This free study was interesting, not entirely challenging though. Going from chromatic, to muted to prismatic colors made it more enjoyable to work with. If all 3 compositions were chromatic grey this would’ve immediately become boring. The idea of changing the colors and being able to make my own chopped up pictures made it a lot more fun. I feel like all of my compostions are visible and the pictures make sense. The addition of the colors trying to paint the right parts to have it work well together was challenging at first, but became easier as it carried over to the other compositions.

This project I found really tedious and frustrating, not because of the actual difficulty, but because of the focus on high/low key and focal point. When it came to actually painting this it became a whole new level of frustration because these paints, after you mix them, decide to change colors after they dry on the page. That drives me insane. I still think it came out pretty well, I just learned to deal with the color change. In this uploaded picture for some reason it decided to rotate, so it SHOULD be seen rotated 90degrees clockwise, so the small collage should be in the top right corner.

This is my cut-up picture of Ming. In comparison to the original vs. the one done in photoshop, this one has more of a low-key look to it in my opinion and in comparison to the hand made one. After my painting was pretty broad, I had to make the attempt to make this either high or low-key. Understandably this has some light spots, but without them there would be not differential in shades and everything would’ve just looked dark and confusing.

These are the two images out of about 5 that I took the other day walking around City Tech. I won’t lie I didn’t really understand why we had to do it, but never the less I still did something. The lighting in each image shows a high-key amount of light or a low-key amount.