Evaluation

Overall I am very pleased with the outcome of my remixing. I enjoyed using my own work in the process - it made me think about ways I could perhaps manipulate and combine images of my hand drawn or painted artworks on the computer in future to, really, create whole new artworks in a whole new medium. It was also very interesting being able to combine my painting with one of Rembrandt's; it made me think of the old masters who let their apprentices complete parts of their commissioned paintings. The remix process also opened my mind to the modern possibilities of artist collaboration.

Rembrandt Self Portrait c. 1663

This is the scanned image I used for my background in Photoshop. It is actually a close up of the face in Rembrandt's, 'Self-portrait With Maulstick, Palette and Brushes' c. 1663

A Photograph of My Original Imitations of a Rembrandt!

I cropped this photograph of my own work and copy and pasted it onto the scanned image of the original Rembrandt painting ( I did this twice in order to isolate each painting within the photograph.) The painting on the right was in the fist layer and covered in part by the painting on the left.

Remix Presentation

For the Remix assignment I layered two of my own paintings - imitations of a Rembrandt self portrait - onto a scanned image of an original Rembrandt. I played around with the scale of my own paintings (all this in Photoshop) in order to make them match the proportions of the original Rembrandt. I then used the eraser and brush tools to blend the images together (Which took a very long time i might add!) I also altered the contrast and brightness of the original images in order that the colours might match better when the three were placed together. So there we have it, a Rembrandt and Sacha collaborative masterpiece - well perhaps not quite.

FILM LOOP : Seagulls

While story boarding a short film about seagulls has its limitations, the one thing we could count on was the effectiveness of hot chips from 'The Flying Squid' in drawing a crowd of the quarrelsome creatures. our aim was to capture their comical behavior when presented with limited chips and numerous opposition, but also ended up getting some quite beautiful footage of the birds in flight. I think we all selected the more comedic action of the birds for our final cut, as this seemed the most entertaining of the footage.

GROUP PROJECT: film loop (our storyboard)