portraitofaplace

Portrait of a Place For this unit, I decided to take pictures up by my extended family in Sturgeon Bay and around my house. I took most of my photographs in downtown Sturgeon Bay. Sturgeon Bay is a very old fashioned place. I wanted to evoke some of the more old and outdated things along with the newer and more modern parts of the area. Sturgeon Bay has always evoked a feeling of dullness to me. Most of my memories of that area is with gray skies and boring small talk. But downtown Sturgeon Bay had a little art shop and a restaurant which was pretty much my escape from relatives who thought of things very differently than me. Those two places evoked a personality of comfort and security. For these places natural lighting and available lighting best portrayed the warmth that I always associated with them. I would like to use image transfer to transfer my image onto canvas using ideas from this video: [] My concept is dealing with things that are more difficult to face. The imagery is going to be pretty and pleasing but also with a little bit of edgy-ness to show the difficulty because eventually, you’ll have to deal with the reality of your situation. The printmaking technique I chose will illustrate my concept because it will show the places I always designated as my escape and the classic canvas will do that. But to add the aspect of difficulty, I’m going to paint over the image. The lighting in my images will show the calmness in the images. The image will be an architectural image. This will be 12x12ish, as I still haven’t fully edited the image and gotten all the materials. (This image isn’t named) This image is very wistful, and this pretty much goes along wiht Christopher Burkett’s photographs of nature. His images are very happy and very pretty. Christopher Burkett is known for images of (mostly) trees and other nature right in the middle of the photograph. He uses leading lines a lot and completely ignores the rule of thirds. (Landscape) []  (This image isn’t named) Robert Frank shows a feeling of rushedness and hustling mood by this image. Robert is known for black and white and very vintage looking images. In this image Frank uses fill the frame with all the different things going on in the image. This image really attracted me because its so simplistic and very fast also.(Cityscape) []  “FunHouse” The mood evoked by this artist (which goes by Opacity) is very forelorn and sad. This building was falling apart and the photographer fell through some floors and named this image “FunHouse” as a bit a joke. This artist is known very well for for abandoned places and images like this. This image uses leading lines a lot.(Artitectural) []