Mixed Media-Polaroid Collage

The strongest aspect of my work would be how I layered the polaroid images over the original image of myself. This would be my strongest aspect because I placed a polaroid over an important part of the background image. The polaroids highlight the rope wrapped around me, the triangle on my forehead, and my hand holding the flag pole. An aspect of my work that could be improved on is creating the background image. You can tell that there is an "X" but with the colors that I chose, you can't really see them work together well to represent Scotland's flag.

The easiest part of this art activity would have been drawing the feathers. I love to draw, so that is why that part was easy for me. The most difficult part of this art activity would be adding shadows to the polaroids. I was able to put shadows onto the polaroids before I cut the image that wasn't inside the polaroids. After I cut the image, the shadows weren't how I wanted them, so I had to redo them again. 

I demonstrated the objective for this project by spreading out the polaroids, adding the shadows to the polaroids, and creating a background using different ideas and drawings of my own creation. First, I found a photo that was taken during one of my color guard competitions this year, and placed blank polaroids in various directions on top of the image. Then I overlapped all the polaroids by using the magic wand tool so that the polaroids would look like they are spread out on a flat surface. I then combined all the polaroids, and erased the image that wasn't present in the polaroids. I added shadows to the polaroids, and moved the finished product to where I wanted it. Sense the theme for the color guard show is Highland Games, I designed a background that looked like the Scottish flag. I then added an image of a feather, where I warped them, and gave them a different style to the drawing. If I could do this art activity again I would choose a photo of my family to work with. I don't take many photos by myself, so I would have preferred a photo with others including myself to work with.