Criterion A Portraiture Technology

In this unit we are combining Art and IT to make a mixed media portrait of ourselves, and the best thing is that you can do anything. The first day we started this unit we went outside and took pictures of ourselves and then edited it using a wide range of sources. The websites or programs we could use were :

-picnik.com

-flauntr.com

-splashup.com

-photofunia.com

-photoshop

After we've edited our photos we are supposed to outline them on a blank sheet of paper and design it any way we want using many different materials, items and colors.

The main aim of this unit is to express yourself the way you never expressed before, which is through a mixed media portrait. By doing this unit you can also learn about yourself. You can discover unknown hobbies and things you like you didn't know before. This unit helps us develop and expand our creativeness and imagination.

About Portraits:

Portraits are a type of art where someone must be in the picture and the face is and expression is predominant. Portraits can express the feeling, personality and the mood. Portraits can be done in any media: paintings, snapshots, sculptures and in any other art form. People drew portraits for a very long time and is still a popular choice in art today. Self-portrait is another type of portrait where the artist draws him or herself in the mirror or something else.

There were some troubles when trying to look at our pictures we took. The thumbnail of the pictures didn't match the actual picture file, and by that i couldn't find my portrait so i had to take a picture at home.


Here is the original photo and the altered photo

In art class we watched a video about a artist named Vik Muniz from Brazil, and his artworks. He usually makes his art with unique materials rather than the typical pencil and paint. He uses strings, yarns, sugar, chocolate, cotton fluffs and real clouds. For the works he did with yarn, he calls it pictures of thread, and he named some of them on how much yarn he used.





The product has to express yourself. It has to show what kind of person you are. For example: A student named Chung Hwan who did this unit last year, does not like his photo taken, so he completely covered his face so you cant even say its a face. Another girl drew numbers dropping from her hair, which tells us she loved numbers and math. You can express yourself in any way you want, through a collage, using different media (pencil, colored pencils, paint etc.), mag and newspaper cut-outs, beads and jewelry, rice and beans etc. The thing is to be creative as possible, but still expressing yourself.

This unit is linked with Human Ingenuity of the AOIs because we are creating something. Human Ingenuity is quite an important AOI because we should be using our mentality in order to create things that will be beneficial towards us and represent who we are.

Design Specifications:

-Multimedia
-Technology (to alter photo)
-Photo of yourself, no one else
-Express self

-Easy to trace
-Simple, not extremely detailed

Citations:
-Sudra,Anna. Art lecture. Internation School of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 3 Sep 2009.

-"Portrait." Wikipedia. 14 Sep 2009. Wikimedia Foundation Inc., Web. 15 Sep 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait.

-Wordsmith, . "About Portrait Photography." eHow. Demand Media, Web. 15 Sep 2009. .