The assignment is to remix a minimalist travel poster based on a movie by introducing the visual elements of a Jackson Pollock painting.  Looking through the previous assignments, I thought Saad’s stunning Gotham City Poster would mash up decently with some paint splatters.

I ended up using actual paint splatters from Pollock.  They are not from the actual paintings, but from photos of the floorboards where the fellow threw his paint around.  I opened up one of those photos in Photoshop, went to Select –> Color Range, and then played with the fuzziness and range options in that window to select just little bits of paint splatters.  Then I pasted those selections over the original Gotham poster and turned the opacity mode to overlay so the original was still visible.  I did that about eight times, rotating each new layer of paint splatters (and sometimes adjusting the color a bit) to make them look as messy as Jackson Pollock’s splatters.