Family Photos and photos of me when I was younger

When looking through the photos to find one of myslef, my mother and I came across a lot of hers from high school and other past memories. Besides the fact that it’s really cool to see images of the past maybe remember a time you once forgot about, it was also unique to see the different types of photos. One my mom showed me of her friends and her in highschool, the differencies between the photo was the size and though it was in color it had a brown tint. But the biggest differance was the the clothing and hair. It is really interesting to see a different time througout a photo, because all you have is what’s in the photo to base it of off. One can tell the pictures were taken from older cameras, for the most part it has a brown film over and some have a boarder, making me think they were taken by a polaroid.

Looking through my photos thier were a lot of myself, many when I was a baby I was eating. This one photo I was a bit older but I still have the same personality.  The photos is not just of me but my sister and mom, all people who have influenced me then and now, it’s also taken around Chr-
istmas which is my favorite time of year. This is because everyone seems joyful, so happy, present in the picture. I’m also wearing a cute outfit so even from a young age I’ve enjoyed fashion. In the picture if we were to take another one this year everyone would look pretty similar, family photose are always hard to get right. The one aspect on my face I really see is me smiling and my dimples, that even now is visible.

Star Books

For our self portrait unit, one of the projects is star books.  Though their seems to be only pictures on them, most of the projects were focused around one subject either science, the stars, portraits. Similar to ours, it's about our everyday life the things that make us, us. Pictures of a dog, clothes, shoes... anything that influences you, affects you daily. The books we made are about ten pictures and look similar to these:

Carolyn Trant

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Self Portraits

A self portrait in a simple definition is a portrait of an artist produced by that artist, and that will be the next unit. Self portraits have been around for a long time, though it wasn't until the Early Renissancce that one can make out the artist in the picture. Jan Van Eyck "of 1433 may well be the earliest known panel self-portrait." Self portraiture became increasingly popular during the renaissance due to more wealth and interest in being the individual subject.


Here are some beautiful self portraits I found:

Blog Name "bigbigtruck"

Alex

Blog name "Rhapsody-in-white"

Lidia Vives

Lidia Vives

Vandyke Prints

I made my first Vandyke print this past week, and I really love it. Not even the fact it turned out well but I love the transformation from a photo taken in current time and simply changed within an hour to look like an old postcard. These alternative processes are so easy and completely change the photo. This process was "invented in 1842 by the English astronomer, Sir John Herschel. Both processes utilize the action of light on ferric salts and their chemistry is very similar. The Vandyke process gets its name from its similarity in color to the deep brown pigment used by the Flemish painter Van Dyck."

Here are some images of Vandyke prints I really like:

Tim Mispagel

Matt Marrash

Lidija Ivanek

Cyanotypes

Cyanotypes are of my favorite type of prints to do, there so easy and fun! Within in a day you can make a print come to life, while using a cool color scheme. One of the cyanotypes I've done that I took in the summer look like it was taken in the exact opposite season due to how it turned out.  The clouds are enhanced looking like a winter storm. Though I'm not the best painter I like the hands on experience you have with a photo from start to finish, even getting to paint what you want to show up.

Here are some cyanotypes that I really like:

Michael Wittig 

By Michael Wittig

By Two Kitties (blog)

Japanese Stab Binding Books

 Throughout the last two classes we have learned different techniques and styles of making a Japanese Stab Binding Book. This being Japanese 4 hole binding, Noble binging, and Tortoise- Shell Binding. Though the earliest known book binding was “ Butterfly Binding” in China in 1000 C.E. “Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from an ordered stack of paper sheets that are folded together into sections or sometimes left as a stack of individual sheets.” The stack is bound together along one edge by threads that can make numerous different desighns as wells as a colorful cover, typically. 

Here are some examples:

By Ffion

By Unknown

By Iveta Krajcirova

Final Portfolio