May 6

Eat Your Greens

What can be better than taking something healthy and making it disturbing? I gave myself the retouching exercise like none other. My goal is to take simple pictures of a random objects, and then make it appear as if it’s something completely different. The original broccoli image (seen below) is of a squishy stress toy compliments of the local grocery store. The seam was already there so I went for it, adding stitches and dripping blood. It sort of reminds me of a brain.

Eat Your Greens (original, side by side)

The text reads:

Broccoli is good for-
Eat your greens