Artist Statement

Ever since I was little I always found enjoyment in painting. Whether it was finger painting, water colors or acrylic painting I had always loved the way the paint showed up on the paper or canvas. Looking at paintings of landscapes has always interested me. I love the concept of someone taking something that is already so beautiful and turning it into a different form of beauty. Last year I painted my first landscape painting for my dad for fathers day. It was very special for him since the picture was of one of his favorite views in the world, the top of mount Sunapee looking onto the lake. Since my family owns a house on the lake, this specific view is very special to all of us. By painting that, not only was I creating beautiful artwork but there was a lot of meaning behind it and that made it very special. Ever since then I have loved painting landscapes and things that are important to me.

Name Drawings

symbolic portrait

Process Reflection #2

In this past week I have accomplished many things on my independent project. I now have a sense of exactly how it is going to look when it is finished and I feel really good about it. I have accomplished creating the background for the lighthouse and I feel that if I keep going the way I have been, this painting will turn out really good. A challenge that I have faced is trying to get exactly the color I want when mixing paints. It usually takes me a while and a lot of paint to be able to get the color exactly how I want it. I am planning to start working on the larger, closer up objects. I am going to use a lot of detail and take my time to make the rest of it look perfect.

Process Reflection #1

This week I had accomplished finishing up all of my projects that were previously assigned. I had done my last finishing touches on my sculpture and now I am just waiting for it to dry. I also had finished my symbolic portrait that I have been working on for weeks now. Out of all the projects I would say that I spent the most time on the symbolic portrait so it is a big accomplishment for it to be done. Also I started getting the canvas ready for my next project, where I will paint a picture for my parents. A major challenge that I faced was deciding when I was finished with the symbolic portrait. I had no idea if i should keep going or if I had found a good place to stop. For me I have a hard time being satisfied with my artwork so it was hard to determine when I was done. Another challenge was deciding what I was going to do for my independent project. It is always hard for me to think of something new to do and be creative. Next week I plan to work on my individual project.

Art 21 #3

Mike Kelley always knew he was going to be an artist. He focuses a lot on ritual. Kelley likes to work with stuffed animals and put them together in certain ways to create a story. He enjoys to get peoples responses since they are always different than what he was expecting. Most people thought that his work was representing abuse that had happened in his life. Kelley had no intentions of that but for some reason that is how it came across to people so he took that and incorporated it into his other artwork.

Hiroshi Sugimoto uses the windows and shading to create interesting photographs. He first showed in interest in photography when he visited a lot of 20th century architecture to take pictures. Sugimoto likes to play with the positives and negatives of certain pictures.

Art 21 artists number 2

Arturo Herrera likes to experiment with collage. While he works he has a bunch of paper all over his work area that has been piled up over the years from his collages. He was very poor so he used what resources he had. He is interested in the fact that a big picture with so much detail can be created out of different pieces of unwanted paper and color. He likes to take pictures of his drawings and then put the film into water and see how it turns out. He likes playing with materials and not knowing how things are going to come out exactly.

Kiki Smith likes to create sculptures that tell stories. She has many sculptures of people doing certain things and some just standing there. Kiki likes to create certain people to remember them. She had made death masks of members of her family so they would continue to live on after they had died.