For my last visual assignment, I choose “Art Comes to Life.”  When I saw this assignment, I knew I wanted to do it and I knew the exact photo I wanted to use.  I choose to recreate Edvard Munch’s The Scream.  This picture always makes me smile, just because of the man’s facial expression.  I know that might sound a little weird because its suppose to be a scared man in a spooky setting, but I just find this picture interesting.  It looks to be quickly sketched but the colors and strokes make this picture unique/creative. I know I did not get it exactly right but I gave it my best.

To complete this assignment, I went downtown to the city docks.  There is a little wooden bridge that overlooks the river.  There is where the picture was taken, to capture the wooden fence and the water in the background like the original  picture.  I wore a black coat and pulled my hair back to resemble the man the best I could.  Then I tried to pull off the facial expression, which was hard for me to do without laugh!  I had a friend take the photo on my iPhone. This photo was taken during the day so I used Photoshop to make it look like the sun was setting.  To do this, I uploaded the picture into Photoshop then I added a photo filter layer. I used the warming filter (85) with a density of 57 and preserved luminosity. I was a lot of fun trying to recreate this piece of art.  It was also my first time using Photoshop, so it was a lot of trial and error but I am glad I could get my feet wet.  Enjoy!

The original photo: http://www.edvard-munch.com/gallery/anxiety/scream.htm

My “The Scream” photo: