Week Finals

Craft

First of all, I stated by creating layers that I was going to use for painting color. I used the eye dropper tool to pick the colors for a certain part of the photo and used my premade brushes to paint it. I started with the black background and used my sponge brush to cover the entire layer, covering all the pixels of the photo, then I used my various brush brushes to paint the bills in the back to the front then the thumb last. I picked out the most general colors.

Concept

The concept is really just a person holding money, but it's more about the brushwork, as it is intended to look painted by paintbrush. Also, a lot of the detail on the bills was generalized to just blotches of color. Eventhough the fine detail is gone, the viewer can still see that it is money.

Composition

In the original photo, the angle of all the bills create lines of force that guide the eye to them. In the painted version, the blotchy colors break up that force and the contrast in color between the thumb and the bills attract the eye to the thumb first.