Project #4 // Reflection Journal

In this project, I had a specific process while creating my slide show.

At first, I had to think of a theme. I changed my theme probably about six times throughout this project. I wanted a theme that was interesting so I could go in deep detail with it as well as a theme that would not be common in our online group. For my theme, I chose Self-Portraits created by famous artists. Once I created a theme, I googled famous artists and Google had a wide variety of information on famous artists from the 1500's to the 1900's.

I used the Google Art pages to find my photos for my curator project. I was kind of frustrated while using the Google art pages because they did not have a wide variety for the majority of the themes I originally planned to do. Luckily, I found at least 10 well-known and famous artists who created self portraits of themselves. I search 10 images, screen shotted, took down the page, and wrote down the information I needed for each slide. Then I started to create my slideshow.

I wanted my theme to seem as though it was truly in an art gallery. I went with a sophisticated theme for the color scheme for the slide show. For each slide, I put the screenshot of the self portrait as well as the information needed and the direct link to the page where I found the art pieces.

Each slide has it's own information slide along with it, where I share a small fact about each artist as well as what is within the self-portrait that helps fit my theme.

Overall, the project was fun to do. I wish that the Google art pages had more variety of photos -- the ArtStor page was not working for me so I could not use it. It was fun creating the slideshow and learning about artists who created Self-Portraits. My favorite person to do research on was Andy Warhol because I love all of his work. The project was a lot of fun to do though.