Finally have a computer again, which means I can actually be bothered to update the blog again. Our latest project at school was a project on dramatisation and staging… (no idea if that is translated properly there…) and we were given the painting The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli as inspiration. Our task was to do a modern twist on the image, inspired by but without being the same.

I decided to give Venus a bit of an edge, to symbolize the awesomeness of the modern woman, to show women in control rather than the sweet innocent looking Venus that Botticelli painted.

All in all I am fairly pleased with the image, but that is due to a good couple of hours in Photoshop just fixing minor things. Firstly, due to space constraints in the flat, I was unable to get the picture from straight ahead… to compensate for that I needed to use the distort tool in Photoshop, whilst making sure that my two fantastic models weren’t stretched to look like they were out of Fantastic Four. And then I “painted” the wall purple to create a better separation from the couch to give it more “oomph”.

Thanks to Martine Skrove and BT Økland for being my models, you guys were champs! (And yes, Martine a little bit more… but BT did drive an hour to and from his flat to pick up his shirt etc… so BT too!) Thanks to Bente Isefjær as well for stepping in last minute to do makeup… I think the image would have gotten a lot more of  the Joker feel had I tried to do it myself. Thanks also to Martine and Bjørn Christiansen for lending me an SB-900 each (turns out I should have borrowed more :P)

Well, here’s the result: