Peanut

Here are the three parts to my triptych…

I thought my triptych turned out very well. It’s just how I wanted it to be. Jen Noon’s presentation inspired me to do something like her triptych- I thought it looked really cool. I was either thinking of making the text boxes go along with a quote or Bible verse. I decided to choose my favorite quote– which influenced me to make this triptych. It’s Maya Angelou’s quote and it goes like this, “Instead of looking for the right person, be the right person.” I really like what it says, because it’s so true. I took the underlining meaning of the quote and turned it into what I thought that meant–in my own triptych. I took a few pictures of a bunch of kids at lunch at school and then I took some pictures of my feet and the sidewalk. The left triptych panel is a picture of kids at school. I decided to darken it alot and use the fresco filter–making it really dark and shady. Then I added the white text boxes with the words, “I went looking for the right person.” The darkness is supposed to show how everyone is in their own little world and no one is being the right person. This then goes into the next panel that says, “I found no one…” I used the same filter on this panel–darked it and used the fresco filter. It’s a picture of me looking at me feet. Sort of saying–I give up–there’s no “right people” out there. So I have to dig deep and find the courage to become the right person (the person who I am looking for). This goes into the right panel, which is a picture of the same school kids, but this time the world looks brighter and more clear. Thus the words, “So, I became the right person.” On this panel I increased the saturation a lot–so the greens, pinks, and yellows jump off the pages. I also lightened the areas around the text boxes, so the words jump out more. I’m very happy with my triptych and was so surprised to hear it was bought at the gallery.

I really like this picture because it means a lot to me. This is a picture of my great grandma’s house in Ajo, where she grew up. She died a few years ago, but at her funeral I took a picture of her hands. (she was known for her beautiful hands) She also loved sunflowers, so I put a sunflower in between her hands. I believe she is in heaven now watching over us, so I took her hands and placed them abover her house in the clouds. I’m going to give this to my grandma for Christmas, I think she’ll love it. I used a posterize filter on this picture. I really like this filter, it brings out all the small details into focus. I also increased the coloring of the sky and the plants and trees around the house. I made the opacity a very small amount for her hands, so it’s barely visible. So the viewer focuses on the house, but then their eyes sort of drift toward the clouds–because of the sunflower’s yellow coloring. I also like the lines on the house, it looks interesting and the angle is sort of mesmerizing. There’s a lot to look at, so some of it might be a distraction. The only thing I would change is maybe crop the bottom of the picture, because I feel the sidewalk ending is a distraction in the lower right hand corner. Otherwise I really like it.

I also really like this picture. I used the same filter on all of these pictures: posterize. The filter really brings out the details of this picture. The small shack becomes very clear. I also intensified the colors a lot, so the small blue shack starts to become the main focus of the picture. This picture has a lot of simplicity. The background is simple: a mountain with cactus and brush–very dull colors, thus making the shack the focus. The only thing I would change about this picture is crop the car because it’s distracting and brings focus away from the shack. I really like this picture because of how simple it is–a small, blue shack in the middle of nowhere. =]

This picture is very intersting to me. It’s a bunch of stamps from a small town post office. I also used the posterize filter on this picture– it helped to bring out the details and sharpen the focus. The focus of this picture are the Arizona stamps at the center, bottom. I just thought this picture was so cool because of all the different stamps a post office has–it’s very interesting. The only thing I don’t like about this picture is the shine or reflection off of the stamps–it’s a bit distracting. This picture also uses a lot of lines, which makes it look interesting and deeeeeeeeeeep.