Annette Sherwood's Designs

When trying to decide on an event that I could attempt to do multiple sketches and have fun with, I was drinking wine with my daughter.   She suggested to look for a wine event (go figure).  We love wine tasting (especially in the Fingerlakes).  I found one of my favorite wine events--the Wine and Chocolate Festival coming in November at the NYS Fairgrounds.  The following are my rough sketches, incorporating the 7 elements (goal, audience, whitespace, text, imagery, format and color) into each of them:   Sketch #1 - I started out with the Wine & Chocolate Festival logo and placed it in a pink box with the words "wine" and "festival" in red and "chocolate" in brown.  I added images of a wine bottle, two glasses toasting, chocolate and chocolate covered strawberries to give the poster a little more pizzazz and break up all the text. Sketch #2 - I chose to add larger images to stand out on the poster--a large bottle of wine and red glass of wine wit...

  Welcome to my personal photomontage - Saint Annette and the Dragon - 2024 At first I started to merely add my self-interpreted photomontage (below-right), but then decided it was not as impactful as a side-by-side comparison to the original Saint George and the Dragon painting from 1966 (below-left) as the subtle nuances would be missed or lost in translation. This was quite the project for me as it was my first attempt at creating a photomontage while learning and using the many different tools and techniques in Photoshop.  Some of the tools that I used were the quick selection tool, object selection tool, the lasso and layer masks that enabled me to choose the images that I wanted from separate files, such as my face, my granddaughter's face, as well as other personal images and to drag them into place on my chosen background, creating layers.  I was a little perplexed on how to incorporate our heads on Saint George and on the princess seamlessly covering them comple...

Through the many images of the National Gallery of Art, I chose three works of art that peaked my interest:  The Archangel Gabriel, Saint George and the Dragon, and The Lighthouse at Honfleur. The Archangel Gabriel - Masolino de Panical (1939) Saint George and the Dragon - Rogier v an der Weyden (1966) The Lighthouse at Honfleur - Georges Sewrat (1983) Instead of drawing images, I decided to print out the artwork that I chose and cut out images to have a better visual of where and how I wanted them placed.  The first sketch that I made below shows me as the angel holding my granddaughter, Bailey.  I did not cut the images exactly how I wanted them placed (with my head as the angel head and Bailey in the angels arms).  Instead, I kept the image of my head, upper body, and arms together to depict the message of me as the angel/guardian holding my angelic granddaughter looking at her with so much love and compassion. However, in the final draft, I would separate my head...