For my first remix assignment, I wanted to use something I’d previously made and remix it. I clicked on the Random button on the remix page until I got an assignment I’d done before. I ended up getting a remixed version of the DS106 Propaganda Poster assignment where I have to make it look like a Jackson Pollock painting. For reference, here’s my original assignment. I wasn’t entirely sure how I could make a propaganda poster look like a Jackson Pollock painting, since they’re so abstract. For reference, here’s a random one:

Not exactly compatible with a propaganda poster. To hell with it, though. I opened up my original poster in Paint.NET. I decided to not manually edit anything. No more painting over things or adding new text. I went to the Effects tab and stacked effects, trying to get them to come out similar to an abstract painting. After a while of testing different effects alone and in combination with each other, I got this:

You can definitely see the original poster peeking through the distortion, but it definitely looks much more like a Pollock-esque painting than a propaganda poster now. I thought about editing the colours, but I figured the colour scheme would be pretty much the last part hinting that it was originally that poster, so I decided to revert it back to its original colours.