THE BRIEF
This brief requires me to create an ode on a food of my choice whilst creating an artwork that supports the ode that will in end be merged together to create a double page spread.
THE CONCEPT
For this project I will be exploring the magical and
experimental features of magic mushrooms through a digital painting done using Photoshop. I will have two mushrooms on a field of grass where one of the mushrooms have been bitten by a human, that is clearly visible. I will have a chameleon sitting on the bitten mushroom with its psychedelic coloured tong swinging out at the viewer an a non realistic way, this supporting the effects of mushrooms on the user.
experimental features of magic mushrooms through a digital painting done using Photoshop. I will have two mushrooms on a field of grass where one of the mushrooms have been bitten by a human, that is clearly visible. I will have a chameleon sitting on the bitten mushroom with its psychedelic coloured tong swinging out at the viewer an a non realistic way, this supporting the effects of mushrooms on the user.
Reasoning : The reason for using mushrooms is that as a designer we should explore our visual minds and mushrooms gives the user a visual experience like no other. What it does is alter the minds visuals of what you are really seeing or looking at.The chameleon is one of those crazy reptiles that can change colour to best suit its surrounds almost like camouflage, some turning into crazy psychedelic colours so that is why I felt it would be perfect for this piece
ODE
Food for the mind, come see what you can find.
*This will count as my first complete digital painting using a wacom
A BRIEF HISTORY OF MUSHROOMS
Some historians believe that magic mushrooms may have been used as far back as 9000 B.C. in North African indigenous cultures, based on representations in rock paintings. Statues and other representatives of what appear to be mushrooms that have been found in Mayan and Aztec ruins in Central America.
Magic mushrooms began to be eaten by Westerners in the late 1950s. A mycologist (one who studies mushrooms) named R. Gordon Wasson was traveling through Mexico to study mushrooms in 1955. He witnessed and participated in a ritual ceremony using magic mushrooms.
Mushrooms most likely evolved independently rather than having a common ancestor. It is possible that they experienced evolutionary losses due to ecological reasons. The species of Psilocybe are united because they share the psychedelic compound psilocybin and other secondary metabolites.
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