Recreation Print

For this project we were assigned to recreate a famous painting. I decided to use a painting called Arachne by Diego Velazquez. I used the darkroom and my Canon Rebel T5 to take this photo. Some of the photographic techniques i used are: low key lighting, the arms and the shirt represent leading lines, selective focus is used because the background is blurry and the foreground is clear, and the balance used informal balance. I used the following elements of art in my artwork: you can see different textures on the shirt, the arm, shirt, and board represent line, and shape is used because there are different geometric shapes throughout the image. To add interest to my composition, I used these principles of design: the balance used here is informal balance, there is black and white contrast and there is smooth and rough contrast, there is emphasis of Catriona because the lines lead you to her. I think that I could have done a better job of printing this image.