Artist Statement

I am fascinated with fooling ones eye. The art I produce deals with photo-manipulation also known as "manips". The manips mainly deal with putting together two people that have not necessarily been in the same time and place, though it would have appeared as if they were. I started to do photo-manipulation at a young age, when I knew I would pretty much never meet certain actors and actresses that I would have wanted to, along with some bands. Making my work consists of people with celebrities or musicians.

There is a sense of enjoyment of trying to blend two images together. It comes down to having to match the images as if they are one. This means you must match the lighting, texture and the clarity of the image, thus having to work through many different techniques to achieve the "fool ones eye" effect. It has been a learning process for sure, from using paint and different programs in between till Photoshop came into the picture.

I try to use different platforms to form my work. Ether it be on my phone or laptop, or even a different program other then Adobe Photoshop. Below are two images of my work, both are from two different programs and forums.

Can you guess which images were done where? :)

2017: Eric Balfour (actor & musician) 2011: Jared Padalecki (actor)

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Image & Text in Visual Arts 1st Assignment

The idea of nail polish came to me when my mother and I were talking about how people think that are nails were salon done, when we just paint them ourselves, I suppose we really nice nails, but it gave me the idea for this ad. I wanted to be creative with the name, so I went with my trademark Bowdacious and built from there. As I read in the books, I new I did not want to use many different fonts, so I stuck with a total of three. Obviously you have Bowdacious in the standout font that draws you in and is a font I most classify with. I chose a nice accent font that is in the same family with being pretty, but doesnt clash with the main title. I knew I needed one more font to break up the ad, so I chose a little bit of bolder font and made it white. My focus was more on the text rather then the images themselves, but you need images in an ad to draw someone in to buying a product. The dripping of nail polish coming down from the top of the page implies that is what was used to write...

Preliminary Work for Main Project Part One

I have had some experience with making signs. Though those signs were for L.E.D.S. I sketched out a few for the main hotel logo as well as for the upscale restaurants and bar. I took it upon my own creativity considering there is no such thing as The Hudson Valley Inn. It left open to one owns interpretation of what the names and styles of the hotel would be and have. I did however, keep in considering the feel that was mention about a scenic escape for city dwellers, but still keeping it classy but with a cozy like feel.

M4 CP - Design Competition (Part 1)

Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2018 Deadline: January 14, 2018 (76 days left) http://www.artprize.co.uk/the-prize.html This competition is open world wide and open to any age. The target audience is anyone and any design form is welcomed. I am going to mainly use Adobe Photoshop, it is in fact one of my strong suits and will be able to transform my design concepts below very well. Basically it will achieve what and how I would like it turn out. My Design concept, I wanted to think really outside the box that would make you think.."What the hell?" But yet it is still very appealing to the eye and is very interesting and for most never really been seen before. I guess you could say it is like a puzzle and that is some what I was going for. Yes the design is dark and the color schemes will reflect such. Purple background, with red tongue, brown pieces for the faces and hair. Here are my design sketches:

Make the Real into Real Fake

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