THESIS: "This photorealist collage title Heartbeat will focus on a self reflection portrait of my art career."
PRESENTATION FOR FRIDAY:
PROPOSAL DOC: HERE
When coming up with an idea for my capstone portfolio, I wanted my piece to be a "fine art" digital piece. I knew this would be a tough subject to convey, but it would challenge me to do more than what I have done in the past. I remember in Advanced Digital Imaging that Bryce had shown us an artist, Bert Monroy, and his infamous digital painting of Times Square. I reflected on this throughout the years and the ways of which he created the piece and decided this is the technique I wanted to use for my final project. I also went to shows and museums with photorealism pieces and looked closely in detail and studied how they were creating the realistic detail with just paint and a brush. It all boiled down to the way they say shadows and lights of a surface and they transformed these ideas into their paintings.
Bert Monroy's Times Square
OKCMOA 2013 Photorealism Revisited Show
Technique: For my capstone project I wanted to capture the same photorealistic in these paintings, but to digitally render my piece using images taken with my camera and collaging the images in Photoshop.
Concept: A heart takes blood in from the veins and oxygenates and sends it back out into the body to be used, and then the processed is repeated. The information and knowledge I have learned throughout my educational career as a graphic designer is much like the process of the heart. I have been taking the information given to me in my classes at RSU and throughout my art education and storing it. Then, it is repurposed and revitalized and I add my style to it and give it back to the world to see or to be used. Throughout this process, I learn more details and things so that my heart is full of knowledge and is being circulated out into the world often.
Idea: I want to build a heart that looks real and shows the information being taken in, such as the pen tool, pop art inspirations, painting, line or strokes, ink, paint, ideas, etc that have been essential to me learning as an artist. These icons or symbols will be filling the inside of the heart, which a corner will be open for the viewer to see these things. Then the reinvented or finished piece, will be the physical piece of work I create for the capstone review.
