Photoshop Project 1
(composite of two or more photos)

This project will be to compose an image from several pictures.  The goal will be to layer some very different settings and to make a seamless transition from one perceived area to another. In viewing the image, the viewer should get a sense that these very different areas are actually very closely related, and maybe even made of the same "stuff". 

We tend to believe in what we see or feel.

So, the "stage" is set, a movie theater, a concrete sidewalk, it's all man made, here and solid, right?    

But what if it were just temporary in nature, an illusion , ready to become more "permanent in nature" again ? 

 Would you look at it differently?

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Technical Notes:

A variety of techniques (copy, paste, burn, smudge, free transform, opacity values) will be used to produce the image. 
Additional pictures will be used as a background (and negative space) that will ultimately change the perspective of what is already presented. 

Notice that the picture of the theater and the granite rock mountain are both at a 3/4 angle to create synergy between the two environments.

Original Image for Post Card 1

Bee Postcard project  Card 1                                                  

         

Original illustrated bee 

This is the original bee image

The first card was to have bee going to the desert ( near a health spa- see  above card and  photo below for the inspiration for the card).   

  

This image inspired a desert and mountain scene

After creating the first rough card, a palm tree was substituted for the fountain, and a house (at a distance away) was added in the lower right corner. 
These additions allowed for more skillful use of tools and added more depth and dimension.

Postcard image goes here

"Bee", Working to Create a Better World

Bee is part of a very successful environmentally conscious bee hive.  Interestingly enough, their primary business is “the re-pollination of urban and semi urban areas”.   

As progressive bees of action, the hive has incorporated their operation, created an Organic Honey brand (that caters to the diabetic community), and provide informational seminars (on "The damage of cell phone radiation to people’s heads", and "How the radiation from cell phone towers  are destroying bee hives all around the world by disrupting bee communication and their sense of direction").

Bee’s job is to travel around the world looking for “alternative green harvesting areas” as well as finding partner bee hives that would like to join their association and create a better world for all to live in. 

 

He travels with his “public relations team” that documents his efforts by creating postcards and sending them to member hives.

Project 2: Invertebrates; Bee in Flight

Bee in Flight  (Invertebrates);

Project One:  Shapes:

Original Cut and Paste             Digitally Produced Copy

 

Sample Shapes w/o cutout

This is the Shapes project.  The  last step of cutting out the arrow from the blue is the last step needed to complete the project.  Of course, it would have been easy to just add circles, but I would not learn the "cut out" step.

Start:
9/01/10  ~Shapes project is creatively underway, sample drafts show promise.

               ~Invertebrates  project will highlight "bees".
              

   Invertebrate project will highlight "bees"