Summer Send-Off

Summer's almost here, and my final Digital Art class is this week. Below, I have posted some more projects that I have been working on throughout the semester. I've learned a ton about digital art, and have enjoyed working with Photoshop and other design programs. Some of the pieces I have posted are just fun in-class exercises, while other works are a bit more involved. I especially enjoyed creating some the photo collage pieces because I could use elements from digital photographs that I have taken, and mesh them into a whole new digital art creation. I hope to continue to practice and hone my digital art skills throughout the summer. Enjoy the sampling of my semester work!

New Assignments

Here are some of the latest assignments I have been working on in my Digital Art Class. The two more traditional looking photographs below, are pictures I took while studying abroad in Rome, and then enhanced in Photoshop. I have also included a design of my signature. I signed my name on a white board, photographed it, and then stylized it in Photoshop and Inkscape.

The collage-type picture was for an assignment for Valentine's Day in which we were required to make "heart art." All the pictures used in this assignment were also taken in Rome, a place that certainly captured a piece of my heart! Many of the photos already had some sort of heart element in them, which I then exaggerated in Photoshop.

I hope you enjoy the small sampling of my beginning work!

Artists: David Hockney and Alexa Meade

I found both of these artists' works to be very intriguing. Artwork from these artists were posted on my Digital Art class blog and they caught my attention. Both of their works play interesting tricks on the eye.

Meade paints real people, so that they appear to be 2-D images on a flat surface. She often interacts, as an unpainted object, with her subjects, making it appear as though a painting has come to life and entered the viewer's world.




Hockney takes multiple photographs of a 3-D object from various distances and perspectives. He then re-pieces these photographs together to distort and essentially flatten out the subject. The viewer thus is able to view one image from a variety of viewpoints at one time.

Both artists play with 3-D and 2-D design to effectively engage the viewer.

Digital Artist: Jerry N. Uelsmann

I find this artist to be particularly interesting. His work is a neat combination of classic photography that is digitally altered, though still keeps the integrity of the original photograph intact.
Also, notice that he was composing these pieces of work as far back as the 1960's, using a variety of photo enlargers rather than the the modern computer technology that is so readily available today!

About Me: Julia M. Knoll

Hello, my name is Julia Knoll, and I am student at Aquinas College taking the course, "Digitally Based Art," as part of my Studio Art minor. I do not consider myself a "techie" by any means, and am excited to experiment with digitally based art and see what unique and interesting projects I come up with! Last semester, I studied abroad in Rome, Italy, and took literally thousands of photographs. I hope to be able to somehow incorporate these into my digital artwork. Thank you, and I hope you enjoy my creations as I explore this world of digital art throughout the semester!