These images I found are made up from the plus button on every window on a Mac. I think this is a good camo for the button, as at first look you may not recognize it. Multiplied, they form a screen of water droplets, making a bigger picture out of a small element.





This version is a spider web. The colour of the button works well, as it looks like the web is dripping with water.







This is a picture by Andy Warhol, of himself. His face is divided up into an army-style camoflauge pattern. If you look closely at the joints of each division, it looks a little bit like a jigsaw. The different pieces may even represent different aspects of him, or different features.






I found this picture of a satellite disguised by its surroundings. I think this is a clever idea, espeically if you want the wall to remain clean and tidy.







I have always wondered how a Gecko can camouflage itself in any surroundings. Its the ultimate camouflage!









As well as used in art, I think that its important to know that camo is also used as a way of defence or attack in war. It can be used to blend into your surroundings, just like the gecko. In the army, it is used to spring surprise attacks and ambushes on the enemy.




A generic camouflage texture uses soft-edged shapes of 3 or 4 shades of a certain colour. The most popular colour is army green. Camouflage is most associated with the army for this reason.







I found this image by Peter Caulfield. I noticed how it uses the outline of a glass 5 times. This is a technique that I am going to use, but I'm am currently unsure about the background colour of it.








For my final piece I am going to use 5 generations of family members. I will get 5 images, scan them in and make an outline of them all. I will then overlay each outline, in chronological order, so you get a timeline kind of effect. Older photos are strongly associated with dark, musty colours, for example, browns and olives and dark greens. I will take this into consideration when deciding which colour of colours to use in my piece.

I like how Andy Warhol divided up his face by using a traditional camo pattern. I think you can achieve a very good face division with the 'threashold' image adjustment within photoshop if you do it correctly. I included this in my final piece, and with one of the images, I combined the over-threashold background, with the under-threashold face of a person.

I created this image in Illustrator a while ago. In it, I divided the most important parts of my face up to create this effect. Only the most important divisions are shown, picking out the details that are needed.






This is another picture of me, this time I used the threashold adjustment within Photoshop to highlight the important details of my face, much like the previous method. I filled in the important areas with type, and achieved this great effect.







For my finished piece, I decided to use 5 generations of family. I took five family members and put them onto a timeline using the threashold effect as above. This time, I didn't leave the white space around the edges. In the effect of army camo, I linked up all of the washed details, and left the deep details to show. With the type effect, it definitely gives the same shade difference that army camo gives. I didn't use a large array of colours because I kept with the traditional army effect - they don't use different colours they just use different shades of one colour. I decided to keep it black, as many of the photos I used are very old.

This is my finished piece.

Camouflaged photos.