Kirsten Lepore is an American stop-motion animator who has been interested in this type of animation since she was just ten years old. She initially created short films for fun, until she decided to upload them onto Vimeo, a website that allows artists to collaborate and share videos. She soon went viral and has recieved…
Multiple (Selfie) Portrait
The goal for this project was to create a conceptual multiple self portrait that reveals different aspects of your personality by combining several pictures of yourself (taken specifically for this project) into a single image. Your image should contain a minimum of three distinct versions of you. Think about how you can clearly distinguish between these different…
Kelli Connell
Kelli Connell is a photogapher who is from Texas and currently lives in Chicago. She specializes in conceptual multiple self portraits, or to simply phrase it, creating portraits with multiple versions of herself. She works closely with her stand-in and model, Kiba Jacobson, to help generate these images that forces the viewer to look more…
Surrealist Collage
For this project, the guidelines are as follows: “Use your knowledge of tools, layers, and blending modes to transform/manipulate/remix a set of appropriated images to create a surrealist collage. Your final image should contain elements from at least 15 distinct images found through a Google image search. No personal photographs or scanned images are permitted for this assignment. Though…
Cory Archangel
Cory Archangel is a post-conceptual artist from Brooklyn, New York. He states in an interview with NOWNESS that he tries to “preserve things in culture that have disappeared or bringing digital images back to life.” Most of his inspiration derives from pop culture from the 80s/90s to the present. Archangel is one of the principal…
One Tool
For this project, I had to create three unique images in Adobe Photoshop at an image size of 800 x 600 pixels (300 pixels/inch) and post them here as JPGs. Each image was created using only one tool. The assignment is not merely a demonstration of the three tools I chose, but an opportunity to…
David McLeod
David McLeod is a graphic artist who hails from Australia and currently resides in New York City. He focuses on texture and space in 3-D art and explores new methods for creating visually pleasing images with CGI. Much Creative, a collaboration studio best explains McLeod’s style by noting, “Employing this approach, David McLeod creates 3D…
Logo Project
The description for this project is as follows: “This project is an opportunity to explore some of the basic tools and features of Adobe Illustrator. Use a combination of shapes, text, brushes, and textures to create a logo for your class blog. Post three variations of the image to your blog as jpegs or pngs…
Robert Beatty
My first artist blog will be about Robert Beatty. Beatty is a Lexington, Kentucky born-and-raised graphic artist and musician. He creates unique, psychedelic digital works of art with his vintage computers from the 90s and early 2000s. Some of his most well-known creations include Challenger (2008), Currents (2015), and Oczy Mlody (2017). I will also include…
My Aesthetic
To get to know me and my art style a little bit better, these images will better explain my aesthetic better than my words ever could. My personal choices in materialistic things such as clothing and home decor do not accurately reflect the aesthetic I find most pleasing, as you will see below! – –…
