You don't truly realize just how poor you are.....until you try to do a project for art class.
Money is tight and so far I've managed to get away with using whatever is stashed away to create my projects, but this week's assignment threw me for a loop. Take a black and white photograph, print it out, trace it and then take black and grey and white newspaper and make a collage using the paper for the hues.
BIG PROBLEM....our newspapers here seem to be MOSTLY color. I never thought I'd ever see the day when I wished we had black and white again. I mean I figured the printing of the picture would give me a problem, after all I can't afford ink for the printer anymore so I was going to take a picture, render it black and white, turn it sideways and trace it off the computer screen.
I certainly didn't expect to get done in by a pile of beautiful color print newspapers. A business suit, someone gimmie a picture of a guy's back in a business suit taken in black and white. Give me a lady with white hair or wearing a white dress PLEEEEEEEEAASE.
I'm not sure why I am begging for pictures without color, I can't afford to buy the Free Press anyway, but even the smaller papers that are free contain a lot of color. Oh heck for that matter so does our Freeps. I had a peek at one while I was out for a dental appointment today...OMG where did they put my black and white. My beloved colorless pictures? Advertising in lovely shades, tints and tones, with nary a hint of rainbow colors.
Technically the assignment isn't mandatory, I only need to do two. I just wanted to do all 5 because I like to truly get a feel for a new technique. So...if you'll forgive the pun....I'll go back to the drawing board.
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