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...

       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.   ...

      I can't believe it's here already. It feels like just last week I was wandering around campus, taking pictures of everything I walked past, thinking "could this be art?" I'm not sure that all of it really was, but I was trying really hard. I was excited to learn about visual literacy, because I had no idea what that even was, let alone how to use it.      Since then, I definitely still have a lot to learn about the elements of art and how to use them well and what looks good and how things could look better. But, I've certainly come a long way in this area and understand way more then I did coming in.     I've been able to learn skills like photo editing, illustrating with vector graphics, and audio production. I think the vector poster might have been the most time consuming assignment for me. I was excited to work with Adobe Illustrate for the first time, and wanted to take my time getting used to it. This involved watching a 3 hour long t...

      Night photography was something that I really enjoyed experimenting with this semester. I even got to drag some of my friends in to have some fun with me. I tend to be attracted to darker things, and night photos that I had seen before were always incredible to me, but I didn't understand the challenge of having very little source of light at night. Now, I've learned that a little light means a long shutter speed. This means that you definitely need a tripod unless you want a very blurry image, and that movement in the frame will definitely be noticeable.      I wanted to try this thing called light painting that I'd heard about before. Pros use tons of fun and colorful lights to make amazing light paintings. Living in my dorm, I do not have any fancy lights, but I do have friends with smart phones, and flashlights on their smart phones!     It was so fun to see how excited everyone got when we saw that an image worked out, no one really kne...