The Shaded Sun Beams

1. Desaturated the original so that it was in black and white.

2. Then, I used the Quick Selection tool (W), to select the inner most circle of the sun and used the Brush tool (B) to colour it yellow.

3. Then, I used the (W) tool to select the intermediate circle of the sun, and used the (B) tool to colour it orange.

4. Then, I used the (W) tool to select the outermost circle and used the (B) tool to colour it red.

5. Then, I used the Shape Blur filter to blend the colour so that it looks like the sun. Then, my laptop jammed for 3 hours and I had to off the whole laptop and I lost all my work and had to start from scratch again.

6. After repeating steps 1 - 4 again, I reduced the pixels from 300 to 200dpi. Then, I used the Shape Blur tool again and blended it at 143 pixels at first and prayed that it would work.

7. Thankfully, it did. Then, I used the same tool again and blended it at a higher pixel of 450. My laptop jammed again for a while but thankfully it worked. Finally, it actually looked like the sun.

8. Then, I used the (B) tool and selected a splatter form and painted 2 black each in diagonal corners. Then, I changed to the Pencil tool and scrolled along the artwork to paint spots all over the artwork.

9. Then, I added a picture of the sun to my artwork, rasterized the layer and changed it to Color Dodge.

Finally, this is the final product of my work after using photoshop. 

Art Work Title: The Shaded Sun Beams

Visual Treatment: 

i)      Brief description: The artwork shows that the sun is shining very brightly but as time goes by the sun will eventually die.

ii)      Art Movement: Abstract Expression

iii)      Reference Artist: Jackson Pollock

iv)      Theme: Environmentalism

v)      Ideation and Concept: The artwork shows the sun has a bright center and is shining very brightly. It is up close and personal as if seen from a spaceship rather than on earth. There are also dark black shapes and spots to symbolize that the sun is growing older and older year by year and will not last forever. It will eventually die no matter what we do. The question is if our species will out live the sun?

Art Work By: Shevanti Anthony

Student ID: B1102654