First day back at college and what are we asked to do? Work with a partner to take photos of each other, manipulate them in Photoshop, print them off and make a book of the best, and then produce a paper based triptych on the theme of ‘Past, Present and Future’ inspired, more or less, by our images.
I’m sure you realise how devastated I was by this.
There were two drawbacks – first, that the college network was working at the speed of a paralytic tortoise, and the other that this implied that I should limit myself to Photoshop
Fortunately I’d treated my self to PS Elements as an early birthday prezzie, so I came home and played with it.
This is the ‘Cut-out’ filter.
And PostworkShop – this is ‘Outlines with Scanned Brush’.
Hope the pictures aren’t meant to be recognizable.
And Befunky – ‘Holgaart’ . I'm in there somewhere.
The book is called ‘How to Survive Modern Art’.
And Sumopaint – the ‘Kaleidoscope’ filter, which does a good job of showing off my Frida Kahlo eyebrows.
I don’t have purple hair, I was wearing a hat with purple flowers on it.
I may get round to GIMP, and some of the other programs I tried out in the great flower extravaganza, [just search for passion flower’ or ‘dahlia’ on my blog], if I decide the current 190 or so images aren’t enough.
Yes, I have spoken to Wensleydale in the interim, and looked after Babybel, been to the gym and done a few chores – although progress was helped by another bout of insomnia last night.
Then there are the other important decisions, like what sort of binding to use – currently thinking of a simple codex, but with flaps and holes and fold outs – and how I can wangle a triptych into a book format.
This was all supposed to be doable in the college time left over from thinking about topics for our research project and having tutorials on it.
Fat chance.
Suppose I ught to write a research proposal too. My preferred topic? Artists’ books …
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