Lucas Blalocks Digital Toolkit, ART21 New York Close Up

Have you ever wanted a Photoshop tutorial from an artist Filmed in his Greenpoint studio, artist Lucas Blalock creates uncanny pictures using simple tools in Photoshop. Blalock demonstrates how he tweaks analog photographsall taken with a large format cameraby digitally erasing, masking, cloning, and drawing on scans of images. Approaching each picture as a game of enhancing visual relationships, Blalock preserves the clumsy quality of his alterations in a kind of slapstick full of pathos and whimsy. Col