Artist 25: Charlotte Caron

This artist is similar to me, because she combines photography and painting. But she does it differently. She takes photographed portraits of people and then paints animal faces on their faces.

The painting part tends to be very loose with lots of flyaway strokes that aren't connected to the photography at all. These tend to be very vertical and usually take up the whole vertical space of the piece. For the most part however the paintings do stay in the photographed faces.

These pieces remind me of two things. One is a game I play with my friends where we try to decide what animal best fits that person. The other is how my high school English teacher had us write down little observations about the world on note cards so that we could use them in our writing, because what might seem normal and commonplace to us often seems very clever and/or creative to others. It just needs to be shared. Her example of this was an observation one girl made that she saw faces in the front of cars; the eyes were headlights, and the bumpers were smiles and she imagined personalities based on those faces. Anyways, all of that just to say it's interesting to see how these kinds of little commonplace observations might be transformed not only into creative writing, but visual art as well.

 Here's a link to her website.