Spotty at Best

Unfortunately, I had to work Thursday so I was not in class for the newspaper dot transformations and I may not have understood the assignment completely - but this is what I did and I think it's kind of fun.  I also did these upside down as I was told to do with the dots from the newspaper articles...I guess I could turn them upside down if I need to.  My idea from the time I heard about this assignment was "OH MY KIDS CAN BE THE LITTLE DOTS!" because naturally that is how my thought process works.  From there it got interesting.  My mom (check her out at www.Knorwoodportraiture.com, what what) has a studio and she just so happened (yay for coincidences!) to have her white background up!  The issue I started facing (as I planned this out in my mind) was knowing that with the camera and the studio I was working inside certain dimensions.  I knew I could only add so much depth to the picture so I tried to create curved lines, but...well...it went as best as it could considering I was bribing a 7 and 3 year old.  And also yelling out "ELECTRIC THUNDER TURTLE POSITION" to get my 3 year old to curl up into a ball (seriously...don't ask.)  I found the different size stools and covered them in white and had my subjects (who I am ever so thankful for!) take different positions to attempt to create some depth.  Hindsight (you know, that thing that is 20/20) I would've paid more attention to the line at the 'top' of the picture.  I needed the weight to be even at the top of the dot composition, but I was so worried about the center of the picture that I didn't even notice it.  So - like I said - it's spotty at best ;)  And a great thanks to my helpers!!