David Hockney is an English artist that almost invented his own style of art. Hockney dabbles in almost anything artistic, photography, painting, stage designer, etc. Hockney was born in Bradford, England on July 9, 1937. He was raised under parents who found education to be really important and after finishing primary school, Hockney attended the Royal College of art and stayed there for 3 years. After teaching at another college, he began to sell some of his work. The most famous of Hockney's work is his "joiners". A joiner is when you take a picture and put other pictures either in the background or foreground giving the photograph many layers to create one bigger photograph.
To create these photographs I had to first use a new blank file that was 11"x14". I dragged a picture onto the canvas and scaled it to fit the way I wanted it to. Once the background is set up, I dragged more and more layers on to the background in the appropriate area. Once the pictures are where I want them I merge all the layers together and save it as a JPEG file.
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Mandala to me means there are pictures in a circular pattern which create a brand new fresh image. In order to create one of these, you must first find a template. There's a magic wand tool and once activated, you click on one of the slices of the template. Than shift the highlighted piece onto the picture you want to make into a mandala. Hover the piece over the part of the image you want to copy than hit command (or cntrl) C to copy than paste the copied piece into the template. Once the template is in place, duplicate the layer and flip horizontal. The mirrored image than needs to be adjusted to line up with the original piece. Once the pieces are lined up, command-click the layers and merge them. After the merge, duplicate the the new layer and do the same process until theres one perfect circle. The background is the only thing that needs to be worked on. Click on the background layer and click on layer-layer style and play around with that. I like the creativity that I recently found with this project. The most difficult part was trying to line up the image so that it was perfect.
In my own words, I think a tessellation is a picture that is repeated in various ways to create a new image. In order to create this photo I started by choosing a picture and picked a part of the frame that I thought would be cool to manipulate. I had to crop the picture down to the area I want to work on to a 1:1 square and than move it onto a template. The template either has 4, 2, or 1 inch squares. Once I have the cropped picture onto the template, I copy the layer and drag the picture into a slot until the guidelines are purple in photoshop. After every thing is lined up, go to edit, than transform, than flip horizontal or vertical. Once the first whole section is done(unless the four inch template), click on the layers on the right that created the first square and go to layer, than merge layers. Since the layers are merge, duplicate the existing layer and finish the row. Once the row is done, merge the layers again and repeat the same process until all the rows are complete. After all that is done, play around with the colors until it looks dope. I like the freedom with this project and be able to turn something into something that looks cooler and more vivd.
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