Week 2 - The Text Effect

The workshop today definitely opened my eyes to many amazing examples of how beautiful text art can really be. I absolutely loved examples that were shown by Barbara Kruger and really admired the effects that she created through her compositions. Her outrageous bold statements on dull photographic backgrounds are really outrageous and extravagant. I really admire bold artwork as this is what I usually compose, however for the theme and ideas that I am leaning more towards, I don’t think my text art will be as striking as such. But, I could be wrong.

I was introduced to Illustrator today. It seemed immensely difficult at first. It was only last week that I used a Mac for the very first time. I still wasn’t sure of its many wonderful functions so familiarizing myself with a program with a computer that I hadn’t really comprehended was a little challenging! But it was very fun!

It was today when I started to brainstorm and was able to compose a list of some themes that may be of interest to me. For the moment I am still leaning very strongly towards Melbourne.
But here is what I came up with:



I think this class has so far been a big eye-opener to me. It’s allowed me to perceive and appreciate art in so many different forms. Lovin’ it so far!

P.S: For those who have read my Week 1 blog – I have decided to keep my detox woes outside of my artwork so I will not be going ahead with the Health and Wellbeing theme as that would have been a little boring!