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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The Hudson Valley Inn Logos & Business Card

NEW NEW NEW When thinking about the design concepts for The Hudson Valley in, I did take into consideration for the scenery it provided for city dwellers. Although I still wanted to give it a classy cozy type feel also. I kept a color scheme of black and red, I figured a dark red would be a nice contrast to the black but also pleasing to the eye and also easy to read. I know a typical business card is horizontal, but when putting everything together, I felt as though my designs looked better in the a vertical manor. Plus I believe it gives it more of a personal touch. I made sure to have the back of the business card readable and neat, all a business card needs is basic information, and in this case information of the restaurant manager. I also made it a little authentic by having Maines actually zip code. I also added a personal touch and added a filter to the card as a hold, like a card stock with some light ridges. The Hudson Valley Inn Logos: The reason that there...

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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