My Portrait!

My family is most important to me so i took all of my favorite moment with my family and put them all together. Each Member of the family is from a different picture.

The Circle of Life

I used image overlay along with manipulation of color and pictures of myself to create this water reflection self portrait.

self #2

ill fly away one but till then ill just take pictures of things with wings

in the car

to know your self is a hard thing to accomplish,
reach forward and try

Self-portrait collage

This collage of images was created for our self portrait assignment. It represents the inner workings of my mind, my daily thoughts, my memories, my happiness.

Enter The Elephant

The above image is a collage that explains my sense of inner peace. My spiritual animal, the elephant is the most obvious and upfront part of me. The pier is a place where I go to find a piece of mind and the graffiti/light drawings are a form of entertainment that I find relaxing. I've also included myself wearing my favorite jacket. EnjoY$

natural art

Windows

This is a picture of a building I used to live by, I cropped out the windows and placed imeges of my life, freinds, family, artwork and things I enjoy behind the windows. Like you are looking into windows of my life.

Self Portrait Collage

Dip In Sip To Drip The Rip

As a photographer I decided to collage my images through multiple exposures. I've combined an image of my friend Troller, my girlfriend, Satu, and myself. These pictures combined describe a theme of friendship that I hold very close. The setting is a dark corner in Stearns, a deserted parking lot, and a car which my girlfriend and I have taken numerous roadtrips in. These settings fit nicely into this collage by giving a sample of my interest in photography.

Self Portrait-Mesa

For my self portrait I choose to use some of my favorite photographs I have taken and manipulate them . I started by changing the hue and saturation on a photo and it became an almost "Andy Warhol" inspired collage.I feel it represents me and some of the things I enjoy.

Music ,Water,Color, Art,Life.

Moving Forward Collage

I was interested in giving the impression of movement through the clouds, the dog walking away from the viewer, the hidden bicycle. I think my life is in constant movement (in everything from paying the bills to multiple relocations) and these images best represent my current state of mind. My dog has been my "shadow" since I adopted her 6 years ago and it seems appropriate that she is next to my shadow in my self portrait. I also wanted to demonstrate that not everything in life stays where it should. I made the different elements of the piece encroach on each other as things are apt to do.

What Lizzy's lizard witnessed

A little lizard, sitting in his favorite spot, witnessed an unusual occurance at the waterfall and thought to himself, "now there's something you don't see everyday."

Hidden in the Hills

Lizzy's world.
A snapshot of the world which means the most to me. The setting is that of the farm which I grew up on and everything that truly matters to me is connected to it. The hippie shack on the right has, my whole life, been known as Little Paradise, rightly named. I have spent the past 3 summers living within its serenity, surrounded by the land that is sacred to me. This is my hidden cove of paradise.

Fish in a Bottle

I choose an image of empty vases, and merged it with photos of my own. The fish are from a tropical tank and the hand is an ice sculptor.After getting the lighting on my back ground set, I used Photoshop and cropped the image of the fish, then placed them in the vase and changes the levels and hue and saturation. The hand i did the same to get the water in the small vase, then i used the magnetic lasso and magic wand tools to cut the hand out. Once everything is set in the vase and the lighting is good i used the overlay setting to make it feel like the fish and hand are really in bottles.

Candy Land?

This is an image of a candy train that Katelynn(in photo) and I made. She thought it would be cool to live in the candy train.

Portrait 4x #2

Crazy City

So, in this project, we were told to make a piece which expresses who we are, without using a picture of ourselves. I decided to use a city background because I often draw or paint city-scapes in my other artwork. The other objects in the city are things that I like or explain me. I decided to mainly use photos of people, but i also included some images. I overlapped the images using an opacity/erase technique so they would appear behind some buildings. I mostly changed the appearence of the different images by changing the layer blend. i also wanted some of my own art in the picture, so I added in the fire using the paint tools, and I added in a character I previously designed as graffiti on one of the buildings. Overall, I think you can get a good idea of what I like from this piece. Stay Classy.

#2

Empire 09 War is Money

matt collage

this is a collage of photos that was our second assignment for this class.

On Vacation...

I started with the background picture from my summer vacation in Greece. I added the skateboarder, birds, flags, and beverage in the skateboard's hand. Each on their own layer, I moved them around to create the final image.