Research and Reference

All art on the street that’s not graffiti

Artist- Banksy

Art movement- Street art

-Street art is any art develop in public spaces.

-It usually refers to unsanctioned art, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives.
Typically, the term street art or the more specific post-graffiti is used to distinguish contemporary public-space artwork from territorial graffiti, vandalism, and corporate art.
Street art can be a powerful platform for reaching the public, and frequent themes include adbusting, subvertising and other culture jamming, the abolishment of private property and reclaiming the streets.

-It include traditional graffiti artwork, stencil graffiti, sticker art, wheatpasting, street poster art and so forth.

-Stree artists do not aspire to change the definition of an artwork, but rather to question the existing environment with its own language.
Some street artists use "smart vandalism" as a way to raise awareness of social and political issues

-Banksy is a graffiti artist who artwork has appeared throughout London and other locations around the world. Despite this he carefully manages to keep his real name form the mainstream media.

-He uses his original street art form, often in combination with a distinctive stenciling technique, to promote alternative aspects of politics from those promoted by the mainstream media.

The elements of design

-Line marks are made by paint and bush and value of lines are solid.

-Shape are easily defined.

-Direction can be either way, horizontal or vertical.

-Size of the subject is usually big.

-Texture is smooth

-Color used as saturated colors.

-High value contrast between colors.

The principles of design

-is usually balance.

-Gradation is static, from light to dark

-Repetition is less found in street art.

-Contrast in direction horizontally.

-Harmony

-Dominance of size to add interest

Reference:
Photo source http://www.banksy.co.uk
http://artradarjournal.com/2010/01/21/what-is-street-art-vandalism-graffiti-or-public-art-part-i/
www.streetartutopia.com/?p=720

Blog Photo - The abstract shape effect

Blog Photo - The abstract shape effect

Left - PS photo

Right - Original photo

This is how i create my blog photo with abstract shape effect:

01. Select a photo of yourself

02. Unlock the current layer, by clicking on the lock, after select "Okay"

03. Create a new layer by clicking on the "New layer" icon

04. Now select the "Rectangular Marguee Tool"

05. Start creating random shapes, anywhere you want

p/s. All shapes except the first one, should be made by holding the shift key

06. After you create all the random shapes, you click on the color palette, and select "dark grey"

07. Select the "Paint Bucket Tool"

08. Now simply click on one of the shapres, and they will all be filled in, with the selected color.

09. Change the blending mode to: "Overlay"

10. Now right click on "Layer 1" and select "Blending options"

11. Select "Drop Shadow", Increase opacity to 100%, Increase distance to 7px, and click OK

12. Now you done with the first layer, what you do next is create a another layer and repeat the same steps as you create the first layer.

Layer 2 DONE

Layer 3 DONE

Move to the last step

01. Hold CTRL & click on the small square next to "Layer3"

02. Hold CTRL & the SHIFT key, and click on the boxes next to "Layer1 & Layer2"

03. Select the original layer "Layer 0" , Press "CTRL & J"

p/s. the new layer has created.

04. Now select the "Layer 0" again

05. Click on the color pallete and select the color you want for background

P/s. as i have selected "Black" as my background

06. Go to Edit > Fill, Select "Foreground Color" , and OK

BOOM ya. you have your own abstract shape effect's photo too.

Gordonism 101

Introduction

Hey peeps, welcome to my blog. Here's the brief information about me.

Name- Tok Ghee Tiong (Gordon)

Id Number- B1002910

Course- Bachelor of psychology (Hons)

Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/gordontok

Interests

Throughout my life, there are many activities that i have enjoyed. But there are few things that i choose to tell you guys about. These are the activities that i have enjoyed enormously are:

-Musics-

-Basketball-

-Dancing-

-Poster Design-

Aspiration

At the Help University College, I plan on majoring in psychology so that I can build a solid foundation for my final goal: child or teenager psychology. What sparked my interest in psychology has been my mother, who suffered from psychological disorder during the time my parents divorced. It was hard to define the kind of disorder my parent suffered due to the lack of psychology institutions here in Malaysia. Over time, my sisters and I brought our parent to church and Pastors was very kind to use their therapy and relaxation techniques to heal my mother. I was so amazed that at how these people were able to cure my mother without stethoscopes, pills, or syringes, but rather their kind words.

I realised that our country was very in need of psychologist. I wish to help more people like my parent. So it was how I build and develop this field of interest. For the first lecture in my psychology class, I knew I made a right decision for my future