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What Themes/Ideas Will be Central in my Work?

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What Themes/Ideas Will be Central in my Work?

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For this semester, I want to focus on creating work that revolves around my everyday life and thoughts. I plan on creating pieces from a first person perspective, that perspective being my own. I would like to try and experiment with creating art drawn both from observation and imaginative to hopefully give the viewer an idea of the type of person I am. In the past, I made self portraits that are drawings of me from someone else’s point of view. I want to eliminate the third person point of view.

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What Medium Will I Use and How I will Make My Work?

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What Medium Will I Use and How I will Make My Work?

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On my first few pieces, I plan on using graphite/pencil and then transition into using charcoal, ink/pen, colored pencil, and possibly oil paint. In terms of size, my work generally ranges from 11”x14” - 16”x20”.

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For my concept, I’ve had several different ideas on how I would like my work to come out. In past work, I focus more on realism over abstraction however, I would like to add a little bit more to my work this semester. I plan on some of the pieces having more surreal qualities than others but I still want to keep it cohesive. There aren’t any artists that have directly inspired my idea but it is an idea that I got partly thanks to some of my peers in prior art classes.

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In my artwork, detail is one thing I focus on more than anything else regardless of concept or stylistic approach. This semester, I think I am capable of creating 7-8 highly detailed drawings. 7-8 is a number that’s ambitious for me with the size that I’m planning to use

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In 5 years, I could see myself working in an art museum in either Baltimore of Washington D.C. In 10 years, hopefully establish a solid career foundation to start a business that revolves around my work. In my experience, I know art can be time consuming so I’d want a work/life balance that isn’t too overwhelming. In terms of how my work would be shown, I can see it being displayed on clothing (graphic hoodie/shirt) or even just hanging in someone’s house. If there were any artists who’s career I’d like to emulate it would be either Kehinde Wiley or Chuck Close, though I’m leaning more to Wiley’s side because I find his work more personal to me. Close’s work however, stands out to me because it’s done so well on a large scale. Many of his pieces are also extremely unique.