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Geraldine Georges

I created my own Geraldine Georges image by using an image of my little brother and cutting parts out and using colourful ovals and different textured paint brushes.

Geraldine Georges

These pieces were both created by Geraldine Georges, her speciality is combining the art of photography and illustration together to create these amazing images.

The first image is of women that are merged together to create a creative effect of making it look like the body of the women fits in to create her face also. The first thing that came into my mind when i looked at this image is the way women are stereotyped and that they don't really have the authority to speak out for themselves, this can be represented by the way the bottom halves of their mouthes are cut out. Woman are seen to be in the kitchen and aren't really able to express themselves which is represented by the way parts of her face is cut out and her eyes are pitch black which make her look like she has no soul or liveliness to her life. Also it shows parts of the woman's body with no clothes on which could represent women as being sex symbols and their physical image being more important than their personalities and mind.

The top right image is very similar to the previous image but this one has more colour included. Again when i looked at this image the stereotype of women straight away came into my head from the image of the make up and flowers. This image could represent how women concentrate on making themselves look better by applying make up and colourful essentials to their faces to change their appearance. The flowers may indicate that women are soft and gentle human beings but again showing that they are inferior from the way their mouthes are partly cut out which represents them not being able to speak out for themselves.

The artist has used a fine liner pen to draw around the images to make it stand out and combine the illustration with the digital photography so you get the best of both worlds.

I think that artist decided to use this technique to show her opinion on women through a more effective and creative way which would touch and have a connection with the audience.

The third image is of a dull street which looks like the photograph was captures many years ago. The artist has combined the art of illustration and photography to make it look like the two worlds have merges together creating a realistic but creative image. The thing that came to mind when i looked at this piece was humour brought into a serious scene. The street looks dull and everything on it is in black and grey which looks boring and lifeless. The animated people and objects like the balloon stand and lamp posts are still dull coloured but make it look more humorous and interesting. It is also quite surreal how the animated figures are around the human figures and everything is going on normal like its an everyday thing.

I think the artist chose to use hand drawn illustration with photography to create a surreal picture and to make it look interesting and original. I admire the use of humour in this piece as the woman holding the dog leash that seems to be slightly longer than usual, also the man walking casually along the rope between the two lamp posts.

Norm Magnusso

These are photographs of the work of Norm Magnusso. The project is called decorating Nature and as you can see that is exactly what he has done. He has used paint to decorate leaves, twigs, pine cones etc and has made them colourful and creative. He uses his environment and surroundings as his canvas for all of his work.

I created my own Norm Magnusso pieces by using leaves and using acrylic paint to make them colourful and make some sort of pattern on them. I then put them into bushes to make it look like they was already there and create a natural but un-natural look.

Jan Von Holleben

This is the work of Jan Von Holleben. He was born in 1977 and was raised in the southern German country side. At the age of 13 he was influenced by his fathers photographic work and then decided to follow him by starting to experiment with photographic magic tricks to then develop his own technique.

The images above are of his work which he has created a creative and amazing effect. In the first image he has used materials like a blue sheet, socks and plants to create the scene of a boy scuba diving down and finding treasure. The boy is actually lying on his side and Jan Von Holleben has taken the photograph from above which makes it look like actual under water scenery.

The image below that is of children riding bicycles. Again all the children are on the floor and the bikes also where he has then taken the photograph from above making it look like they 

are actually riding bikes.

This is my own Jan Von Holleben creation. In a group we decided to create a bed time dream theme and then pretending to sleep in it. First we laid down two large black sheets to represent the dark night sky, we then cut out stars and 'z's which represents us snoring. We then laid out instruments to represent the bed time nursery rhyme 'the cat and the fiddle'. We then made a bed out of more sheets and used big pieces of wool to make the pillows, we then all got under the covers and pretended to sleep which then a photograph was taken to create the effect of a dream.

Markus Kison

Markus Kison is a digital art based photographer based in berlin. He uses the technique of cutting certain parts out of photographs and makes them appear like they are 3D and coming out of the actual image. He changes the digital layers into physical layers.

Above are two of his pieces, the first one he has created an effect that makes it look like the man in the image is actually walking on top of it. He has created a shadow effect also behind the man by cutting out the outline of him. The image below that is of two people having a conversation, again he has made it look like the people are physical and coming out of the image.

Typography Poster

This is a typography poster I created of a rap artist called Nas. I used parts of his lyrics in the background to create an interesting typography effect.