Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Ashley Johnson Under the Influence
Ashley Johnson
Under the Influence : Martin Grohs
https://www.behance.net/martingrohs
I changed the artist I chose to gather influence from, as I became more more interested in the body of work Obvious Desktopgraphy by Martin Grohs.
Here are my finished works inspired by him.
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Night Prowler - Marco
Night Prowler - Marco
Strip Mall Gothic II.5
I don't know, I kind of had an idea of capturing the ennui of the "strip-mall-Gothic" of American life. And how hanging out in parking lots, or in this case an elevated parking lot, is kind of a staple of depression? But life still moves below and you just kind of lose yourself watching the lights move.
At least, that's the narrative I had in mind.
Monday, April 2, 2018
Under The Influence : Nemanja Sekulic
Nemanja creates work with fantastical scenes and stories. these either come from adaptations of previous works or stories, like Sherlock Holmes, or exaggerations and fiction imposed on everyday life. He primarily works in photoshop and creates tutorials that show how he arrived at his final imagery. One Image I particularly enjoy is his work with "filling" rooms with water and thus creating underwater scenes. His understanding of color theory and how to adjust them using the color adjustment tool in Photoshop has had an immense impact on my photoshop workflow.
Under The Influence Inspiration: Cornelia Hediger
Cornelia Hediger is a Swiss artist working in the United States. I am intrigued by her Doppelgänger series, in which she digitally manipulates a twin version of herself. Her two selves are posed and shot in a variety of beautifully and meticulously set-up scenes. Each photograph creates a narrative that I find interesting. She places her selves in a framework that is broken up into bordered areas. The way that the image within each block interacts, blends into and also opposes the neighboring block of image space adds an incongruous yet visually-activating touch. I'm excited to see what conceptual direction I will take, and to get back to scene setting and self-portraiture.
under the influence- Michael Kasey
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| Maurizo Anzeri |
Miles Aldridge- using eclectic colors to enhance the lighting of garments and surrondings, miles has an eye for color and how to light it well, especially for working with models making them look almost mannequin like or flawless and surrounding them in interesting backgrounds.
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| Miles Aldridge |
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| Miles Aldridge |
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| Nick Knight |
Kate Hess- Under the Influence Inspiration
In Christoffer Relander’s series titled “We Are Nature,”
he combines digital images of human figures with images of
nature. By utilizing blending modes and
masks in photoshop, he created minimal portraits that portray the outline of a
figure. He replaced distinct features
with images of leaves, branches, and various natural elements to create a
photograph that is half portrait, half landscape. The negative space around the figure is void
of any texture or color which furthers the minimalist quality of the work while
also helping to define and emphasize the outline of the figure. Most of his portraits focus on hands and
faces, and the compositions are contained within the frame without touching the
edges. He has both black and white as
well as color work in his “We Are Nature” series; I enjoy his black and white
images more, so I plan to work in that mode.
I would like to emulate Relander’s style by using masking
and blending modes in photoshop to create portraits that link a figure to a
specific architectural site. This
architectural element, opposed to the nature elements found in Relander’s work,
will be one of the distinctions that prevents this project from being
“copy-cat.” I will use textural overlays
to create subtle backgrounds for the figures, instead of keeping my negative
space white as Relander did; in this way, I will stay true to my more
maximalist style.
Dana Brouillard_Artist Research
Under the
Influence
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| From the series "Wozu." © Claus Lucas |
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Magenta Massacre
printing plate,
2013-2014, aluminum printing plate with plastic bags, 30 x 41″.
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EunGyeol Lee, From The Series “The Magus”© Dongwook Lee, 2012 © Dongwook Lee
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Lee’s work draws me in because of the darker backgrounds with the illuminated figures. The textures in the body parts mimic the those found in the background. The parts that I would like to emulate is the repetition of the textures throughout the images. I also want to incorporate a figure with an appropriated light source. In the hands photograph I would change how harsh the lines are in the lighting transition.
Lucas Blalock is a photographer that uses Photoshop
in ways that repeat and manipulate certain objects. I am interested in mixing
an object and texture in my own piece. I would also like to explore the idea of
digital collaging in my own work. One thing that I would change in the Magenta
Massacre piece would be to clean up the stray marks of the target bag in the
bottom left corner of the piece.
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