Tuesday, January 11, 2011

About Risawn Studios

First off, what does Risawn mean? Well, pretty much nothing really, except for over the years it has come to be my alias across the vast internet. People have often times asked me what it stood for, and I never really had an answer for them, just that it was really only a made up word that I liked the sound of. And it stuck.

My name is Kami Donnelly, I am a self described artist and photographer, and the purpose of this blog is to showcase my various works for the public and offer my talents to those wishing to utilize them. A portfolio very much in a sense. For the purposes of this blog, the direction of my work will mostly focus on Photography, but I do intend on doing a little work on the side with my visual art as well.

Tools of the trade is various media with my art, I work with acrylics, oils and water color with paintings, graphite and charcoal, and have done a little pottery as well. I did do some printmaking, but unfortunately my resources do not currently allow for it. I have worked with some digital media, but my talent is by and large in traditional media.

Photography wise, my weapon of choice is my trusty Canon EOS 40D DSLR camera. Most of my focus on photography is whatever I find interesting, mostly action shots, events, animals, close ups, odd views, etc. Sometimes I will just go out and take pictures of anything that catches my eye. I am focusing more on portraits and group shots, but there is something also about the candid image of somebody in action that doesn't know their picture is being taken. It makes it especially interesting from the other side of the lens.