Portrait of Alison Tucker
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Alison Tucker

About the Artist

I am an artist from the Clear Spring area in Maryland. Currently I am attending West Virginia University to get a degree in Art Education and Photography.  I have had a love of art since I was very young, and in the past six years have been exploring photography. My camera hardly leaves my side, I document life and try to capture the moments that matter. As I do this I am also aware of how a photo can be malipulated in programs like Photoshop and Lightroom. With this in mind I will use everyday images to create abstract works of art in Photoshop.    

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Artist's Statement

My prefered medium is photography and digital editing through Photoshop. I work to replicate the illusion and look created by kaliedoscopes through may different methods. Using Photoshop I am able to duplicate on aspect of a photo in order to reproduce it multiple times which leaves a kaliedoscopic effect. I have been working on this style going on three years, and as I go the process evolves and chnages. I have recently began a study in vortography which uses a prism to alter the subject being shot. With this style the malipulation is happening in the camera with no heavy post editing to get duplicated effects.

Featured Work

Photos

This an image I created in photoshop through reflecting certain aspects of the original image. I then isolated parts of the image I liked and used them as details throughout the image. After doing all of this I simply amplified the saturation to get the bright and intense coloring.
The world looks different shot through a prismatic lens. With the help of a filter added to my camera I was able to explore the long lost photographic style of Vortography. Here I have shot the mural along the cultural trail in Hagerstown.
This is an artwork made through the use if photoshop. I take one image to create a kaleidoscopic like rendering. The original photograph was of the streets of New York City. I used photoshop to repeat certain elements, and later added a second layer with the same image only smaller, a new color, and tilted at a different angle.