Project 1 Warhol Reflection Journal

There was a pop culture phenomenon known as the pop art. If there is anyone who used to do pop art effectively, it would be Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol who lived from August 6, 1928 through February 22, 1987 was a famous American artist who had his artwork express a lot of feelings, celebrity culture, and was influenced the world. As a person like me, Andy Warhol's artwork is a must buy for any loving art enthusiasts out there because of the creativity and colorfulness of the artwork. Andy Warhol's artwork could remind people of piles of leaves that you walk past by on a morning in stroll that combine to form a beautiful coloring of the floor, or the countless times we drawn and colored on paper as a child, or the even patterns of the objects around us.  Andy Warhol's work is an influential and important part to modern society and is not unpleasant that much to begin with. Now with art like Andy Warhol, critics usually tend to critique other people's artwork, rate other people's artwork, make or spread news about other people's artwork, or just see other people's artwork while travelling to place to place. People's opinion can matter whether if it is an uninformed opinion in which the opinion is based on what people observe or from their background without any information given to them, or a informed opinion in which the person's opinion is based on the information given to them and from what they observe. Artwork like Andy Warhol have different taste, opinion, and biases that can influence the outcome of the person's opinion. A person's taste is what they prefer while a person's biases is what they think is the better than another thing when it is not entirely true. Also, an opinion is a collection of thoughts that are not facts that are based on observations, personal background, biases, and tastes. Andy Warhol used many techniques to display and express his artwork. The artwork had color of a lot of different hues and saturation mixed and matched each other creating a symmetrical art piece. Andy Warhol also had many different poses ranging from big, small, happy, sad, neutral, right side, left side, top, down, or middle. Andy Warhol worked on many paintings and portraits that are important to some people while not important to some other people. Portraits are important to some people because artists over the ages expressed emotions and creativity that captivate or give out towards the audience it is trying to present to. If I were to express my thoughts on creating a Warhol portrait of myself, I would say that there was interest and enjoyable in creating the Warhol portrait of myself. I created my Warhol portrait of myself by using the program Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. I first took a picture of myself by using the camera app on my computer. Once I took a picture of myself, I opened the photograph of myself in Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. I put the picture onto the background. I selected the magic tool to make the selection of myself. I used the options button on the Macintosh computer to make the selection only on myself. Next I desaturated the picture of myself and turned the color to black and white by clicking on filter, cutout, sliding the bars of levels, simplicity, and edge fidelity to create the image I wanted and clicked OK. I created a new file and dragged the photo of myself or selfie to the new file. Then I resized my selfie by using the move tool and duplicated the layers 3 times to get four selfies. After that I made 4 folders and used the Rectangular Tool to make a background for my pictures. I used the Rectangular Tool by holding and dragging the mouse from the selected point top left to the bottom right. I made 4 quadrants for the 4 selfies. I double clicked on the layer that I made from the rectangular tool which showed a window that allowed me to change the color which I did. I changed the color of the backgrounds for all the rest of the layers. Afterwords I put each selfies and each backgrounds I made from the Rectangular Tool into the 4 folders each. I saved before I did the other half of my Warhol project. I afterwords clicked on the layer of my selfie. I chose select and clicked load selection to select my only myself in the photograph. Next I made a new layer and put it in the folder that is linking the background and selfie. I clicked on that layer and used the paint bucket tool to color in the picture of myself by clicking on myself. I then clicked multiply to select on the layer tab to make the color on my face the selected color. I did this for the rest of the 3 sets of layers. Finally I saved the project. I find my myself using these techniques or skills when doing internships or experimenting in my own time.