Connections

Lee, Nikki. Connections. 10 July 2016. iPhone. Pixlr. 1280px X 857px

This piece is to showcase the connection of life between two living organisms, human and plant. The plant is the thorny limb of a bougainvillea tree resting on the entire length of my arm. The pink blooms end at subjects face. She leans into it to smell its scent. The bleaching of the image allowed creating a focal point on the connection between the two subjects. A lot of  detail was lost in the bleaching but the shadows on the turned leaves and the crevices of my face and neck remained. Intensifying the shadows created a perfect outline, enough for the viewer to see what is going on and who is in the image.

Layers of Purity

Lee, Nikki. Layers of Purity. 4 July 2016. Pixlr. 1982px X 2691px.

This portrait is the first piece where I began to go outside of my own image collection. There are tons of free stock images to experiment. When I came across this image, the big innocent eyes drew me in and I just wanted to play around with the features without ruining its original look. Layers of Purity is simply what the image is. A pure face with layers of duplicates of the same pure face. The background is a sort of Andy Warhol filter going on where each image is a different color. In the Pixlr app, you can turn the intensity of the filter up or down. As I turned it down to see how the single image compares to the strength of the four images, I liked how the four images became a part of the background with a central focus on the foreground. In the end, it worked out and allowed me to create a cool title for the piece.