Original Art By Anneli Olander

Cliche Art

Rose Painting

This is an art piece I did for one of my friends who got married. It is actually my first completed painting on a canvas.

Medium:

Acrylic Paint

Juxtaposition Photoshop

The first piece with one appropriated image of a lion, and some pictures of myself. In this piece I am exploring some self expression and compairing myself to a lion. 

This is my revised version of my first piece; because I didn't like it. Someone mentioned that the pictures of me looked very feminine, and the picture of the lion looked masculine, so I decided to play around with gender a little. 

This piece is a self portrait sketch I did, with photos of me on top. I wanted to explore the difference between real life and drawings. I also wanted it to be a little unsettling to look at, so in order to enhance this I made the background a really bright pink. 

Medium:

Photoshop

Juxtaposition Photoshop (process)

I had a hard time figuring out exactly what I wanted to do, so I ended up playing around with images a lot.

For the first piece I was actually looking for a picture of a lion for something else (a project that I scrapped), and I ended up liking the image to much that I decided to make it the main focus of a piece. Then I took two different images of me (with wax and makeup on my face), and cut up my eyes and mouth in different ways. I used it as a way to compare myself to the lion in a way, sort of to explore some self expression.

I actually redid my first piece because I ended up not liking it. Instead I decided to do a piece on gender. For the photo on the left, I dressed up as a "boy," and for the picture on the right I dressed up as a "girl." I wanted it to be obvious that both pictures are me, but I am displayed in a very different way; but still me. I wanted this piece to be about how gender and sex doesn't really matter in terms of who someone is.

For the second Piece I took a drawing that I did of myself (featured in this blog), and then I put my mouth and eyes over the face. In this piece I am compairing myself as a drawing to myself in real life. I also made the background bright pink in order to create more contrast and disturbance in the eyes.

Self Portrait Process

In order to get the original photo of me how I wanted, I put on some makeup, then I took blue, purple, and white candles and melted the wax on my face. In the process of getting the wax off, I actually ripped out a few eyelashes, and burnt a little of my hair. The things we do for art am I right?

Anyways, once I got that picture, and another drawing I did of myself, I basically cut up my face in photoshop, then I put the pieces back together again. 

I wanted it to look a bit creepy, while also still being visually appealing. I was originally going to smooth out the edges on the lips, but I decided that I liked the slight imperfection of it. Most of it is pictures of my face, and the blue is a picture of a wave. I thought it would be interesting to use the wave, and make wave-esk shapes with it, while simultaneously not using the shape of the original wave.

Self Portrait (Photoshop)

A self portrait made with photoshop using a photograph and a drawing of me. 

Medium:

Photoshop