ORIE T. SHAFER JR
B&O Engine No. 8, Garrett Station
https://www.kpcnews.com/thestar/article_9cb88b7f-a104-5b89-97b6-7e2c00bd7bf3.html Comedian Jim Gaffigan
https://www.westlafayette.in.gov/egov/apps/document/center.egov?view=item;id=5807 |
Kay
TheRide Bus No. 17, Building of Design
Mother Kirsten Row-Shafer
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Orie Shafer is an artist based in Indiana. He grew up in Indiana and began taking art when he flunked out of Latin class in high school. Although digital photography has been a significant portion of the work he has made, he also makes pottery and paints in his at-home studio. He has a beautiful wife, two sons, and quite a few grandchildren (one of which is me). He has also taught high school and college level art classes in the past.
His work has many layers, both digitally and physically. He uses multiple digital images and oil paints to enhance and create abstract images. The textures of the paint and digital images together make for very compelling works of art. His work also evolves over time as he continues to expand and edit the images. He also uses double exposure in his images to make them more surreal. The abstract designs in some of his photographs also add to their depth and meaning. In some of his other work he layers images of people and places with his paintings to make surreal imagery.
A lot of Orie’s work is simply meant to show his love for making it. Some of it though, is for his family and meant to show his love and hopes for the members of it. Some of his work is also inspired by the work of his past students, or rather the aftermath of their work. He sometimes uses pictures of parts of the tables his students worked on and used the textures of the paints and glues left behind in his images. He has also done some commissions like B&O Engine No. 8, Garrett Station.
Because I know Orie Shafer personally, he has not only influenced my work in this project, but in other works of art I have made and my life correspondingly. I used a double exposure technique to achieve the look of some of his photography. I used paint to physically add details and abstract designs to the images. I also made my images similar to his by painting in a similar abstract style to his. I then used double exposure with my paintings and my photos to make a very similar image.
His work is a bit more vibrant than mine. We also have differences in our painting styles which is to be expected. To make my images similar to his, though, I made sure to use real paint (instead of brushes in photoshop) to achieve the same look of his images. He also tends to paint over parts over his subject to enhance it so I added an artistic filter to get a similar look. As an artistic choice, I decided to have a faded edge on my images to create a type of frame for my image even though he does not usually include that in his images.
My first image is of me. Although Orie's image Jennifer isn't of himself, I still wanted to do a self portrait in the style of his image. TheRide Bus No. 17, Building of Design is an image of a street I used to walk down a lot to go downtown just as the Garrett Station was a place many people walked through to get to other places. Orie's Comedian Jim Gaffigan is of a person he likes, so I decided to use a picture of my mom to make its counterpart Mother Kirten Row-Shafer. Over all I had really nice time taking and editing these images. It was also a really great opportunity to learn more about my Grandfather's work than what I had already learned from him and to see what he had to say about his work to people at museums and online.
https://garrettmuseumofart.org/artist-spotlight-interview-orie-shafer/
https://www.orieshafer.com/statement.html
https://www.alma.edu/live/news/1504-gallery-exhibit-combines-digital-technology-with
His work has many layers, both digitally and physically. He uses multiple digital images and oil paints to enhance and create abstract images. The textures of the paint and digital images together make for very compelling works of art. His work also evolves over time as he continues to expand and edit the images. He also uses double exposure in his images to make them more surreal. The abstract designs in some of his photographs also add to their depth and meaning. In some of his other work he layers images of people and places with his paintings to make surreal imagery.
A lot of Orie’s work is simply meant to show his love for making it. Some of it though, is for his family and meant to show his love and hopes for the members of it. Some of his work is also inspired by the work of his past students, or rather the aftermath of their work. He sometimes uses pictures of parts of the tables his students worked on and used the textures of the paints and glues left behind in his images. He has also done some commissions like B&O Engine No. 8, Garrett Station.
Because I know Orie Shafer personally, he has not only influenced my work in this project, but in other works of art I have made and my life correspondingly. I used a double exposure technique to achieve the look of some of his photography. I used paint to physically add details and abstract designs to the images. I also made my images similar to his by painting in a similar abstract style to his. I then used double exposure with my paintings and my photos to make a very similar image.
His work is a bit more vibrant than mine. We also have differences in our painting styles which is to be expected. To make my images similar to his, though, I made sure to use real paint (instead of brushes in photoshop) to achieve the same look of his images. He also tends to paint over parts over his subject to enhance it so I added an artistic filter to get a similar look. As an artistic choice, I decided to have a faded edge on my images to create a type of frame for my image even though he does not usually include that in his images.
My first image is of me. Although Orie's image Jennifer isn't of himself, I still wanted to do a self portrait in the style of his image. TheRide Bus No. 17, Building of Design is an image of a street I used to walk down a lot to go downtown just as the Garrett Station was a place many people walked through to get to other places. Orie's Comedian Jim Gaffigan is of a person he likes, so I decided to use a picture of my mom to make its counterpart Mother Kirten Row-Shafer. Over all I had really nice time taking and editing these images. It was also a really great opportunity to learn more about my Grandfather's work than what I had already learned from him and to see what he had to say about his work to people at museums and online.
https://garrettmuseumofart.org/artist-spotlight-interview-orie-shafer/
https://www.orieshafer.com/statement.html
https://www.alma.edu/live/news/1504-gallery-exhibit-combines-digital-technology-with