joseph crone

“My intention is to explore, through hyper-realistic drawing, the cinematic narratives and defining visual styles associated with classic film noir. Putting an emphasis on low-key lighting, plot, and mood, each suspended moment is then uniquely scripted and captured through the camera’s eye. From here, I render the previously filmed still by using colored pencil on frosted acetate, a lithographic technique that I have adapted and fine-tuned over the past few years. The smooth, semi-transparent quality of the acetate enables the colored pencil to achieve not only a wide range of textural detail but also higher levels of contrast and saturation as often seen in early cinema.

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Combining these elements of technique along with the genre’s ability to engage the audience helps to compose my vision of cinematic nostalgia, which I plan to further develop and capture with each subsequent work.”