Grace's Art Place

       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.       ...

  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.   ...