Diptychs

This image is a piece using the style of Stephanie Rubiano. I attempted to create a piece in the style of work by her. I got an old photograph of me and a family member, which I then opened up in photoshop and started to edit this image in a way of this photographers style. The first thing I decided to do was use the paintbrush tool to go around the outside of the clothing, I chose the colors by choosing a similar colour to the clothing but slightly darker so the outline is visible, doing this made particular parts of the image stand out as well as giving it a cartoon like effect and made it look unusual and not like a typical photograph. I also used the gradient tool, using the rainbow pattern filling the whole image and lowering the opacity to fade it so it gives it the effect it should as well as making sure the image behind is still visible. To make the image less dull I used the eraser tool to bring back in the faces in the image which I feel has a big effect because otherwise everything would be behind the gradient and look dull. I think that using photoshop with this image has helped me to create an image in the style of Stephanie Rubiano and I have used techniques to create an interesting image and give a different effect than the original image.

I then used this same image to create a piece inspired by Jennifer Loeber. I used this image and an image of my scarf for this piece because the scarf was worn the last time I had seen this family member, which although it isn't an obvious relevance it works because in some way it relates. I enjoyed creating these pieces of work and feel that I have created a successful piece of working inspired by Jennifer Loeber. I have used the image edited in photoshop, using different tools and techniques to edit the image how I have, then used another image relevant in an un-obvious way to create this diptych.