Assignment 2 - Braintstorming

So, our next assignment is to design a currency.  We'll have to design both sides of 6 bills: 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100.  I've considered everything from Disney characters (Mickey on the $1, of course!) to some variation of Monopoly money.  However, I decided to go with American photographers because money is exactly what every working artist is pretty sure he'll never have.  The photographers I've settled on are:

• $1, Ansel Adams
• $5, Edward Weston
• $10, Sally Mann
• $20, Annie Leibovitz
• $50, Diane Arbus
• $100, Richard Avedon

I feel like I have a good mix of contemporary and pioneering photographers here, and I think I've got each in an appropriate spot.  Now I just need to settle on the images to use on the opposing side of each bill.  I plan to use a well known work from each artist and have a bank of those already.  I just need to solidify and then start mocking up the basics of the bills which I'll save for class tomorrow.

UPDATE: I've included some examples for faces of the 1$ and 5$ bills below.

Original portrait of Ansel Adams

 Bill-ified Ansel Adams with half-toning

Original portrait of Edward Weston

Bill-ified Edward Weston with half-toning

For the reverse of each of these I'll be using a photo taken in Grand Teton National Park from Adams and the famous pepper from Weston.  I haven't started "bill-ifying" these yet, though.