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Here are a few more pictures that I took this weekend. I am not sure if I like the reclining pose with the book and the glasses or the other one better. Please give me any feedback on which one you guys prefer.

So here are some pictures that I took this past week. I am not sure that they really capture what I want them to but I am thinking of how I can change the background to change the content of the photo. I think the photos turned out really beautifully and I will deffinately be taking many more photos in the next week or two. The empty picture frame is where I will be putting the original artwork thanks to some of you wonderful ideas! Let me know what you all think.

I would like to make my book a standard 8x10 size through blurb.

On the front of my book I would like to have an image of me that looks like I am trapped in a frame.



On the back of my book I would like to have a picture of me holding the picture of me trapped in the frame.



I would like to put my artist statement on the back flap of the book so that whoever is looking at the book can look at it first with a fresh mind and their own opinions before seeing what my intent was for the pictures. I don't want to have any text to go along with the pictures. I think I would like to have the pictures full spread over the pages.

Here is another artwork that I have decided to recreate. Not quite sure what all I would like to change in it yet. Photoshoot this coming weekend!

Okay, so I was super sick this weekend and had to hold off on my photoshoot but I decided to at least post some more detailed ideas for one of my selected artworks.

In this picture I am thinking of portraying the working woman. I would like to change the background of this one to something like a brick wall of a building. The woman will probably have a pencil behind her ear instead of a flower. I'm not sure if I want to portray the woman in this one as more of a hard working business woman or more of a hard working waitress type of woman. Either way I want to show this woman as a hard working individual who also embraces her beauty as a woman.

So before I actually do a photoshoot for my artist book I need to make sure that I have all of my ideas clear for each of the artworks that I chose to reinvent. I think I have decided that for each photo I will have a certain theme. Hopefully when next week comes around I will have had time to take some actual photos for my book.

This is the picture that I want to use for my first photo.



In this one as I mentioned before I am going to move her hand slightly. I think the theme for this one is going to be knowledge. I am thinking about having a book laying on her and maybe some reading glasses as she rests her eyes for a second from reading. I might even have her laying on a stack of books. I'm not sure if I should change the background or not. I want to make sure that I stay clear from making the picture seem school girlish at all.

Here is another picture that I definately want to use.



In this picture I would really like to have the girl putting on a pair of combat boots. I would like to make her seem a little more rugged and beat up as if she has been in battle. I guess the theme for this one would be something such as courage or bravery.

Artworks which I may use

For all of these photos I may change the background slightly or ad props to the scene that would imply things such as knowledge and power to these woman instead of them just being sexual beings.

In this first photo, I have the idea of making the woman more alert by opening her eyes. I would like to maybe place her hand higher onto her thigh instead of between her legs which draws your attention to you know what.


In this one I would like to have the woman look over her shoulder and give a very confident stare into the viewers eyes. Maybe she could be holding a prop that implies something in her hand that is hanging down.








In some of these pictures I would also like to paint or draw text of some sort onto the actual woman's body. The text may be a quote of some sort by a well known feminist or something that the actual woman has to say about an experience they have had as a woman.