Surrealism at My Finest

Week 4: Surreal Landscape

I am really enjoying Photoshop at this point! However now I have trouble coming up with ideas for my pieces. These two pieces came from the idea that God is creating beauty all around us. In the first piece I used the blending techniques to create a brighter side and a darker side to give the feel of day to night. I duplicated the scroll image and flipped it to create the two sides of the scroll. I used the merge tool to combine all the layers so I was able to give the feel of old paper. In order to give the scroll an older feel I also used the burn tool. Originally I had the background white but it felt too bright. After making it black the contrast really made the piece pop out. In the second piece I replaced the color to give the stark difference between the sky and the ground. The footprints are my favorite part! With that layer I duplicated the image and warped it to fit the path. I used a lot of retouching because of the amount of excess stuff on the landscape that took away from the simple concept. I used different blending techniques like overlay and vivid light to enhance the lighting on the piece. I changed the hue and saturation of the hand to blend it more into the sky. Overall I felt this project was interesting to put together because of the surreal concept, and in order to fully understand it I looked at the amazing the paintings of Salvador Dali. His artwork really gave me ideas on how to incorporate the dream world with the real world.