Samuel's Blog

  I felt I should also share this image to go along with the progression of my art, after high school I quit art for over a year until one day I chose to pick it back up and find myself once again. After I chose to continue making are this was the third image I ever created showing even more how much I have progressed since my time in high school 

  For this assignment, I created a book with a sequence and one with a series, combing both visual storytelling and digital editing techniques. I started by planning out the concept and deciding what kind of mood and message i wanted to portray for each image. The first book "within my heart" was my series, I chose to focus on what makes me who I believe I am. I enjoy the idea of dividing the picture between the old me, and what I am now. For the editing process I chose to use affinity, being that it was free and I proffered working on this at home. I worked with both found images and personal images. some of which being photos of myself in a clearer photo, and others of me and my best friend. I used photos I found to represent more of myself and some of my insecurities.  I also experimented with texture overlays, creating this dirty and filtered look on some of the pieces, I found this worked well to desaturate some of the photos and blend better with the photo ID I used for...

  while working on the photo book I found myself loving this photo the most, it shows me and my best friend growing up together, the photo to the left is me in grade 7 and the photo on the right is him in grade 7. the photo in the top right is one of my favorite memories of a time I dressed up in an old plague doctor costume as we rode our bikes around town at 2 am. Finally the photo in the top left is him and I as adults, taken last year for Christmas this is one of the most amazing memories I have.

 This past week I had done some of my own research on the 4 hole Japanese bookbinding style. I found out that the 4 hole Japanese bookbinding is actually a subtype of fukuro-toji or in other words "pouch binding", this is where the books sheets are folded along the fore-edge and sewn along the open holes near the spine.  The 4 hole bookbinding was particularly popular and important in the east Asia culture, working best with their style of paper, and was ideal for the single sheets used at that time. Though we are using a very basic style of bookbinding I found more examples that the binding in itself can be an artwork.  We can see that we can get many interesting shapes and styles built within the bindings and will function the same way as a standard binding would. 

 Though I forgot to upload my videos I am doing so now, I actually had lots of fun with these. It's not my favorite medium for my art I do still find it fascinating. I was not able to upload the videos to blogger so to make my life easier I posted it to youtube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHAgT5o0bss here is the link to my video 

as of this past week I have been finding myself singing more to myself once again. Often when I get busy I forget how releasing it is to properly sing, not for anyone else but just simply for myself. right now my go to song is called "become the warm jets" by Current Joys. Now that the year is slowly coming to a close I find myself slowly becoming more of myself once again. removing the mask of the perfect student I hate playing so much.  For the most recent assignment I rented a rebel T6 taking RAW photos to them add to my book. I've found many items and locations in my room that I believe clearly represent who I am and what I love. Come Monday I will start editing the TIFF files inside photoshop as it was demonstrated in class. I feel most of the photos I create that day will be goofy, however I also feel I will try and fix my proportions the way I wish they were, to show my exterior and the flaws I see in myself.  Due to how close we are now to the end of this semester...