Color Psychology: An Emotional Palette

MY FINAL.

Artist Statement

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." -Henry Ward Beecher

The appealing thing for me about art is the feeling of giving life to something that would otherwise be flat and lifeless. Art really is my journal as each separate creation is related to a different emotion, event or thought. This project that I created is based on color psychology. I wanted to take several portraits with various models, each being assigned a certain color, and therefore a certain emotion. I am very interested in psychology, as well as art, and thought that by combining the two an interesting project would be produced. I think most people are familiar with each color and the individual emotions they are gnerally assigned. Through my portraits I wanted to embody these emotions, while leaving room for further interpretation, as I beliefve individual perception is important when analyzing a piece of art. An interesting thought is that although my art is something so personal to me, everyone interprets things differently, so it may mean something entirely opposite to someone else. This is what keeps me interested in art, as no matter what the piece is, there will always be another perspective on it. I believe no two souls are alike, therefore every piece of art is unique, personal and forever intriguing.

8 Photo Project - Flashlight

This is the last part of my 8 photo project. This one was the photograph taken using only the light of a flashlight. I put the flashlight to their left, and took a long exposure shot. I made the girl in the background move her head during the exposure to add motion.

Final Halfway - Color Psychology

So my topic for my final photography project changed over the weekend. I decided to do a project based on color psychology. I'm going to do 6 portraits of people, each assigned their own color to portray a certain emotion. Right now I only have two edited: green and blue. Blue, normally associated with sadness, is portrayed in my project more as reflective or pensive. Green is peaceful. I'm considering cropping the green one more to match more with the blue photograph but I want to make sure they all stay vertical. I'll see how the others turn out. Hopefully those will be posted tomorrow!

8 Photo Project - Favorite Color

For this part of the project we were supposed to go on a walk until you find your favorite color. Thankfully I found mine pretty quickly as it was cold out! I thought that the red berries really stood out from the pure white of the snow and the basic browns of the nest and branches.

(My last photo - the flashlight one - has to be uploaded tomorrow at school because I can't do it from my computer!)

8 Photo Project - Back of your Head

Another part of our 8 Photo Project was to take a picture of the back of your head. I used the self-timer on my camera to get this shot. I brought in the mirror to add a focal point of my eye and make the picture less simplistic.

8 Photo Project - 5 Photos

This is the first part of my 8 Photo Project. We were supposed to take five different things that are similar and photograph them. I chose fruit and photographed five different kinds of them. I thought that the natural light coming in through the window illuminated the objects and made them more interesting.

Issue Photography

So this is my last photograph for my three photograph project. This is the one that was supposed to be about a political or social issue. I chose drunk driving. So I had a lot of issues with developing. The developer was bad the day I used it, and all the paper that I had to use was exposed on the bottom. But, I actually kind of like how it turned out. I think that it kind of resembles a holga print, and I think the quality of it enhances the negativity behind drunk driving.

Television Show Photography

This is my photograph that is supposed to resemble a photographic advertisement for a television show. The idea that I had was that the show would be a comedy, like a sitcom, focusing on one main character. This, obviously, is the girl in the foreground. I imagined that the show is about a new girl who moves into town. The other two subjects in the background are two people she meets in this new place. I tried to replicate the style of T.V. photography by using strong foreground and background, clearly defining the main and sub characters.

Fashion Photography

This is my photograph representing photographic advertisement targeted towards teenagers. I figured since it is winter, it would be a good idea to try and advertise winter clothing, and there's no place better to do this than outside! So even though it was freezing out, I found a model and a snowy background to take the picture in. I thought that by taking the picture at a tilted angle, the photo would add a little interest, setting itself apart from stereotypical advertisements.