Week #2 FINAL-'Cathouse' Project

Here is my inspiration piece:

Experimenting with textures:

I first created my images doing simple vector drawings in Illustrator finding my inspiration in the image found above. I decided to tell a story with my recreation of the images I chose before I copied it into Photoshop to give it some effective blends to further tell it's story.

The linear light blend shows a great deal of the concrete floor with footprints texture I used.  Perhaps the most texture of the three I chose.  If you look closely, you can almost see the footprints here.  One can only imagine a night stalker scoping out and then breaking into the house, then the surprised reaction of the event the next day!

The color burn blend shows off the most vibrance of the colors even though it doesn't show the texture a great deal, as do the other versions.  Yet somehow this version gives a whole other feeling to the story...somehow more mysterious, more dramatic, perhaps due to the bright, bold colors used.

And the hard light blend is a subtle blend of both the images I created and the concrete floor with footprints texture.  A somewhat calmer version perhaps, yet still very effective.

I think each blend, each texture can tell a quite different story or give a contrasting different version to the same piece, thus enhancing it's many moods.  It's interesting to me how you can feel one way using one blend or texture while feeling altogether different using another one.