Digital self portraits

For this assignment we had to take a phot of ourselves and then edit it in adobe photoshop.

The initial goal was to create a photo in which you as a person was expressed

This was my final result. I like it because it has many colours and it has a graffiti look. Also it looks quite mysterious, which I also quite like. Another thing which I think has come out great is the spinning effect in the photo.

Photography

for the new art assignment we had to make some photos and edit them, for now only unedited photos will be uploaded, later on edited photos will be uploaded

Book cover assignment

For this assignment we were asked to make a bookcover about yourself, so you had to pretend somebody had written a book about you, for which you had to illustrate the cover.

My final result turned out to be quite disappointing, because I lost some of my pictures which I wanted to use for the collage on the front of the book cover. However, I still got a 7 for this assignment, so I'm satisfied with the mark

about yourself

this assignment was about yourself. you had to make a rather small drawing with typical things about you, but the hard part of this assignment wasthat you had to fade different colours into each other. I had a 6.5 for this drawing, I'm verry happy with that mark because my whole drawing was just an insane mess.

illuminated letter

the first assignment of the year was the illuminated letter. this means that we had to maek a letter which was derived form the medieval timeperiod, so with loads of decorations but a limited amount of colours.
I had a 7 for this assignment. I don't have a picture because i can't send pictures from my phone to my laptop, but this is how it looks like: a large B with yellow/gold colour. and some green and blue lining. in the circles of the B I pictured heaven and hell. (what I taught really typical for those times) on the background I had a map like shape with some islands and sea around it.
I only used colour pencil, because you can ''mix'' these well

for the new school year (13-14) we had to keep our blogs up to date so here's the new post to bring the blog in activity!

Johannes Itten

Johannes Itten

Johannes Itten was a Swiss painter. He lived from 1888 till 1967. The thing where he is the most famous for is the ’farbkreis’ (colourwheel in English). That is a colour theory that is based on three colours: blue, red, yellow. He said that you can make all colours you want if you put two of the three colours by each other with paint.

His life

He was born in Südern-Linden in Switzerland. When he was sixteen he studied to work as schoolteacher. Later he studied at the ‘Bern-Hofwil teacher academy.’ When he was finished with his study he worked at the Bauhaus (an art college in Germany). He was a little bit strange because he influenced his group. The whole group had the same clothes and that kind of things. In 1922 he left the Bauhaus because a conflict. In 1924 he started as director on the Zürich art academy. Johannes Itten died in 1967 in Zürich

The colourwheel

The colourwheel was built up by three layers: the primary layer in the centre with: blue, red and yellow Itten thought that that the basic colours are. Then  you have the secondary layer around the centre with: green, orange and purple. The last one is the tertiary layer with the primary and secondary colours mixed up with each other

Johannes Itten himself