew Warhola (8/6/28-2/22/87) (Became Warhol after a misprint)

o   Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Parents from Czechoslovakia (does not exist anymore)

o   Father worked in a coal mine

·         In High School, kicked out of art club because he was “too good”

·         Graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Fine Arts)

·         Graduated with degree for pictorial design & wanted to become a commercial illustrator

·         Designed advertisements for women’s shoes

·         Used Polaroid camera

·         Fear of hospitals and doctors, hypochondriac

·         Favorite print making technique was silk screening

·         Friends & family described him as a workaholic

·         His sexuality was speculated upon and how this influenced his relationship to art is “a major subject of scholarship on the artist”

·         First solo expedition in 1952

·         Coined the term “15 minutes of fame”

·         1960s: iconic American products (pop art)

·         Created The Factory, his NYC studio from 1962-1968

·         Celebrity portraits developed into one of the most important aspects of his career

·         Made films (first one called Sleep – 6 hours of a man sleeping) (1963)

·         1965 said he was retiring from painting

o   1972 returned to painting

·         Designed cover for the Rolling Stones’ album Sticky Fingers (cover made out of real jean material)

·         Produced Velvet Underground’s first album

·         Started a magazine called Interview, worked for Glamour Magazine, Vogue

·         Shot by Valerie Solanas 3 times for being abusive and “too controlling” (6/3/68)

o   Solanas authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist document

o   "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."

·         Marilyn Monroe = favorite model (not painted until after death)

·         Wore silver wigs until he dyed his hair silver

·         Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic who described himself as a religious person

·         Died of a heart attack brought on by a gall bladder surgery and water intoxication

·         $100,000,000 for one of his paintings (highest amount paid) (“Eight Elvises”)

·         Referred to as the “Prince of Pop”

photoshop piece

 

This is my photoshop piece i used a few different elements. First i selected the area around the singer...lets call him Mike, for that is his name. So i selected Mike then glassian blurred the stage , band and audiance. after i chose my blur, I used a dodge tool and then a burn but i later added a Motion blur and then re did the dodge and burn creating the circles. that look like (to me) lights being blurred. please view my original image below.

Building

Mansion! Photo shopped to add value

Landscape

View from a cliff like thing. a clear S.F. day!

Little Toy

Shopping...buying a lot of Bieber gear. (: Friday

Cupcakes from scratch. Monday

Lazy day on Saturday

Dance Competition. 8th place... Bad weekend. Sunday

Fun in Photoshop. Hiking in Shasta Bieber's hometown.

Justin Bieber Never SAY Never 3d Thurday

Copy and Paste/ Blending

A recent trip to San Diego

a blended image of the Biebs(:

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Photographers Bio

       Heidi Kirkpatrick is a photographer well know for her unique style. Heidi uses a "toy camera" that has cracks in it that let in sunlight. Most photographers cover the light sockets because they feel it ruins the shot. Heidi choses not to beacuse she feels it adds more to her photo and sometimes makes the shot. Heidi takes simple shots but they are made completcated by her technique. Heidi has taught, won numberous awards among other things.

      Ansel Adams was born in 1902 in San Fransico. Ansel grew up in San Fransico and was homeschooled. He beacame an expert in black and white photography. He is well-know for his lanscape shots only capturing beauty of the world and no man made items except for things that fit in.Ansel died in 1984 but is well-known for his photography.