Monday, April 23, 2012

Artist Biography

Katie Locke finds joy and fulfillment in exploring her creative side, from charcoal drawings to photography she has formed a love for it all. Katie likes to capture and create moments that have significant meaning to her and hope that will reflect to her viewer.

Katie became an artist at a young age, perfecting her art skills by putting value into her coloring book pictures and carefully making small villages out of play dough. A number of events through out her life formed not only a love but an undying need to keep art in her life, always.

Giving depth and value to art projects as early as the coloring book years was credited to her family as her older sister showed her how “old girls drew” and her mother trusted Katie in her middle school years to take the reins on the design end of her mother’s published “How To” books. Katie found this to be engaging and took art classes through all of her years of school. Katie really found that she couldn’t live without art when she decided to go for a nursing major. She took a drawing class on the side and found that all of her love and work went towards that class rather than her other studies. The next semester Katie new something had to change, she had to go with her love of art and fulfill a career in it. The support given by her loving husband, a current BYU student in advertising, was gratifying for her new decision. The two work off each other for advice, criticism and support.

Katie is now found creating all sorts of art from yarn designs on her living room wall to fulfilling her current school education in Graphic Design. Katie has found photography to be a perfect medium to all realms of art. It grasps and collects great design, inspiring emotions and touching moments.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Portraits

These past few months I have really formed not only a love for photography but portrait photography specifically. Here are a few samples of the ones I have captured so far this year.











Inspired by Richard Avedon

For an assignment in my photography class we were to use our favorite photographer as inspiration to create a similar image. 
After shuffling through a few favorite artists I decided to go with Richard Avedon. 
Richard Avedon is known for his skilled variety of portraits from high fashion photography to mental hospital patients, he has a touch that brings out everyones personality and beauty.
For my shoot I used my favorite model, my husband. Isn't he so handsome?
I did a mixture of Avedon's works by having him dressed in high fashion but used the white background Avedon used when he traveled the West and captured various people in their own environments.








This was the photograph I turned in. Avedon was known for leaving the black film around the edge, so I found in appropriate to recreate that as well.

Retro take for Sara's sake.


These retro styled photographs are inspired by my little sister Sara, from her beauty to her eccentric actions towards life, the colors couldn’t match her personality more perfectly.







Artist Statement


cre·a·tiv·i·ty/ˌkrēāˈtivitē/
Noun: The use of the imagination or original ideas.
Verb: creating something new that has some kinds of value.

From a young age I knew that I wanted to always encircle my life with creativity. I started by forming things through collected materials and made my own forms of beauty. Today I still find myself enjoying the simplistic joy in creating new forms. I find life as a time to explore your creativity. I am continually taken back by the world I live in from each beautiful moment I have to every living, captivating thing that surrounds me everywhere I go.

My inspiration is found anywhere I allow myself to find it, which is why I was taken back by my new discovered love for photography and all of the creative ways there are to more accurately capture the beauty that surrounds me, everyday.

The photographs that I am sharing with you that I have recently taken were all inspired pieces by either the personality of the particular person or from ideas presented by talented artists that I admire.