My Logo

While thinking about creating my logo I saw a bag with a red star on it and i thought i would some how incorparate that as my logo. While letting creativity just do it's thing I ended up with an orange sun. While still having red star in the back of my head, I decide to name my company after it. A little twist on art perspective.

National Geographic a la Lizzy

The most difficult aspect of this composition was transferring the deer from another image using the magnetic lasso. It was incredibly challenging and satisfying to finally achieve its completion

The Cosmic fish

Again, I mainly used the warp tool to manipulate my type and a handmade gradient for the background. The idea is simply to provoke one's curiousity about just how vast the cosmos might be and how microscopic we become in its exploration

My Covers

Using National Geographic as an inspiration i created covers using my own images . My goal was to try to make this look like a real magazine cover and ad .What do you think?

this is one of my magazine cover. this is my own artwork..no one elses. the magazine name was just for educational purposes. please dont sue me.

The Single Flame of Lizzy

I used mainly the warp tool to manipulate my type, used a handmade gradient for the background, and used gaussian blur to create the soft glow.When I created this piece, I was thinking about how much more powerful a source of light can seem when surrounded by such vast darkness. In the bright sunshine, the beauty and power of a single flame would be diminished if not entirely lost. The greater the darkness, the more vivid is the smallest light.

My tree

Using Y's & I's I created a yin & yang tree. It is composed of many layers of text ,rotated and transformed to create the image you see.

This assignment we tried to portray a typical magazine cover and magazine advertisement. This is for educational purposes.

National Geographic Magazine Cover Layout

I chose this magazine because I love the nature photos this magazine publishes. Using some photo's I have taken in my personal advaentures I recreated a cover of the magazine. In the middle I created an add for a theoretical Yosemite Vacations company.

Magazine Advertisment

this is my ad. have fun reading it.

RollingSTONE EMULATION

YOHAN if he were ever on ROLLING stone.
My Photographs!

Using more of my images , i wanted this to look like the hottest part of a fire. I used multiple layers and layer adjustments to create the image.

I chose a photograph of my own and applied it to a cover I made in Photoshop. I changed the hue and saturation and transformed the image. It is made up of many layers of type and text overlayed on each other to create the image you see.

CD Design

This CD assigment allowed me to take some really stiking pictures of flowers and use them to make the covers and the CD.

This CD cover I made using a few of my own images taken last fall.

absolut vermont

I created the piece in photoshop by using an existing absolut bottle image and rendering a bottle over it by using boxes and circles, bending the pieces, using the gradient tool and then knocking back the opacity. The text was created on separate layers and warped to wrap around the bottle. I kept the medalion and reflection from the original. The mountain and snowboarder are pictures I took and pieced behind the rendered bottle.

self portrait

This is my self portrait. I mixed art work I've done and my photography useing blending and changing the hues.

CD

Cd For Da POPS

Raw Earth

The DVD cover was made by using the paintbrush tool and the paint bucket, thats it. I did it ontop of a new layer going over the image to make the person cartoon-like while keeping the background. The CD was similarly done as well.

origami cd

TLC CD Album Cover

I recreated the TLC album Crazy Sexy Cool to bring back the 90's hit release because waterfalls is my favorite song, and I had a picture to perfectly compliment the album.

nina simone cd

Logo Design

The Jaw Breakers

This is a CD and CD cover that Imade in Photoshop. I made up a band named The Jaw Breakers, and created a colorful layout plan for their CD sales. By useing lighting effects and highlights the images became 3-D.

The Microscopic Curve of our Cosmos

cd cover

This is my fictional band Gnarly Brown's CD and cover.

Logo ideas from the professionals

Check this website for a great range of logo design
http://wolda.org/

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

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.