Anachronism Project: Swipe Right for King Henry VIII

Anachronism is the idea of taking something from one point in time and combining it with something from another point in time, such as Abraham Lincoln in a Starbucks or an iPhone on a cave painting. I decided to take a humorous approach to my piece by creating a Tinder profile for King Henry VIII of England. Henry VIII is infamous for his six wives, two of whom he executed in order to marry other women. Tinder is a common dating app that was released in 2012 and gained popularity in 2014.

To create my piece, I first drew and painted a portrait of Henry. I had to repeat those steps a few times because I wasn't satisfied with my first images. I finally had to settle on the one I used above since I didn't want to waste anymore time. I then uploaded the image onto Photoshop and add a few effects and filters to make the portrait look impressionistic. Lastly, I used Adobe Illustrator and a reference Tinder profile from the internet to make the profile page. I added a section describing Henry in the very end to give the image some humor. Overall, I am very satisfied with this piece as a whole, but I feel that if I had more time I would be able to improve the portrait of Henry to make it resemble him more.

Also, the image above is one that I had to email to myself, so the size of the picture got smaller. When I get to school Monday I will replace the image above with the original and larger version.

Pop Art Project

This past week in my art class I was tasked with creating a pop art piece. I decided that I wanted to use photoshop and create the pop art graphically. I used the members of the Rat Pack as the celebrities for each of my pieces. To make them, I duplicated the photo and then used the pen tool to select areas. I then changed the colors to create a pop art effect. I have two of the pieces I made pictured here. One is of Frank Sinatra and the other is Sammy Davis Jr. I will make the pop art images of the other three members next.

Art Start Quote

"Artists who seek

perfection in everything

are those who cannot

attain it in anything."

-Eugene Delacroix

I believe that Delacroix is trying to say that when an artist seeks perfection, it it hard to get that perfection in the art because nothing can be perfect. Nothing is ever perfect because perfection depends on the person who sees it. Each person has a different perspective of art, so what one might see as perfect could be completely hideous to another.

Art Start Quote

"All of us must eventually do

what the matador does: go out

and face not only the bull, but

the crowd. It does the matador

little good, provides him little

satisfaction to make beautiful

passes alone in a moonlit pasture."

-Chuck Jones

In this quote, Jones is referring to the satisfaction someone gets when they are performing in front of a crowd. Since people depend and act on the opinions of others, performers need to have a crowd to show off their accomplishments and get feedback from the crowd in order to gain self-confidence. Also, if a performer were to perform by himself without a crowd, he/she would not get paid which would make his/her efforts pointless.

Jelly Bean Paintings

 

This is a recreation of Van Gogh's Starry Night. The twist with this piece is that it is made of Jelly Beans. I thought that it is really cool how someone was able to recreate the painting using pieces of candy and still keep the details. The image underneath is another recreation using Jelly Beans. It is a recreation of Jan Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring. The detail on the girl is incredible and I really appreciate how the artist accounted for the shading.

1001 Nights Fairy Tale

For the past two weeks I was tasked with creating an image based on a fairy tale. The image is also supposed to be inspired by the artist Camille Garcia Rose, who recreates fairy tales with a dark twist. The fairy tale I chose was 1001 Nights because I remember it being one of my favorite fairy tales when I was a child. I also remembered a Looney Tunes movie based on the fairy tale called 1001 Bunny Tales that I really liked and which helped me to decide on 1001 Nights. 1001 Nights is about a king who orders his assistant to find him a new wife and out of the fear that the wife may cheat on him, kills her the next day. This goes on for a few months until finally the assistant runs out of women. The assistant's daughter offers to be the next wife and on the wedding night she tells the king a story but leaves it on a cliff hanger. The king is too interested in how the story ends, so he does not kill her and waits the next night to hear the end of the story. The assistant's daughter finishes the story and starts a new one, but again she leaves it on cliff hanger. This continues for the next 1001 nights until finally the king accepts her as his new wife and they all live happily ever after.

I created my image by drawing with pencil first and then coloring with color pencil. I drew a genie lamp, a book, a knife, and an Arabic man since those are main elements of the story. I wanted to use cool colors in the background and then add red to contrast, which is something I noticed Rose did in her artwork and I liked. The red diamonds are not as bright as I wanted them, but I still liked the effect it gave the image. I added the names of the most famous stories told in 1001 Nights on the left and right sides (Ali Baba, Sinbad, and Aladdin). After making the piece, I took a photo of it and uploaded to Photoshop. I had to adjust the brightness and contrast so all of the details could be seen. I also had to fix the glare that appeared on the middle of the image because of the camera and lighting. Finally, I adjusted the colors to make them brighter and cropped/resized the image.

Art Start

"Clock strikes 12.

You have to hurry before everything changes. 

What do you leave behind?"

This quote is obviously inspired by the story Cinderella where the titular character, Cinderella, leaves behind her shoe in order to allow for her true love to find her again. If I were in a similar situation, I would most likely leave behind the bill because I am running since I am late. Also, I am in high school so I don't think I would have a so called "true love" and if my situation is the exact same as Cinderella's, I think I am smart enough not to fall in love with someone I just met an hour or two ago. Leaving the bill (a food bill or a valet charge) would be beneficial to me because I'd be saving money and if I really wanted to find him, I could by asking who payed the bill. On the other hand, if the guy is a prince I would probably stay because no matter what may happen at 12, I would probably become pretty rich by sticking around and that would be a win-win for both me and the guy.