Midterm Mosaic

I'm linking today with Mary at

Little Red House 

for Mosaic Monday.

My mosaic for this week is my midterm project

 for my Photoshop class last winter quarter.

We had to pick a "big idea" and create a

 mosaic with internet pictures to reflect our choice. 

The "big idea" I chose was emotions. 

We started with 40 different pictures put together in

mosaic form to represent that idea.

I no longer have a copy of the first stage of the

project, but step two was to start using the

techniques we were learning in class to blend the

pictures together.  Here is

my mosaic for step two.

 

           The mosaic represents the specific emotion of deep

 sorrow and depression, as I'm sure you can tell. 

My daughter was going through a very dark time in

her life and the pictures I chose 

represent her suffering and deep despair.

I was very pleased with my work and how it was

progressing, but my teacher was not as pleased with it

as I was. He prodded me to take it a step further

by blending the photos even more.  I was

reluctant to tamper with what I thought was a finished

work, but for a better

grade, I kept working on it.

Here is my finished work.

 

I will be forever grateful that he did not let me

settle with step two, because I love how

the finished project turned out.