Acrylic Gel Lift

For this project I chose to create an acrylic gel lift, however, first I had to take a photo that breaks the rules of the elements and principles of design. I must admit, the photo I ended up using is a bit strange. First of all, for some random reason the school decided to turn on the sprinklers in the field in the beginning of winter. And because I sometimes have the mind of a 7 year old I decided it would be fun to take my photos in the field while the sprinklers were going off. Second of all, both Rachel and Armand happen to be just as immature as me and after catching up with me in the field, they decided that it would be funny to run around the field too. And because of all of these events the photo I ended up using is of Armand doing what looks like a Michael Jackson dance move and Rachel laughing at how weird he looks. The aperture I used was 8 and I had a shutter speed of 1/60. To make the acrylic gel lift I had to make the contrast of the photo a lot darker and print it on one of the schools laser printers. Then I layered it with 10 layers of the acrylic gel and on the second last layer I painted it with acrylic gel mixed with blue and purple paint (purple is my favorite colour). Then when the gel finally dried and I got all the paper of I decided that because I can't live a day without my I pod, that I would turn my gel lift into an I pod case. So with a little imagination, some rubber cement glue and my exacto knife at home I was able to make a decent I pod case. YAY! :D