Alton Brown as art

A few months ago I received an email through my Flickr account from someone asking to use a some of the pictures my Alton Brown photo collection in a project. I was amazed that someone would think these photos were good enough to help in anyway. The artist selected AB a the subject for a maquette project and need a lot of photos at different angles of him.

I happily offered my photos to help out. But I did place one caveat on their use--I wanted to place the artwork on the blog.

Thankfully, the artist agreed.

The artist's name is Kenya Thompson. She is a senior (or was, she is slated to graduate this month!) at Savannah College of Art and Design.

Kenya explained the project was to build sculpting skills to make maquettes for mimicking likenesses, action figures, and concepts for animation, video games, and film. For the first assignment she had to pick a celebrity and try to copy his/her likeness.

And why did she select AB?

Kenya said: "However, the main reason I picked Alton because not only have I always admired him as a chef, his principles in the kitchen, and his overall wish to demystify cooking techniques and food as a whole, but he is quite the personality and is always talking with his hands. In short, he's just one cool dude. Thus I knew he would make for an interesting sculpt and I could find an subtle but unique pose that would bring out Alton's personality."



Kenya is working on developing her own website, so stop by and see what she has www.kdthompson.com