Craft: Unlock background layer of of picture and fill with a color. Desaturate photo and set to multiply. Create a middle layer (photo on top background on bottom) and fill your second color here. Various sections can be selected using polygon lasso. Your best friend for this project is the eye dropper. The eye dropper will help you keep your colors consistent which will then help keep your style consistent. Polygon lasso is good for big sections and paintbrush is good for small details.
Composition: draw attention to things in the photo that are meant to be paid attention to for the sake of your story. Use the background color to help fade into the background things that may be distracting from your story line. A good balance of whites, blacks and colors is the key to making your pieces effective but interesting at the same time. Using this technique you are left with kind of a pop art type looking thing. It's kind of nifty.
Concept: We chose blue and yellow because they are colors that are on a Marines uniform. Also, blue is a sad color and yellow is a happy color. The girls situation is a biter sweet one so it make sense to have both colors. The palate we used was a slate blue and and a canary/ golden yellow. These colors do not take away from the message of the photo but still help highlight important info in the photos. Also, the original photos were mostly blues and yellows anyway. I would have really like to have had red in the photos to since the original photos had a lot of red in them as well and i think they would have been prettier if they had red in them. However, that wasn't part of the assignment. Moral of the story: making art with only two colors was not as bad as i thought it was going to be...but it's definitely not my cup of tea.
