Alanna's e-Communication Blog

Printing Processes Relief Printing It is a printing process where a person carves an image into a block of linoleum or wood. -Tone block with jet black film ink wash or Indian Ink wash. -Transfer drawing onto wood or linoleum block. -Cut image into block. -Roll ink over block. -Set thin piece of paper onto the block. -Apply gentle pressure with a baren to the block evenly. -Check the print, then pull up the piece of paper that now has the print copied onto it. Intaglio Printing This method has the artist carve the image onto a black ground of a metal plate, then use acid to deepen the ruts in the metal. -Prepare plate by polishing and cleaning it. -Apply a ground onto the plate -Smoke the plate on the side with the ground. -Scratch out image on the ground of the plate -Etch the plate by placing it into a form of acid for 15 minutes, which will deepen the scratches on the ground. -Pull out the plate and rinse it. -Put the plate back into the...

Panorama      Home, my home, to be exact. Many memories are involved with simply the idea of home. The familiar sights of the blue paint in my room, noises of family talking or dogs going in an out into the back yard, or the specific and unique scent every home has. I recognize the sound of each family member's steps as they walk around the house. The sight of quick movement when my rabbit is running around the living room. The noise of dogs wandering around and the clicking their nails against the wood or tile.      In my life, I travel to different family members. I go to my grandmother's house on my mother's side. Her home is always very clean and quiet. My grandmother's house on my father's side is very loud and busy with people. I also visit my cousins in Saint Louis. It is a nice drive there, and they are always friendly. Family has always been key while I was growing up.      There are the experiences of home. Experiences suc...

Pop Art When I started the design, I took several photos of the subject, Ryan Moore, and picked the one that looked the best with posing and content. I liked the comic style and sharp edges of Roy Lichtenstein, so I used them as an inspiration. I also took inspiration from Andy Warhol, with the use of bright colors and contrast. I used a mix of cool colors for the subject, such as blue, green, violet and indigo. The background used warmer colors like light red, yellow, and orange. I used the quick selection tool to get large portions filled in. This saved a lot of time. I changed the opacity of different layers occasionally. While I did the orange outline of the subject, I used the polygonal lasso tool to create that blocky outline, which I found to be a neat and subtle effect. 

The Nature Man      We were assigned to edit a photo of a man by adding on different scenery pictures to him. I, unfortunately, was gone a day, and basically had my life completely thrown off track. I haven't been able to enjoy the class or keep up with everybody since. By now, I'm just trying to keep getting stuff done, so I can get the grades in, since I'm struggling in this class. Basically, my entire completion of this project has been working in between other projects and coming in during lunch. I went in with an idea, and just went for it, improvising for the most part. I would've spent a longer time carefully planning out a beautiful image, but I couldn't do that with the time I had to work on it. Keep in mind, I have other classes that need me to make up work and continue to give out homework, so stress was already high. Still, I finished the project.      I definitely learned the kind of stress photoshop brings to people who aren't experts in i...

Photoshop Tutorials We were assigned to follow tutorials of photoshopping different photographs. It was difficult, but I eventually finished. We simply followed along the tutorials, learning the different aspects and tools of photoshop. I had some troubles along the way, but eventually finished. Once I thought I was finished, I realized my name wasn't on most of the images, so I went back and put my name and hour on. I learned that technology is not your friend, and photoshop is no excuse. It doesn't attempt to make things easier on you. Things will go wrong, and for some odd reason the software will completely change up the image and not let you undo it. It was not an easy or fun experience, to say the least. I kept up with deadlines, luckily, but wasn't enjoying this project whatsoever. If I could go back, I'd avoid any distractions and just get the work done with. However, I still got everything done on time, so keeping everything on time would be good to d...

For this project we were given around nine weeks to invent a company, design a product, create all the graphics and advertisements for it, complete a product website, and present it to our peers. Over the course of the nine weeks our group ran into troubles involving technical issues and the big rush to get everything done near the end. Personally, I’ve discovered that even if you think you’ll have time, you should get things done as soon as you get that time to work on it. Some feedback from our peers was mostly over our presentation. Generally people liked our product and our final presentation was well-received. We had to do a lot of edits and practice our presentation quite a bit in order to perfect it, however. Overall the work did add up and turn out nicely to create and present our product. During class we always divided the work and each worked individually with the review of our other group members to give us opinions and critique. Whenever we finished early we too...

Personality Test INFJ      My personality is INFJ, Introverted, iNtuitive, Feeling, Judging. For the introvert section I like to be alone in order to recharge. Being intuitive means I think of the future more than the present and am able to come up with new ideas. Feeling refers to how I make decisions based on feelings of myself and others over logic and fact. Judging means I try to plan and get details to sort everything out for the future. One person I share personality type with is Martin Van Buren, a previous American president.      This is very accurate to me. Personally I can't be around people for too long without getting stressed and tired. While this doesn't mean I can't communicate or I don't like people, this just means sometimes I just would prefer to be alone. One thing that isn't completely accurate is the feeling portion. I do rely on feelings in many decisions however I do take all the facts into consideration before making any c...