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Boxing Fight Poster

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What are your most significant areas of artistic growth? What artistic struggles did you learn from?  As you pursue art for pleasure or maybe even as a future career, what subjects or new approaches would you like to try?

I'm going to attempt to simultaneously avoid making this too generic or too abstract, but the inarguably most significant area of my growth artistically is a sort of revival in the section of my brain that processes things with a more artistic lens. Little moments of my day become highlights when I see some scene or object in front of me, and have to take a picture to see if it's something that can be drawn. I used to engage in artistic creation quite often all throughout my childhood, but it sort of disappeared at some point going into high school. It's really something that I'm glad I was able to reenter and start back up again, because it's really a joy that I had completely forgotten about.

My phraseology here makes me feel like I'm a retiree who started up painting again after finishing their career, but I suppose both have similar themes of maturity and realization. I'm glad that I decided to take this class, even though it was near the tail end of my high school career.

The biggest focus I'm going to try and pursue is trying to use varied techniques and mediums; I feel I have this problem in music as well, where I stick with the materials and processes I'm intimately familiar with, and sort of artificially limit myself. It likely stems from an obsession with an end goal or product, then not putting in the time to better learn all of the steps and little details to properly achieve it.

My goal in the short term is to be able to draw faces in colored mediums as well as I can with the aid of the monochrome nature of pencil.

I was very happy to be in your class this semester! Have a good break!

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In a separate text box on Padlet, please explain the ideas and/or process of your artwork.  Why did you decide to use text/words the way you did?  Explain the choices you made in composition, material, and subject matter.  How did your ideas develop and change as you worked?  If you could change something about your final artwork, what would that be and why?

The concept for my text project was to create a mock up for the packaging and surrounding aesthetic elements of an album or CD. With a lot of physical music that I consume, lyric sheets or more art on the inside or back of the album are often included. My goal was to have the text of my project be the song lyrics, and to have different contrasting drawings to accompany them. The black and white idea for the cover came to me through the process of making the insert drawings, because I ended up alternating between making them on black and white paper. Ultimately, this element let to the symbolism it embodies: the contrast between the lyrical and instrumental aspects of music. Words unaccompanied by instrumentation, as I have written out on the separate drawings, can end up feeling very inanimate, whereas music consisting solely of instrumentation inherently disallows for the insertion of more acute meaning and message into the final product. Neither are bad on their own (poetry and classical music, for example), but the combination of the two is very satisfyingly complementary, similar to black and white contrasting designs, and is one of the main reasons i enjoy music as an art form to the degree that I do.

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Before Christmas

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The Nightmare

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Photo Shoot - Chair and Fabric (9/26/18)

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Photo Shoot - Chair and Fabric (9/26/18)

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Photo Shoot - Chair and Fabric (9/26/18)

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Photo Shoot - Chair and Fabric (9/26/18)

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~GHOST CHARLES~

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Photo Shoot - Chair and Fabric (9/26/18)

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Photo Shoot - Chair and Fabric (9/26/18)

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Photo Shoot - Chair and Fabric (9/26/18)

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Photo Shoot - Chair and Fabric (9/26/18)

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Observational - Continuous Line Drawing (9/27/18)

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Observational - Continuous Line Drawing (9/27/18)

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Observational - Negative Space Drawing (9/27/18)

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Observational - Negative Space Drawing (9/27/18)