Winnie

As a contrast to 'Butterfly Universe' I have put this image on to show how your creativity is only limited by our mind. The technology will do anything your mind can think of. The problem is getting your ind to think of it in the first place. The image above was just a very plain picture of a girl. I knew that I wanted to make her black and white because she had dark features, but beyond that I wasn't sure how to make it stand out. After looking at this black and white image for a while I realised that the Winnie and Piglet design on her jacket looked better in colour, so that became the colour aspect of the image, but I was still left with all this white space on the other side of the image (convention told me that it needed to be in the picture so that the girl was looking into actual space).

I decided to use the colour sampler tool to take colours from the design on her jacket to make blocks of colour. I don't know why I chose blocks. Again I just went with my instinct. Maybe I was reading a book on pop art that week or something. Don't be afraid to borrow from the world around you or the styles and images that inspire you. Use these things to create something truly original. The image works I think because the colour in the blocks relate directly to the colours in her jacket. I even connected the subject to the picture by putting her between the inner and the outer red frames.

At first I didn't really like this image but I do now. It has aged well. I created it around summer 2004. The only thing I can't work out is if it is a black and white portrait or not. What do you think?