I wanted my composition to have a perfect balance between warm and cool colours. I also wanted to use items not commonly used by my classmates in their compositions. Hence, I used the Hello Kitty figurine and the Mr Muscle spray bottle as one of the main objects of my composition. The jar with the dragon pattern also caught my attention when I saw it. I wanted to challenge myself a little bit as it would be relatively tougher to cut the dragon pattern. The toothbrush was just there for laughs. I thought it would be so random to put a toothbrush in the middle so I did .

In the end, I came up with this photo:

The light source of my composition is mainly coming from the background and some from the light above. It doesn’t really have too prominent shadows. Thinking back, I should have taken the towel away and took the photo at a higher angle like most of my classmates did so I can play with the shadows more but I’m still contented with what I came up with. I decided to stick with it. While I was observing my photo, thinking of how I’m gonna start cutting, I decided to play around and edit the contrast and hue of the photo using the photo editing software of my phone to get a stronger and a more “in your face” photo.

The photo turned out to look like this:

The second photo is obviously more saturated and the colours turned out to be more vibrant. It’s also easier for me to choose which colour to use for each of the object in my composition.

My final piece:

I used white paper for the brightest parts of the photo (i.e. the highlights on the left side of Hello Kitty’s face, the sides of the spray bottle and the jar cover) and black for the darkest parts of the photo (i.e. the separation between the jar and it’s cover and the lower left part of the jar). In addition, I used analogous colours for the other parts to distinguish between the lighter and darker parts (i.e. For Hello Kitty’s bow, I used a very bright pink and a slightly darker shade of pink. For the toothbrush, the highlights are lighter shade of green and it’s other parts are a darker shade of green. For the jar, I used a combination of grey and black to show it’s handle on the left. The trees behind also has a combination of white from the sunlight and both light and dark shades of green. The same goes for the windows of the ADM building in the background and the blue towel in the foreground with a combination of dark and light shades of blue. I used brown and orange for the edge of the table behind).

For the towel, I used the craft knife to slash the coloured paper to create texture. Sadly, it doesn’t really show when I scanned the final piece. There’s also a bit of a pattern on the left side of Hello Kitty’s skirt.

I was lucky that I was able to use the same colours as it is in the original photo. I did not have to improvise with the limited choices of coloured paper in the classroom.