Quickmasking

So I have experimented with the quick masking tool putting my polynesian design on top of an image

photoshop tasks

So this will be my very final print out design for my book cover to be displayed on the chapter books shelf in the Creative arts library. I choose reggae colours because they are my favourite colours

Colour using photoshop 2

So this was my similar idea of making my final book covers and also experimenting using photoshop to make a digital and handmade version

Colouring via Photoshop

So I have borrowed this image online to try out with colouring on photoshop.

Reggae colour tattoo patterns

The image without the black background really suited the work and the brightness of the reggae work clearly shows my work. I am thinking of making a A5 booklet with this book cover design.

Photoshop work

So heres my finished photoshop work that I have done by the way. The reggae colours really suited the pattern which is related to cultures. So the areas that are not working is white spots and that really ruined my work. The black background wasnt suited as well because its not in a square frame.

Expirement with photoshop

I have used photoshop to expirement colouring the Polynesian designs. I quickmasked some areas of the design and started colouring some areas. I choose to use 3 colours that are actually the traffic lights colours. I will try and create a A5 size book cover to suit a small book located in the Creative arts library.

My book cover displays at the Creative arts library

 

So I have displayed my first book cover on a shelf in the creative arts library to check if its more suitable. It was hard to find a thin book at an exact size of my A4 landscape cover design. I will also be planning to do a different size cover either and A3 or A5 size that fits on a book nicely. 

Art exhibitions at Pataka Art plus museum

So these Art exhibitions were displayed at Pataka Art + Museum. Some displays has food packets displayed and many people accidentally stepped onto the packets who thought to be a mat for the floor. The light works were my best ones for the Pataka Art plus Museum galleries.

Standups in Wellington

These are my room mates that I hangout with during my Tautai tertiary road trip. This is while we wait for others to finish their shoppings in a old fashion store.

Pacific arts at Te Papa Museum

So these works were displayed at the store room of Te Papa museum. Alot of then were displayed and not much of the other artworks were displayed because it was locked on a shelf.

Wellington walks

Walking all over Wellington was a tiring day and even thought it was sunny during the day and windy cold during the night. We walked all over Wellington city to checkout all galleries that are private and public. Te papa museum was my favourite visits because I can get to look at various pacific artworks and the tapas and fabric designs was my most favourite art I have ever seen.

Back view of Te Papa museum

This is the back view of Te Papa museum where we went through the back door to head down to the back store room to view pacific artworks. It has been stored in the room for a very long time since Tautai has planned this road trip for Art tertiary students.

Te Papa museum visits (Wellington trip)

We were in a huge lift going up to visit the Pacific island works inside the back store room viewing many artworks done my various pacific islanders. This was part of me and Pascals Tautai road as we got chosen to represent Manukau Institute plus the 2 others from year 3. It also involves other students from other Tertiary art schools such as AUT, Whitecliffe, Elam and Unitec.

Circular polynesian drawings and shadings

This is the design that I've done in drawing skills class and this one is my favourite one. I am thinking of doing this design for my A4 size book cover. The red ink colour really stands out more since it was a bright colour. The shading bits are my most favourite one and I will definitely be choosing this ideas for my A4 size landscape booklet.

Circular polynesian designs in a A5 booket

This design really reminds me of a mandala looking design. As part of my drawing skills class, I was doing a whole page circular polynesian designs and I was planning to do something different to this one for my book cover final projects.

Polynesian drawing on paper

So I was focusing on drawing my design on a hard piece of paper. I use A1 size paper then folded them up in A4 grids to create a A4 landscape size book cover. I've then started off using a black fine point marker before coloring some areas with an ink pen.

Polynesian colouring clip

This is a few second video to show that I have been adding some bright colours onto my polynesian designs. This work was part of Drawing skills and techniques 2 class and I would borrow some ideas to add to my book cover design for the library books or an exercise book for a student or a family member

Selfie pic in front of a greenlight projector @ Victoria university

So we visited the Adam gallery over at Victoria university in Wellington for the Tautai trip and tried to experience myself taking a selfie in front of a projector. There were 3 different colours which was red, blue and orange.

Tautai Tertairy road trip timetables

So Pascal and I has been visiting all these places as mentioned on the images and it was  great visiting all galleries to view some works to look for ideas for our semester one projects.

Tautai lunch break

It was freezing cold in the middle of our trip on our way to Wellington. We had a lunch break at Mt Ruapehu and resting our butts from sitting down for over 4 hours in the small bus. Once we got off the bus, most of us didnt realise it was freezing cold outside since it was very hot in the bus. It was a great experience visiting all galleries but even though it was tiring walking around the cities viewing every artists work. Most of the artists I've seen are my most favourite ones.

Tautai visits to Pataka Art + Museum in Porirua

So the whole Tautai crew went to Porirua for lunch and discovered another museum found near the shopping centres. We went to visit the Pataka museum to check out some art works relating to what I will be doing. Even though there was some interesting art exhibition that I have never seen in my whole entire life and i find that its very good.

Tautai visit to Te Papa Museum Wellington

So me, Pascal and the rest of the Art students has visited Te Papa museum back room to view many pasifika art works that involves weaving, wood carving and Tapa designs. So I was chosen to attend the Tautai trip to experience all the art works displayed at each galleries in the Wellington region.

Ipad cover research 3

I find this design very interesting because the primary colours brightens up the polynesian design. I might try to do something like this for a book cover design experimenting with different colours

Ipad cover research 2

I've found this image online and I really like this polynesian design. So I am planning to do a 3 colour polynesian design on a piece of card paper. There was an unknown artist who does this work and it was found on Pinterest website.

MIT Title

I am planning to do my own style MIT logo to make a title on my book cover and adding my polynesian patterns for the background. I've used photoshop and illustrator to edit this design and it will also be used for my screenprinting project.

Iphone cover research

I've done another research on polynesian phone covers. I like how they carve patterns on wooden covers. I chose this image to give me some patterns ideas to draw on my final book cover project.

Process

This is the process of starting off hand drawing my own style pasifika design patterns. It will either be an A4 or A5 size booklet to fit on any thin books in the library.

Field trip to Auckland Art Gallery

On Friday 26th May 2016, half the class attended another field trip to Auckland Art Gallery and Elam Building B to view Rebecca Hobbs Art space back in the years completing a course. We have viewed alot of Art works in every Art spaces in the Gallery. It was a wet morning walking all the way to the other side of town near The university of Auckland faculties

chapter book cover research

So my final cover will be very similar to one of these covers as part of my final book cover project.

Ipad research

The website that I've researched was from Zazzle.com.. I couldnt find any artist who does these type of work which they remain anonymous. I've also search through pinterest and Zazzle was the owner of the page.

Polynesian IPad cover design

I've also done another research on looking for tribal ideas on different sorts of covers such as ipad covers, chapter books, small page books etc.

Book cover research

I have researched some polynesian book covers through pinterest and I am planning to do something similar to this design. The patterns will also give me some ideas to draw it in my own way.

Recipe: Polynesian book cover design (Final one)

Ingredients:

• Any colour A4 hard or light piece of paper
• Couple of thin black permanent marker
• Print out polynesian design
• Lightbox (Located in MIT screenprinting studio)

Method:

• Grab any colour A3 or A4 piece of paper to start on the design
• Get a black permanent marker to start on the polynesian drawings
• Either trace or Freehand your own drawings
• Trace your polynesian printouts on a lightbox
• Scan and print through a glossy paper ready for making books 

St Pauls Gallery field trip AUT City campus

As part of photographic class, we have attended a field trip to Visit St Pauls Gallery in AUT to view Rebecca Hobbs art exhibitions plus 1 other artist work. I have also met 1 other student who is currently studying Year 2 Bachelor of Visual arts and I have known him from attending the Tautai road trip to Wellington. I've been inside his class to view their studio spaces and what the class looks like. Viewing the lecturers exhibition was a good opportunity to watch the videos of the bushes and fields where Rebecca Hobbs is lifting up a green 3d foam work with 1 other.

Recipe: POLYNESIAN TSHIRT DESIGN

RECIPE:

Serves 1

Ingredients:

• Adobe Illustrator
• Fine point black marker
• Black ink pen
• Blank white paper
• Photo scanner
• Imac computer
• Screen
• Water blaster
• Plain color t shirts, long sleeves, jumpers etc

Method:

1.  Create your own polynesian design in a typography, quotes or shaped style on a blank white paper using only black pen and felt (Finely pointed)

1. Scan your design onto a computer
2. Open up the image on Adobe Illustrator
3. Edit the photo using the image trace tool under the windows tab to darken the image
4. Export the photo into JPEG and start printing it out
5. Once image is printed in A3 or A4, Find a coated screen ready to expose before printing onto any plain clothing's after water blasting the screen and blow drying it

Final presentation

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jPoAkoCZlwwjRWqFKapWL4c9IWLUBWtOwnpD0TUrcEM/edit#slide=id.p

Presentation #1

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19aoujpYMRZuh-OVQ2E7vb_ZiglDN8k6kPtBd2vWt31g/edit#slide=id.g12a3b3f6cb_0_15

Presentation screenshot

I started to do my presentation about tshirt design using google power point. Ive also done another presentation doing something different. The reason is because another person might be doing the same thing as me

Artist research #3

 I chose to do a research about tshirt design. I researched an artist and designer name Veronica Leon who does Graphic design using Illustration and Mural painting. The 2 images below are her work examples of tshirt design and printing. Why I really like about Veronica is because I like her fabric designs especially her mural painting.

Artist research #2

I found an Artist and Designer online who does magazine cover designs and there were different ways of making covers. The Designer "Courtney Kan" has cut out her design on a card and paste it on top of any colored paper.

Quickmask

I have used photo shop to create this quick masked photo. I borrowed my chosen animal image online and used photo shop to edit my picture. I press the q on the keyboard for the red background to show up and the Zebra will easily be shown.

Waiata

TUNE to Don’t worry be happy

(An old song with different lyrics for our class theme song)  (just a thought)

by Joseph Tareis

Verse 1

Here’s a song that everyone knows

But these lyrics aren’t quite on the nose
but don't worry be happy
we made them up right here in our class

Photographic technologies is where it’s at

Don't worry, be happy
(Don't worry, be happy now)

Chorus
do wop dobi wop dobidobi wopwop dobido  (Don’t worry)
wop wop dobi do  (Be happy)

Dobi dobi wop wop (Don’t worry be happy now)

do wop dobi wop dobidobi wopwop dobido  (Don’t worry)
wop wop dobi do  (Be happy)

Dobi dobi wop wop (Don’t worry be happy now)

Verse 2

(rap)

We’re keeping this short, cause our time is tight

Working day, night and weekends just to get it all right

Makes you wonder if whats ya doin is worth this crap

maybe taking wicked mean selfies is where it’s at

we gonna be making our time here all about the biz

just to prove to our bloody selves that we won’t fizz

with Manaakitanga, Application and all our skills

we gonna blow this learning outcome with plenty of frills

Chorus

do wop dobi wop dobidobi wopwop dobido  (Don’t worry)
wop wop dobi do  (Be happy)

Dobi dobi wop wop (Don’t worry be happy now)

do wop dobi wop dobidobi wopwop dobido  (Don’t worry)
wop wop dobi do  (Be happy)

Dobi dobi wop wop (Don’t worry be happy now)

Artist Research

Ashton Kutcher Is Steve Jobs in JOBS Poster Debut; MACHETE KILLS Poster “Introduces” Charlie Sheen

It’s a reunion of sorts for the two leads of CBS’ Two and a Half Men today as a pair of new posters have hit the web.  Ashton Kutcher takes on the life of innovator Steve Jobs later this summer in the biopic Jobs, and now Open Road Films has debuted the stylish first poster for the film.  The one-sheet harkens back to the old color scheme of Apple, as a bearded Kutcher makes up the entirety of the poster.  The first trailer for the film was a bit all over the place and Kutcher still seems like an odd casting choice, but I’m interested to see how audiences react to the film.  Personally, I have much higher hopes for Aaron Sorkin’s own Steve Jobs biopic over at Sony.  Jobs opens on August 16th.
Additionally, a new character poster for Robert Rodriguez’s sequel Machete Kills has been unveiled, this time introducing Carols Estevez as “The President.”  Carlos Estevez is, of course, Charlie Sheen’s real name, but it appears that Rodriguez is having some fun with the marketing of the upcoming grindhouse pic.  The film’s massive cast also includes Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, Lady Gaga, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Mel Gibson.  Machete Kills opens on October 4th.  Hit the jump to check out both posters.

Here’s the official synopsis for Jobs:

It only takes one person to start a revolution.
The extraordinary story of Steve Jobs, the original innovator and ground-breaking entrepreneur who let nothing stand in the way of greatness.  The film tells the epic and turbulent story of Jobs as he blazed a trail that changed technology — and the world – forever.

Ihumatao Stonefields

Captured the land using a DSL Camera

Project plannings via Lynda.com

I view many videos about the creative careers and projects via Lynda.com. I was interested in Screen printing, Typography, In design, Photoshop, Graphic design and wet media.

Aperture