Journal

Final Project: Retrato Familiar (Research Journal)

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References:

Sebastiao Salgado (portraiture; the way he shoots black and white images; attention to detail; using digital manipulation to make blacks darker and whites lighter)

 

Henrik Uldalen (using paint to create and destroy portraits; use of color)

 

Dan Quintana (layering of textures, colors, and different images onto one another; color tones)

 

 

Art Historical Precedence/Contemporary Works:

Grant Wood – American Gothic (gives a humorous tone to portrait although painted traditionally; message is clear to the audience)

 

Sara Greenberger Rafferty – Gloves Off (use of collage techniques and layering; distorted and colorful final images)

 

Francis Picabia – Transparencies (so much layering; great use of color; has sort of graphic feel to it even though it’s all painted)

 

Sketches:

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Notes:

  • using acrylic paint to distort faces, colorful
    • maybe use acrylic ink to distort the room, paint drips from the top

 

Samples:

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Project Three: Brainstorming.

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The edited/constructed image.

  • Dark, creepy, odd mood.
    • Maybe using image from Romanticism [ie. Gericault/Goya] and recreating.
      • “The Kiss”, “Anatomical Fragments”, “The Raft”, Goya witches
    • using WB filter/color gels?
    • color correcting in photoshop?
  • Body paint on people.
    • Use green to edit later in photoshop?
      • adding dead skin/rot/blood
    • bright colors on skin
    • alternating profile on body parts
  • fashion posing
    • dramatic eye makeup
    • odd angles of legs/arms
  • background
    • black
    • smoke
    • animals [play with scale]
      • worms, centipedes, spiders, ants
    • paper
      • making shapes, swirls, geometric patterns
    • city image?
  • fake flowers
  • holding bronze sculpture

 

images to keep in mind…

Nature.

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These photos were taken in order to learn how to adjust my camera quickly according to what I want to shoot. I alternated from stagnant shots to attempting to shoot moving. It helped me figure out how to adjust for lighting, speed of the object, and how to properly hold a camera.

All the images are unedited and use automatic White Balance Settings.