Kaleidoscope

I found my own tutorial for this one so it might not look like the others. Nevertheless, the original picture was melting mushrooms and I put a smaller copy in the middle.

Color Wheel

For this project I used a gradient background with other edits to that included. The spots were made with some variations to the paint tool (hue jitter, scattering). The nautical stars all contain a fractal design and these were edited with filters as well. Finally, I added shadows with motion blur as a final touch.

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I was leaning towards something from the art world on this one and so I went with the beloved Louvre. Mainly added an outer glow to the glass structure and divided the pond and sky with black and sepia, respectively. Diffuse glow also was added to the water. Overall, I went for a simple yet structured design.

The picture above is taken from the Crown Fountain at Millennium park in Chicago. The structure is composed of 2 glass brick structures containing LEDs which create the image of a human face that rises 50 feet high. The artist was to be chosen by means of a design competition and the decision was made to commission Jaume Plensa, who is from Barcelona. He's been creating public commissions in Europe and Asia since the 1980s, although this was the first one he's done in the U.S.

Plensa is also known to incorporate light sources into his work as well as including aspect of dualism, which is seen here with the addition of 2 structures. When asked about what he thinks about public projects, he responded, "It's not just a geographic area, but a place where people do something just by passing through or relaxing or eating. Public spaces are an expansion of your body, your home. They are another circle."

Custom Chair

I searched for abstract backgrounds to put on the chair. I used shadow on the panels to give an established look and also to make it look less rough around the edges. I had some hard times with the shadow...

9 X 9 Portrait

No particular theme I stuck to in this one. The borders I felt had a rough, kind of graffiti look.

Midterm

Went for the abstract approach