Catherine Quesnelle

        For this assignment the Black and White Logo I created in Abode Illustrator was edited in Adobe Photoshop to mimic a Graffiti Tag Brush. Essentially I turned the logo into a brush stroke through a series of techniques. Within this new brush the colors of blue and green where chosen to represent my logo. Keeping in mind that the logo originally created was supposed to represent us I decided to keep Blue and Green within the color scheme of my Tag Brush because the meaning behind those colors very well represent me.      To start off, using an 8.5 by 11 new canvas my four leaf clover logo was embedded and its size was adjusted using COMMAND T. Then the logo was whole was outlines using the  Polygonal Lasso tool. From there the layers and paths of the logo were  manipulated .  One   the  Tag Brush was to the desired look based on texture size and  placement  of the textures  the   image was sa...

 My thoughts on the following videos on photoshop tools for beginners: Glow Effect - Photoshop Tutorial | Glowing Effect   I thought this video was so interesting, I loved the end result of the image. I personally would've never of thought to create glowing antlers but I love that with photoshop you are giving that ability to create whatever you can imagine. I still can't quite figure out how adding a Gaussian Blur gave that glowing effect, so if I were to create something similar I know that would be an issue I would have to fix. However once I figured out how to add that blur I believe changing the colors of the blur would be easy because you would go under the properties section similar to Illustrator.  Double Exposure Effect - Photoshop Tutorial  In the video the artist combined two photos together, a woman's head and a mountain landscape. I thought it was very cool how the artist was able to manipulate the size of the canvas to fit the width of how they wanted t...

        Ice cream is by far my favorite food, I believe there is never a wrong time to have it. Depending on the flavor it could cover almost all of the food groups on the food pyramid, dairy, sugar, grain, and even fruit. Within my poster the two phrases which any ice cream lover would agree with are "Eat ice cream daily for happiness" and "never settle for just one scoop". When deciding on what I wanted my propaganda to be I was very conflicted. I wanted my poster to convey a cause however I also wanted my poster to represent me. I find WW2 very interesting so I started my search there. Although I find it very interesting I didn't;t feel a connection to the any of the inspirational propaganda posters I was looking at. Eventually I came to the realization that I liked the old times feel to the posters so I decided to look at propaganda posters from different decades. It is then I become every inspired by propaganda posters from the 1950's. Using the idea o...

Oftentimes I find it hard to give a fun fact about myself or choosing one word to describe myself. When prompted to create a logo to represent myself this was no different. I had a harder time determining what aspects of my life I would like my logo to display than creating the logo itself. Within my logo a four leaf clover with roots is depicted. This logo was carefully created to represent me. As cliche as it is being a quarter irish, four leaf clovers are very important in my family. As a young child when all the cousins would stay over our grandparents house in the summer, as a way to entertain us our grandfather would have us look for four leaf clovers. It would take nine grandchildren hours just to find one. Everyone would be on their hand and their knees including our grandparents looking for them. Over a decade later we had a huge scrapbook filled with four leaf clovers that we had found. As silly as it was, four leaf clovers brought me so much closer with my family and have pl...

Butterfly Calligram     When asked to write a letter to myself twenty years from now, I truly had no idea how I was going to start. As of right now I have no idea what I am going to do tomorrow let alone twenty years from now. However, once I started writing, I found it hard to stop. Writing this letter wasn't necessarily something I would've done on my own, however it was very necessary for me to do. Writing a letter to my future self really allowed me to reflect on the things I love about my life but also note the things I wish to change over the next twenty years. My letter reminded me that life isn't always going to be easy but, in the end, if you work hard and apprentice each day it will all pay off in the long run. Much like a butterfly, humans go through a metamorphosis too (not physically but mentally). As of right now I am in the chrysalis stage, waiting to find myself and become a butterfly. In twenty years,...

Illustrator Tutorials for Beginners Knife, Scissors and Eraser Tools - Adobe Illustrator CC for Beginners      Within this video the artist gave the viewer a recap of how to use the knife, scissors, and eraser tools in Adobe Illustrator. The artist highlighted that using the eraser tool you are not erasing pixels per se, but you are redrawing paths. I thought it was very interesting how you could use the scissors tool to manipulate the different parts of the letters such as rounding, making paths, and using it to clean up the marks that you made.  I also learned that the knife tool is not the most accurate method of editing text because it loosely follows the path that you make. Additionally, you can use keyboard shortcuts to help make more efficient art. In the video she used a group selection tool a shortcut on her computer which allows you to section one thing and group it together with another.      I believe that the hardest part of using all...

  When it came to completing this project, I definitely underestimated the extent to which it would entail. Professor Roundtree was not lying when she said this would take numerous hours. This project was based around my love for Flamingo’s. When I was younger my love for Flamingos came from their color(I thought it was the perfect color of pink-I even picked out my bedroom paint color to mirror the color of a flamingo!). However, as I have gotten older and have become more curious of the world around me, I’ve learned that Flamingos are naturally a cream color-You could probably imagine the disappointed look on my face as my Biology teacher gave us that fun fact. Flamingos get their pink hue from the food they eat. Their body metabolizes the pigments of the brine shrimp they consume, which in return turns their feathers pink. Now a few years later this fact fascinates me and is one of the main reasons I am studying Biology. When this project was announced and we were given creative...