2nd Round stamp Thumbnails-Digital

This is a touch up of the one above.I moved 44 cents and USA down and more center in block. Touched 

 up the old camera frame.

  These are Russian Constructivism designs by the way the shapes are, straight cutting, and the colors that I chose. I chose to take a russian woman and put her in the digital camera to reflect the older camera. 

Russian Constructivism

I liked these examples because it has straight edges yet it has a flow form to them.   I like how they merged pictures of people into art work itself. I love the straights with the change in style form and color. The one I like the most is the woman reading with two photos on either side and I love the first example because of the color and shapes intermingling with each other.

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These stamps are just a few that I really liked. Each photo has a different style and design format to them.









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Different commemorative stamp collage

There are different styles of stamps in this collage. I am going towards the portrait style in the Constructivism design.

One of my portraits

A friendly reminder that
winter is coming! This is one of my photo's that I took last winter. I shot this with a Canon. I was on Main St. in Binghamton. NY

Final corrected piece

Essay to semi final

I had a very difficult time with this digital project. Well to start I wrote an essay explaining
how I learned that this piece does not conform to the rule of thirds because they do not form and fit together.
Then I went to publish the essay in the comment and the blog refused to publish it and erased my entire essay without saving it so I am forced to rewrite the entire essay again.
  To begin, the first digital project I had a difficult time doing. We had to take was six words, which all had
different meanings and forms to them and merge them into one project. I tried to bring these words together by making emphasis bold and the biggest word to draw your eyes to the center of the page directly looking at emphasis because the word itself means to make something noticed instantly. I then took balance and conformed it into a bubble, overlaying emphasis. I tried to show how a bubble is in balance because it is a perfect circle. I then tried making the eye go to contrast next by dropping it on top, off center and boxing in con and italicizing trast and making it slighter thinner. With repetition, I made it too bold and to big. I believe that repetition should be smaller and lighter. I also beleive that in should stretch down and under emphasis and balance and go off the page at the bottom right of the corner. I tried to use the gradient grey scale with flow. I took the pen freeform tool and tried to draw a line with enough fluid coming onto the page and then going off again at the bottom. I beleive that if I take flow and possibly put more curve and change
the font to something more fluid it might make the liquid stand out more in the word. I finally took alignment and put it at the bottom on the right to try and accent the contrast angle and flow. I beleive if I took align and made it on top of trast and made alignment and contrast a little bigger. I would also take alignment and stretch the spaces between the letters.
          When doing this project I had a hard time trying to get the bubble slice and trying to get the bubble over the word emphasis. I choose to put emphasis in bigger bolder font in the center to make the eye go directly to the word. Emphasis means to get the point right then and there. I then put balance to the right off center flowing the eye to it. I then tried putting contrast up in the upper left alone trying to portray negative vs. positive space yet directly boxing con and italicizing trast giving it the tweek. I think contrast should be a few font sizes larger and to the left more. I would also stretch the words trast a few degrees. When doing repetitition I had a hard time converting this word into the piece and not having enough time being new do get the effect I wanted. I think if I lighten the letters and wrap the letters off the page down on the right hand side. I believe with these changes with improve this project extremely.
          In conclusion, these six words can be put together to conform to be a beautiful master piece. I don't think that this specific piece has the form or fit in the rule of thirds at all. I believe correcting these touches will help add flow and rthym to this piece.