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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M3 CD booklet Part 2

My concept for my CD, consumed around the idea of Cocooning. Meaning everything around me is in fact me. Ether it is wrapping yourself in music/lyrics or just stuff in general. I wanted to keep the inner pages 2,7,3,6 simple so they did not come off as to busy. Within a CD booklet, the the lyrics are at some print you should still be able to read them. When it came to the subtle images throughout the booklet, I made images that fit the song and lyrics at hand. Example: Light On by Eric Balfour "There will be a light on the planet it for you." I decided to go with an image of planet to go hand and hand, while always using my color scheme which is a pink. Now when it comes to the Puppet by Alaska Thunderfuck, I decided to make the lyrics and the song title like they are held up like strings and made a creepy version of a puppet face that fades into the background. Pages 4 and 5, I wanted it to be a poster like image that you would be able to rip out and hang...

Second Collage Assignment "The Color Pink"

(Click to Enlarge) For this second collage, the color I chose was of course pink. I wanted to base it with neon colors after I made a light painting of the name Eric Balfour and it became my base for the rest of the contents and color tints to me collage. In this particular work, I wanted to express myself and what I am made up of. The first one was based around my favorite band in a whole and recycled band shirts, here I wanted to do a digital art. I used Adobe Photo-shop in creating this piece of work. Each image used was altered to the color pink as well as filters to enrich certain textures and words. I added a bow because I used to wear large bows a few years ago thus giving me my name Bowdacious. Which I use on as my Instagram username. Though instead of just picking a random bow, I went with one that had chevon texture that also goes along with the pink fur. I took an images of my fur boots and also fur cheetah cosmetic trunk. To describe what is all within thi...

Image & Text in Visual Art Third Assignment

I wanted to try my hand at another "flyer" per say. It is more to advertise my work. I think I kept it more on the simpler side this time. I kept the original font I use for Bowdacious, I added my logo saying, "I make the real, into real fake photo-manipulations." I tried not to use many fonts only two and I used the Instagram logo with my username underneath it so people know that is where they can go to look at my work. Followed by my name. For the girl I wanted to keep y mu signature look that I created within my first mixed media assignment with the artificial bratz eye and lips.

Make the Real into Real Fake

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