Grace's Art Place

 "don't tell me where this is going. I loooo-ooooo-ooove surprises" Nora Turato      Siena - Jenny Holzer Philadelphia - Steve Powers References: https://mymodernmet.com/text-art-masters/ https://www.artshelp.com/theres-something-about-text-based-art/

Point Manipulated To emphasize the "point" aspect of this photo, I first adjusted the hues and increased the saturation to abstract the area a bit. Then, I added some contrast by making the "darks" darker to make the individual dots of paint really stand out as "points" and so the center black splotch would be the first place your eye goes, as the main "point" of the image. Original Line Manipulated     To emphasize the lines in this photo, I first rotated and cropped the image into a square, so it would be less recognizable as just a rack of coat hangers. I changed the hues and increased saturation here as well as inverting it to further abstract. The goal was to allow the lines to be the main element, using them and the perspective to guide your eye straight back.  Original Plane Manipulated     The main change in this photo was flipping it upside down and cropping slightly to make a composition that really showcases the different planes visibl

 Transparency and Resolution The first image of three overlapping circles showcases the CMYK colors, which are subtractive. Therefore, adding them all together creates black, as seen in the center of their overlap. Using the screen blending mode in Photoshop, we are able to see how these colors interact.  This image does the same but with RGB colors that are on our screens. These are additive, so when added together, they create white.  This is the experimental image I created while playing around with layers and blending modes across them. I started with a photo I had of some old cigarette butts with cool shadows behind them and saw what I could do. I mostly added some different colored shapes and picked which blending mode I thought was coolest with it. Some of the modes featured are overlay, saturation, hue, and linear dodge. I then decided to mix in another photo to see what something with more variation and texture would do in these blending modes. I ended up with it on the linear

       Most of my artwork thus far is from the variety of classes I've taken in the Art, Film, and Communication departments. Last semester I was in an advanced photography course, Studio Lighting, and completed a ten piece portfolio.      Here are three of the ten photos from the final set. I set out to notice the old things in the world around us and how we deal with all of the stuff left behind from our rapidly developing technology. To find humor and irony in the tension between old and new, useful, and not and make photographs where this tension is the subject.  Tilted Gun Window Set Table          One semester I took a film course called Digital Cinema Production. We used Final Cut Pro and Apple Motion to animate a short video and produced the audio track in Garageband. It was one of the most challenging and time consuming projects I've done in school, but I was happy with the final result.          Although I haven't made this large of an animation project since, the

  Vanessa Rivera / The Life of Aivax      Vanessa Rivera is a digital artist whose work I first found from the cover art for Adobe Photoshop 2020. I looked her up after seeing it because I loved how imaginative and fun it was. I found her/ her families Instagram, and it was full of similar projects.            Her work blends the real world in photographs with imaginary places she is able to create in Photoshop. She also uses her kids and family as the main subjects, which I think makes it more personal and shows off her love for what she creates even more, as it's something that brings her family together.                        You can tell she does a lot of work to make her photos look naturally lit, with lighting that makes sense for the various scenarios. This helps to suspend disbelief a  bit and live in the fantasy worlds that she creates.                While she makes each piece with many  different photos and digital drawings pieced   together, her focus on the details, f