Dazzling Digital Art

Here is my sixth and final project for my Multimedia Installation class! This project was to create something personal on any scale or any subject we chose! I decided to use a white wooden castle, some doll furniture, and childhood images for my project. The song used in the video is 'Tiger Tiger' by Webkinz.  Fantastical Facts: Innocence Castle Edition: The castle I used is a smaller wooden castle that was painted white. Then my mom helped me cover all of the windows and place a small piece of paper in each section in order for the images to appear clearly. Each section has a different theme. One is images of my family's first home. Two are of fun moments from my childhood. One is special events (birthdays, Halloween, etc). One is of my cousins and I at my cousin's birthday party. Another is my stuffed cat, Kiki, changing colors. I also included one of some of my other stuffed animals and another funny clip of me dancing when I was younger. In total, there are ten diff...

Here is my fifth project for my Multimedia Installation class! This project was a large scale projection onto whatever we wanted. I chose to use old pageant footage from when I used to compete and news articles in the background about controversial topics in the community. Fantastical Facts: White Dress Edition: The dress used is a white gown that I used to compete in! Since the dress was white, I was able to use it as a screen and project onto it.  I did two runs of this project. One in a production studio at school with a small projector, and then again at school in a different room with a larger projector. The second time was better than the first and there were some changes made along the way.   Special shoutout to my mom for helping me with this project! I couldn't have done it without you!   As always, thank you for supporting this small artist and blog! I hope you enjoy the work as much as I do when I create it! Have a magical day! -Maddy Wessling  

  Here is my third project for my Multimedia Installation class! For this project, we needed to create a Camera Obscura within our own homes using supplies that we had! Fantastical Facts: Camera Obscura Edition: This project was a little difficult because of the view from our windows. In my house, we have nice views of plants and even a pool, but because of how the windows are positioned, not much is seen when the room is darkened. Some of the windows were also too big to cover with just trash bags, so I really only had one window option. That is why the pictures are not the most exciting due to the view. I found a little hack to cut the circle perfectly! The diameter needed to be around two inches, and it turns out the little Keurig cups are perfect! It made cutting the hole in the trash bags so much easier! The pictures were also a little bit difficult to take because of the dark room. I really liked how they turned out though!  As always, thank you for supporting this small...

Here is my second project for my Multimedia Installation class! For this project, we needed to create a fragmented video with 6 to 9 squares all with footage that went together. I decided to step out of the box a bit and create a 6 canvas wide painting that when put together, makes one giant painting called, Doxies In Space ! I filmed the footage of myself painting it and made the clips into 6 sections to achieve the product. Fantastical Facts: Doxies In Space Edition: All together, the footage took a little over 2 hours to film and paint! Each clip had to be filmed one at a time, panel by panel. It took about a week of prep work as well, drawing on the canvases and getting all of the supplies set.  After each panel was filmed, I then converted all of the files over to my computer to save space. Because I filmed on my IPhone 8, I didn't have a lot of space to work with storage wise.  Once I had everything filmed, I made the panels using precise math in Premiere Pro. Then I edi...

***IMAGE FLASH WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT WATCH THE VIDEO IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO MOVEMENT OR FLASHING LIGHTS*** Here is my first project for my Multimedia Installation class! This class will be very different from what I have done in the past, using new techniques and software. Our assignment was to create a one minute video, including credits, on the topic of "embracing the error." All sound was made using Garageband and mixkit.co.  Fantastical Facts: Beauty is Error Edition: Beauty is Error is about embracing the error in the way that women think about their bodies. We have pre-conceived notions that out bodies should look a certain way, and we should embrace the way we naturally are more often.  I am not a huge video editor so I am really proud of how I was able to create different effects using Premiere Pro. Messing around with different effects and speeds was a lot of fun and something different from what I usually do!  I am also not used to making sound for pieces so i...