Saint Annette and the Dragon

 

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 completely.  I used the clone stamp tool to blend their faces into the background before moving, flipping, transforming, and rotating our heads onto the bodies.  I also chose to change the color of our faces to a sepia under the adjustment presets and use the brightness and contrast edit options to blend better with the colors.  It was all overwhelming at first, but I started to catch on and experiment with different options.

The background that I decided to use from the National Gallery of Art was Saint George and the Dragon (Rogier van der Weyden, 1966), which I renamed Saint Annette and the Dragon to represent the theme of my photomontage.  I settled on this selection because it expresses my triumphant journey to become an independent, successful business woman that would risk my life to protect my loved ones; hence, choosing to replace Saint George's face with mine while wearing high heels to slay the dragon and save my princess granddaughter.  I added a rose tattoo on the horse signifying love, beauty, and strength, and the Nike-Just Do It logo on my shield to represent my love for health and fitness (as well as my competitiveness).  I added a dolphin and a luxury cruise boat in the water to portray my love of the ocean, my favorite marine mammal, and for travel.  Of course, the white horse, princess, and castle from the background were the fantasy icing on the cake.

Image Sources:

Nike and Just Dot It Logo:  https://www.vecteezy.com/free-vector/nike-just-do-it
Carnival Cruise Ship:  https://pngtree.com/freebackground/carnival-cruise-ship-at-sea_3090530.html
Dolphin jumping out of water:  https://stock.adobe.com/search/images?k=dolphin+jumping
Red high heel:  https://pixabay.com/vectors/high-heel-shoe-red-heel-high-pump-158363/
Rose:  https://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vector/red-rose-vector-24361952

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