Angel of Music, Hide No Longer

This is old news, actually.

I've finished a completely new project since this one...but I've been lazy, I suppose, in updating about this one.

I'm quite, quite pleased with this one. But remember how the last one came out better on paper than on screen? Heh. The printer, for this project, decided it liked purple more than any other color. So the version anyone has seen at home is FAR too purple, and the version you all see now is FAR too not-purple so that the final print would be a nice medium.

If it gets to Fine Arts Festival or whatever, you can see the correct coloring there. It's a lovely rose, by the way. ;)

The prompt of this project was to create an object out of objects...much like the last project was a design out of letters. We had suggestions like a rasterbated image or inspired by nature or design shapes...whatever struck our fancy. One girl in my class was working on a BEAUTIFUL image of a woman in a dress of autumn leaves, far superior to the second example I gave you.

Originally, when the project was daunting us all, I wanted to just make an image, say I made it out of pixels, and be done with it. (hehe I'm so funny!) But one it hit me to use music symbols, I was on my way LONG before anyone else in my class. And honestly, all those music symbols are just from a font that types musical stuff. Which is MUCH EASIER than finding them all online...

In the original picture, the angel is surrounded by a horse and foliage. Neither of which were going to be accomplished through musical symbols...not in my lifetime, at least! Mr. Gehl had me ask another art teacher downstairs for her opinion and she suggested the treble clef "harp". LOVE IT, by the way. I eventually decided the classic cloudy-looking-angel's-heaven worked, so I had a LOT of fun with that. It's actually a double layer of the image, top layer "cut out" as seen in the example over here. Then, I used different levels of opacity to erase in places, giving me a look I just love. I wish I had spent a tad more time on it, though. Would have been splendid. Also worked with the sponge, a tool that saturates and desaturates the colors.

This was an interesting project. Once I figured out what I wanted to do, it was really more a matter of finding shapes that fit the lines on the original image. It was one of those projects I just relaxed and popped out...definately fun. Not exactly OH MY GOSH SO EXCITING but still, I enjoyed it, and I REALLY enjoy actually being happy with the turnout.

"Angel of Music" is from Phantom of the Opera, by Andrew Lloyd Weber