Texture

This texture project working with relief sculptures was harder for me. I think I was heavally influenced by the pressure of time and "pier pressure" (they were finishing faster than me). In my composition, there weren't too many specific textures but the ones that I have wound up working somewhat well. I got some great feedback from my friends who said that the barrier down the middle separated a more sharp and hard side of my sculpture from the softer, smoother side. I liked that I worked around with the color and tried not to think about anything and just go for it. I feel like this was a great experiment that may not have turned out exactly how I wanted, but it will serve as a good starting point for sculptures in the future.
In the pictures my jacket got in the way a little at the bottom...

1) I think that the most interesting part of the texture project was getting to experiment with photoshop. It was fun to go a little more in depth for the first time.
2) The best textural picture I took was probably the one of the shrub/wall. I is simply a picture of a wall covered in a shrub but it was a cool unique texture that worked really well when it came to photoshop.
3) My final collage was my most successful. My first two collages were a sort of experiment or "try" and it seemed like I used good information that I had learned to create one good complete collage.
4) My favorite collage was my best one. I cropped and blew up a small part of an old picture of a fire hydrant I had taken in the color unit. After that, I rubbed on some textures around the knob of the yellow fire hydrant. In the end it came out very well, focusing on the knob and then as you look around, the good textures.
5)Taking what I learned from Mr. O's demonstration, I think that I will go along the lines of trying to really bring out certain part of my sculpture, and let some fade to the background as a cool way for the viewer's eye to wander.
Here are some pictures of my three collages: