Artist: Tom Chambers

Tom Chambers was born and raised on a farm in the Amish country of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Tom completed a B.F.A. in 1985 from Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, Florida with an emphasis in graphic design and strong interest in photography. For many years Tom has worked as a graphic designer, including the design of packaging and magazines. Since 1998 Tom has devoted himself to photomontage

for sharing the intriguing unspoken stories which

reflect his view of the world and elicit feelings in the viewer.

DREAMING IN REVERSE

caging the songbird

unfair melody

ENTROPIC KINGDOM

the offering

winged migration

Artist: Bill Viola

Bill Viola (born January 25, 1951 in the United States) is a contemporary video artist. He is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media. His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and aspects of consciousness.

Artists -Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528 was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since. His well-known works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, Knight, Death, and theDevil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation. His watercolours mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium.

Young Hare, 1502, Watercolour and bodycolour.

The earliest painted Self-Portrait (1493) by Albrecht Dürer, oil, originally on vellum Louvre,Paris

Photoshop

Because we are experimenting with self portraits this term we have had to use photoshop a lot. I never really use photoshop so this is a new experience for me to learn all the different tools when experimenting with my self portraits.

First we just started of learning the basics which was inserting a photo and then changing the opacity, hue/saturation, brightness and more.

Here are my very first two photoshopped images which we used the images from the media file and learnt how to layer images over the top. I also experimented with fonts.