Cyanotype

This blog post will be about cyanotype. Cyanotype is a photo printing process than gives off a cyan blue finish. this process was popular in the 20th century because of it's  simple and low cost to make a large scale copy of their work. The two chemicals that are used to make this effect is Ammonium iron(3) citrate and Potassium ferricyanide. This style is referred to as blueprints.

Cyanotype was first discovered by Sir John Herschel in 1842. He used this process mainly for reproducing note and diagrams as in blue prints. The first person to use this method in photography was Anna Atkins. She used this method to document ferns and other plant life for her seaweed collection.

Below is my own version of using cyanotype in photography. I used photoshop and my photo joining photo to make it. I think that this worked very well with this picture and i would use this again in another assignments.

Digital art self portrait

This is my self portrait that I did on Adobe Illustrator. This was the first part of my creature of Crosskeys self portrait. This is the original line drawing with no colour applied. To improve this drawing I could spend more time on the lines to join them together to make this drawing look good.

Below my line drawing self portrait is my tonal drawing version of my self portrait. I did this to get more detail in the picture by shading dark areas of the portrait to make have a real effect.

This is my first attempted of making a self portrait drawing on Adobe Illustrator. First I took a photo of my self on Photo Booth, then I pasted it on Illustrator and drew over the picture. Next I got a close up photo of an ant from the internet and put it next to my self portrait and drew the ants head over my head. Then I applied colour to the drawing (Red, Aqua, Gray, Light Gray and Dark Gray). I then applied darker colours to the picture to have shade in the drawing to make it have a real effect to it. To improve next time I will take more time in drawing the self portrait and applying colour to the drawing.

Photo joiner

This is my first attempted of making a photo joiner, I think the outcome is good for my first attempt. Next time I will take more pictures, close to the subject I could improve the look of the final image.

The inspiration for this work comes from the photo joiners created by David Hockney in the early 1980's

Hello my name is Ashleigh Cooper and Im a Fine Art student from Cwmbran. I study Fine Art at Coleg Gwent, Crosskeys campus. My main interests in fine art are based in Illustration, but I will recording all of the disciplines that I will be undertaking during my time here at Crosskeys. These will include; ceramic, Print, fine art as a general practise, sculpture, life drawing, 3D design, Computer animation, photography and of course illustration.