Around My Neck

The concept of this composition is to show the different beauty and femininity in diverse cultures. How different tribal cultures expresses it through their jewelry.

By: Nina Faressa

B1000397

Art Visuals Finals (part 1)

After choosing my 3 pre-finalized designs, I used Adobe Photoshop CS5 to edit them.

My chosen art movement is Art Nouveau and Gustav Klimt is my inspired artist. With my 3 sketches I tried to incorporate the styles in Art Nouveau which mainly consist of flat, decorative patterns and intertwined organic forms of stems or flowers.

Theme: Intercultural at HELP

Name: Free as a Kite

1. After consulting with Mr. Deepak, I decided to add more cultures in the composition. So I added 2 more, Japanese and Indian. There is no distinctive kite type of these two cultures, so what I did was to create a pattern that represents both cultures as the look of the kites.
2. I used the software paint to outline the shapes of my kite.

3.I opened a new canvas, 16x20inches with 300 dpi. I then placed each kite on different layers and positioned them a certain way.

4. For the background I used a gradient effect to create the sky, and I texturized it with a stained glass effect.

5. Lastly I used the tool brush in shapes of grass.

Art Visuals Finals (part 2)

Theme: Intercultural at HELP

Name: Headdress

1. Firstly I started with a new canvas, 16x20 inches with 300 dpi. Then I placed my sketches

2. By using the Magic Eraser Tool, I deleted the unwanted areas of the sketch.

3. What it looks like after.

4. I did the same with the other sketch with the two faces and cropped them to have it separated. I placed the sketches by clicking 'Ctrl+t' and positioned them like so and started painting over the faces using the brush tool.

5. I used the Sponge Tool and set it under saturate to increase the level of saturation only on the head pieces.

6. For the background I used the Brush Tool #134 and created a border with the intention of having a patterned background in connection with the style of my inspired artist Gustav Klimt.

7. I contemplated with the overall look of it and after consulting with Mr. Deepak, he said the lines of the background leaves were too distinct and over powering to my subjects so I decided to change it.

8. Using the same technique, I opted for a more softer background and used the brush tool number #45. The blurryness and undefined lines of the leaves compliments my composition better.

9. Lastly I texturized my composition with a canvas effect.

Art Visuals Finals (part 3)

Theme: Intercultural at HELP

Name: Around my Neck

1. I start off with new, the canvas size of 16x20 inches with 300 dpi.

2. I placed my sketches on separate layers and positioned them.

3. I used the magic eraser tool to delete unwanted areas of the sketches.

4. Again using magic eraser tool to remove unwanted areas on my other sketch.

5. I repositioned the sketches by clicking "Ctrl + T"

6. To start painting the skin colour of my sketch, I opened a reference picture of my work and used the Eye Dropper Tool to get the right shade.

7. I added that colour to swatches so it will be easier for me to reuse it again.

8. To start colouring in the skin, I used the Quick Selection Tool to select just the neck area, so I am able to colour it in without interfering with the necklace.

9. This is how both sketches looks like after I have colored in the faces by using the brush tool with different opacity.

10. I texturized both sketches with a canvas effect.

11. For the background, I placed a picture i got from the internet.

12. Finally I texturized the picture with a canvas effect also.

Rough Sketch Work

My art movement is art Nouveau. The style of art nuoveau consist of organic forms, with natural forms and structures like flowers or plants and curved lines.

My artist of inspiration is Gustav Klimt. His subject in paintings are usually erotic images of women with very elaborated background.

Here I tried to a chinese inspired fabric pattern and have reddish orange as primary hue.

My attempt of an indian inspired fabric pattern, using combination of triads colors although the green looks blue in the picture.

Japanese inspired fabric patter, using the tones of pink for the cherry blossom.

An African inspired print.

This is my attempt to put together similar shapes of two cultures, Indian (top) and Japanese (bottom) of each cultures interpretation of waves.

This is a Batik motif of 3 different cultures. From left to right: Indonesian, Malaysian, African. With the similar subject as leaves and dots and how it's being interpreted in different cultures.

Here I tried to show how the veil is being worn differently by different cultures. With a typical mosque dome, and flower motif as the background.

Here are three kites in different cultures. From left to right: Chinese, Malaysian, Korean. The big and small circles resembles the sky and clouds.

This is my interpretation of hand jewelry in the culture of Chinese and Indian.

This is my interpretation of face and head jewelry in the different culture, using the motif that symbolizes the the culture of Indian and Japanese inadvertently.

Please leave comments or constructive criticism. I would much appreciate some feedback and suggestions. Thanks!