Final Julie Blackmon Example

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Photographer 1: Matthew Brandt

Matthew Brandt was born in 1982 in Los Angeles, CA which is his hometown and where he works. Brandt graduated from Cooper Union in New York in 2004, and then from UCLA in 2008. He plays with the very processes and materials of photography, creating startling interpretations of traditional landscapes. Brandt shoots Western landscapes, then, back home in the darkroom, soaks the prints in water he has collected from those same lakes. The longer he soaks his art the art the more abstract.

Photographer 2: Julie Blackmon 

Julie Blackmon was born in 1966 in Springfield, MO which is where she lives and works. Her work precisely choreographed domestic scenes apply an uncanny sense of balance, color composition, and proportion to households in various states of child-provoked disarray. Blackmon's photographs have won numerous awards from such institutions as the Santa Fe Center for Photography and Photospiva, and has appeared in group and solo exhibitions at galleries such as Robert Mann in New York. Her most recent award was in 2008 for American Photo's Emerging Photographer of 2008.

Photographer 3: Valérie Belin

Valérie Belin was born in 1964 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. She is a French artist who currently lives and works in Paris. Valérie Belin undertook her art education at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Bourges in 1983 to 1988. She also studied Philosophy of Art at the Paris-Panthéon-Sorbonne University, where she obtained a DEA qualification in 1989. In 1994 Valérie Belin exhibited her work for the first time in Paris. She displayed a series of black and white photographs of crystal objects. In 2009 the Peabody Essex Museum hosted her first personal exhibition in an American museum.

Illustrator and Scratchboard

Technique of scratchboard: Depending on the intent of the artist, several areas may be cleared out for layering with watercolors, airbrush, ink, color pencils, or acrylics. The layers are then scratched off one by one to create different shades of color that blend into and highlight certain parts of the image.

Sgraffito art: is a technique either of wall decor, produced by applying layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colors to a moistened surface, or in ceramics, by applying to an unfired ceramic body two successive layers of contrasting slip, and then in either case scratching so as to produce an outline drawing.

The two techniques are similar because they both involve contrasting.

Photoshop vs. Illustrator

Differences:
1. Illustrator is vector based while Photoshop is based on pixels.
2. Photoshop is used to manipulate photo/graphic images like changing the color, brightness or contrast. Illustrator is a drawing program and which handles using text.
3. Photoshop is mainly for photos and Illustrator is mainly for starting things from scratch.  

Street Art / Illusions

This video shows that child abuse is only seen by the child itself and no one else. The campaign is a billboard of a child who looks normal at adult height but at a child's height it shows the kid with bruises and a bloody lip. The sign at kids level said if this has happened to you call for help. This billboard is to help child who have gone through child abuse.

 Anamorphosis: An anamorphosis is a deformed image that appears in its true shape when viewed in some "unconventional" way. 

Examples of chalk art:

 

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