"Our Murder"
To make this picture I started with a blank canvas specified to the specific page size requirement. Then I used the paint can and painted the background black. This image consists of many different layers. Layers are key. First, I started with a paint brush, in the biggest size I could make it, and then I painted a squiggly line in the bottom left corner. Then, I went to Filter, chose the motion blur button, and chose radical, and changed the specific area to make the curve and lines. Then I wanted a bright colour, so red, and did the exact same thing but did not make the lines so big and spaced out. Next, I made another white line over the circular white layer and used Filter, Wind, and gave it a weird affect to create some sort of fog affect. Then, there was an empty space, so I made a red circle and added a blue line in the middle using paintbrush, and paint can. Then, I went to filter, motion blur again, and used the linear choice. I changed the length and area of the lines to make the circle end up the way it did. I looked at this picture and said to myself that I thought it looked like a reflection in water of the moon, and there was a weird ripple in the water. So, lastly, I added another grey line, Filter, Motion Blur, and blurred the line to make it look like a weird cloud covering the moon.
This picture represents a different time. Everything is disrupted and looks off. The moon is red, and hurt, and there is a secret in the air. This picture is like a murder scene, everything is there, but the little details are always missed. The lines across the moon look like they don't belong, but they really do. There is an eery-ness in the air, or in this case, in the picture, or the reflection on the water. The moon is hiding behind something, but what? This picture is a reflection of someone, we all have secrets and hide behind a lie. What's yours? We change our reflection of ourselves in many ways.
"The Balance"
I created this picture by starting with a canvas size that was "9x11." Then I used the paint can and painted the background black. Then I used a pink gradient and drew a line to make the bigger shaped triangle. Next, I added another layer and added another gradient in a smaller triangle on the right side of the picture. This gradient was blue and it faded into a lighter blue into the right side, and I screened it over the original picture. After adding another layer, I used a yellow/orange gradient in the form of a triangle on the left side of the picture, and dodged it over everything. ( The smaller triangle. ) Next, I used the white paint brush and drew out squiggly lines in the bottom right side of the picture. Then, I used Filter, Motion Blur, Radical, and the squiggly lines turned into a weird circle. This created a light side to the picture, and then the other side I did the exact same thing but with a black paint, and didn't make the lines so big. I think this balanced out the picture well. There is the light side, and dark side to the photo, and each side has a circle that brings you into each side. This could be metaphorical for that our lives are all about choices. There are the choices that bring us into the dark side, and the other choices that can bring us into the light side. It is just a matter of which side you want to be on, and who you want to be. Though, there is the balance of good and evil in this world, and they balance each other out. There can't be one without the other.
- Gorecki
