Quilt Pattern

For this piece, I first chose a blank quilt pattern that I thought would create a pleasing and eye catching product when I added my images to it. I then chose 6 digital pictures that I had taken and used a variety of tools to distort the images. After playing around with photoshop and adjusting the images, I experimented with putting images in certain places on the quilt pattern. I had to cut and crop the full images to fit perfectly within the shape guidelines. After a lot of messing around with the shapes and images, I came to what my final product looks like now. I really like how it turned out, there are so many different colors and shapes it makes the eye move around a lot. Most quilt patterns you look at have many different designs and naturally makes the eye scatter around the piece, so I felt I succeeded in doing that. My favorite part about my Quilt Pattern is the parallelograms. I really like how the multicolored disfigured lines guide the eyes to the four corners of the piece. My least favorite part about my quilt pattern would have to be the four big triangles pointing toward the middle of the page. I feel the image I used for those shapes isn't distorted enough and is too busy so it takes away from some of the other shapes. Overall, I feel that I did well on this piece.

Doing the quilt pattern helped me teach myself a lot of different things in photoshop. I learned how to distort and adjust images using tools like brightness, hue, contrast, distort, watercolor, and other adjustment tools. I also used the marquee tool quite a bit when cutting the images to the right shape and dragging them onto the quilt pattern. Since this was my first time doing a quilt pattern, I feel that if I were to do it again I would use images that all related to each other in someway whether it be color or meaning. I would also know how to use all the tools and where to find them so I would finish the piece more promptly. For next time, I need to focus on being neater, not rushing myself, and experiment more with different ideas.