My name is Kelly Canova and my husband Courtney and I are artists living in the great city of DeLand, Florida. Recently I’ve seen artists all around the world who have found small ways to give back during this unprecedented season in our culture and I want to do my part. As a photographer, I know that the best gift I can give to my community is to document our new normal. Part art project, part community service, this experiment is about capturing what makes our town so special: the people. This series is a collection of family portraits that remind us that while we cannot control the things happening out in the world, we can find peace and joy in the moments we spend in our homes with the people we love most. l love this town, and I want to gift you with the memories of these long days and nights spent with your loved ones.
DeLand residents: Let me know if you would like to take part in our project! The photos are a gift and images will be sent to your family digitally. Each shoot will take about 5 minutes and will be shot from at least 10 feet away, applying the current CDC approved guidelines for social distancing. Dress any way you like – fancy, as you are, or in costume. This is for you, so whatever fits you and your family works. Thank you! And be well. xo
If you are a DeLand resident and want to take part in our project, please sign up here:
Artist’s Statement As an artist and photographer, I watch light and beauty in everything I do. How light lands on a subject and how beauty is found in the lines of an interesting face. I have always loved the shapes and beauty in flowers, the colors, the emotions they evoke. I love to put together a drawing with the dimension and depth of flowers. These designs come from the heart, this art is fleeting as the flowers wither. Like a good movie or a great painting, I want these Drawings with Flowers to take both the subject and the viewer to a more vivid and meaningful appreciation of their world.
Having my own art gallery show and opening is a dream come true for me. So much fun to have my work at Blake Elliott’s Salon and Gallery this past month! It meant so much to have my family and friends there to support and encourage my work. Prints and commissioned work are still available! Contact me at kelly@thecanoavsphotography.com
Artist’s Statement
As an artist and photographer, I watch light and beauty in everything I do. How light lands on a subject and how beauty is found in the lines of an interesting face. I have always loved the shapes and beauty in flowers, the colors, the emotions they evoke. I love to put together a drawing with the dimension and depth of flowers. These designs come from the heart, this art is fleeting as the flowers wither. Like a good movie or a great painting, I want these Drawings with Flowers to take both the subject and the viewer to a more vivid and meaningful appreciation of their world.
I met Nicole Pace first on Model Mayhem, a really talented hair and make-up artist who wanted to collaborate – I was thrilled! It took us about 6 months for us to finally get together – she had some amazing ideas. I thought it would be fun to work with a fashion designer as well as to showcase Nicole’s work. I met Alejandra Valiant for Ale G Design who had some beautiful clothing and was on board for the shoot at Orange Studio in downtown Orlando. Tying up the perfect day was gorgeous model Julia Vivian who made all our work look so lovely! So much fun to play all day and bring out my favorite passion of all things fashion. Thank you so much Nicole, Ale and Julia for making this happen. Can’t wait for our next shoot! xo
Orlando Fashion Design and Photography by The Canovas Photography
The best thing about personal work is that it is all ours. We have only ourselves to please. We think it is so important for all artists to do work for themselves, we work so hard for others: make sure their portraits, weddings and designs are all what they want, perfectly done. We love what we do and take so much pride in our work. So now we are sharing some our more creative work. I wanted to try some moody black and white portraits and Courtney wanted to play with triple exposures and montage art. Thank you to our friend and fellow photographer – beautiful model Kaitlin. See her work here.
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Encouraged to draw and paint as a child, I was fascinated with art and, more specifically, the idea of its process from a very early age. Over the years, working as a mural artist, fine artist, illustrator, graphic designer, and recently as a fine arts photographer and college professor, I have been able to draw upon skills learned in one medium to enhance the others. I approach projects first as a study of the elements or characters that will be portrayed through the work. I am a life-long student of history, particularly Florida history, and much of my work emphasizes historic components. Studying the project, as well as the subject, working on a visual solution, and then executing the final idea are the elements that I incorporate into a work of art. My work, in all mediums, is created with the ultimate objective of telling a story – giving voice to a visual image. Most of the time, the work is a montage of images that carry out a single idea. Commercial and fine art share the common impetus, which is to identify a need – what affects people – and excite and entice the consumer or patron through visual representation. I am particularly drawn to large-scale work because it has the ability to put the viewer into the action or event.
Award winning street booth for showing paintings in area Arts Festivals.
Digital layout for a mural design. I’m not sure how many images I put into the layout of it but I can easily say it was many.
After the layout was created I went back to a photo of the wall and placed it into the image to show what the image would look like if the mural had been painted on to the wall.
Photoshop layout concept of the mural as if it had been painted on to the wall.
Oviedo Mall store window.
Overall illustration for the store front window.
Digital painting attached to the existing window.
Detail image of the digital painting done for the mall window.
Digital painting.
Digital montage of four different images on the left to create a collage of images that flow together as one.
Final images put together into one montage.
Another example of montaging three images into one. The jug was is dropped into a sky background with a texture added to the entire composition.
Final images of the jug on a sky background.
Digital image is created with a Wacom tablet
A painting done on a 4’x6′ canvas.
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