RaikuArt

My name is Robert Kyle, and I am a visual artist in attendance at the University of Memphis for Fine art. I have grown up and lived in Memphis my whole life, and have also been interested in visual art from a very young age. I have always been able to draw well, however I could not have predicted where this simple interest would have taken me me to today. Currently I do work with painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, animation, sculpture and music. My work now is a combination of many of these which are coherently woven together. I set up my canvas to do an oil painting with my camera on a tripod in front of it, and take pictures as i create the painting. I then take these pictures and make a stop motion animation of the painting and set it to music. Therefore in a gallery setting there is an oil painting with a monitor playing the video on repeat next to it with headphones so that you can hear the music as well. It works well to capture the audience and a am infinitely grateful for my instructors who assisted me in figuring out this process. before the end of this year my website will be operational, in the meantime Facebook and my videos on Youtube will suffice. Under the \"website section\" i am going to post a link to one of my stop-motion videos. :)