Presentations TODAY

Hello everyone, It's December 9 the day you have all been preparing for. Please arrive a bit early no later than 9.30 to load your presentation to the imac in the Main Gallery.

Looking Forward to your Presentations.

Donald Reddick_Tom Every

Tom Every (A.K.A. Dr. Evermore) is a metal sculpture artist from Sauk City, WI.  His work is presented at his personal art park. These works are mostly consistent of a Sci Fi nature, but there are others that are more in the realm of fantasy. His most well known sculpture is the Forevertron. He has not been an influence for too long. It wasn't until recently, in the last 3 years, that I became familiar with Mr. Every.  Considering that I am very interested in metal sculpture as my potential favorite of mediums I found that choosing Tom Every was the best of influences. Particularly because of my own personal love of Sci Fi and Fantasy.

Forevertron

50'x120'x60'

Bird Band

Tea House Gazebo

Richard D'Onofrio_Barry Mcgee

Richard D'Onofrio_Barry Mcgee

I've known of Barry Mcgee's work for about two years now. I was drawn to his style of work when i first came across it. Although not till this year that I've noticed his work had influenced me exponentially as I've watch my work evolve more to resembling his style of work. Barry Mcgee rose out of the graffiti boom in the San Francisco Bay area in the early nineties. His work draws heavily from what he calls the urban experience/everyday live frustrations. -(Which I like to base my work on.)  In doing this he creates bizarre faces which dominate abstract background with drips and odd patterns. To me his images are very iconic they stand out then most other artists work this is what I one hope my artwork to be viewed as.

Carolyn Searls _Gerard Way

Gerard Way is a singer/song writer/artist from New Jersey, Although best he is best known as the lead singer for the rock band My Chemical Romance he has done many visual arts related side projects,such as cartoon clips and even has his own comic book series.He also designed all the album art for his band.

MaryBethHietapelto_AlexGrey

I saw Alex Grey's artwork on all the Tool cd's ever since I was a kid. I always loved the art (and the music) and thought it was really inspiring. When I started looking up more of his work, I liked it even more than the stuff Tool used for cd's and band shirts. His paintings are massive! Overwhelmingly spiritual, and cultural explorations of what it feels like to be a human.

      I always loved this one. Probably the first piece that I fell in love with.
 The pieces hes made about birth and the connection between a mother and child inspire me a lot. I like how he paints people as if nudity isn't nudity, but just what we are. He takes nudes a step further, and sheds our skin. Are his subjects, black, white, old, young?

I encourage anyone who likes his stuff, to check out his website
alexgrey.com

MaryBethHietapelto_FirstDraft

Art is a place where you can be free. The feeling of freedom is like no other; energy with no boundaries, a body with no clothes, nature that is pure and unharmed, a blank piece of paper. I think feeling free and being free are ideas that I want to communicate. To me, feeling free is a lie, a half way thing, that this society will allow. I want my art to push people away from being okay with a feeling and inspire them to chase after what they don't even know they can have, truth, happiness, freedom, harmony, balance, and love.

Art is a place where you can be free, and that is why I choose to pursue art.

Drew Cossa_Edmund McMillen

I've known about Edmund Mcmillen for a very long time now. But I don't think his art started to really influence mine until just recently.

The expressiveness of his characters is something I try very hard to keep up with.

The first game I played by him was Super Meat Boy. An extremely hard platformer that is a homage to older ones like Super Mario and Sonic The Hedgehog. During the games hand-drawn cutscenes their is lots of sadistic and expressive humor that I find really appealing. It had been a long time since I was so charmed by a videogame. Imitation is the best form of flattery and a huge hint of his style is forever ingrained in my work.

Im a sucker for characters that have a missing eye or limb. This has always been one of my favorite pieces by this guy.

I remember seeing this character and wanting to draw more super-villians. Also look at that shading, LOOK AT IT.

I love this method of shading. I knew this was the direction I wanted to go in almost the instant I saw it.

Again, great example of an expressive face. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUY9iF7lAGc <-- A cutscene from Super Meat Boy that does a good job showing what he does best. 

http://digitalportfolio2013.blogspot.com/2013/09/character-select-2013-prisma-color.html <-- My work samples. I recommend taking a look if you want to see the parallels between his work and mine. 

cwicker_luigi serafini

I just resently heard of Luigi Serafini an Italian architect, illustrator and industrial designer of the late 70's. Luigi Serafini made a book, (codex) an encyclopedia of unknown, bizarre , parallel world. It’s about 400 pages long. The entire book is written in an unknown language. Luigi Serafini devoted 30 months of his life to create this masterpiece and from what I have been able to find is the only one of its kind by Luigi Serafini I haven't seen any other work by him threw research online. I absolutely love the illustrations in this book and the philosophy behind it I feel it oddly resembles my work in areas and a weird relation to an alien world which iv always been very fond of.

Amanda_HajinBae

I have drawn much inspiration from Hajin Bae, an illustrator whose blog I found on Tumblr. She most often does line-drawn portraits, and though she tries not to stray too far away from basic characteristics of the human face, the level of detail and care that she puts into her work is not hard to notice, and I find her patience very admirable.

http://www.almostreal.me/2012/05/28/introducing-soulist-aurora-illustrator-seoul/

NickS_Artist

 William Blake

He's known to most by his poems but I've always really admired his illustrations. Blake mostly did prints with a technique that he developed, then followed that with watercolor on top by either him or his wife. That made each book he produced have a soul of their own by never painting two the exact same way. I enjoy how creative, loose and dreamlike these images are. They are quite organically balanced within the composition in a literal sense, and also a figurative balance through his Christian and Pagan themes.

Linda_ Caitlin Hackett

Caitlin Hackett

I fell in love with her work when i randomly bought Hi-Fructose Vol. 17 magazine at a bookstore, and it was an awesome find of a modern inspiring art. She is a huge inspiration for me to become an illustrator. Her large scale works pushes me to remove myself from the tiny frames and palm size works that i typically create.  I love how her works gives such an peacefully haunting enjoyment with her morbid mutilated part animal part human figures. 

In Memory

The Escapist

Vulpes Masquerade

Insatiable

Ashes to Ashes

Links:

Works

The Hidden People Interview 

Hi-Fructose Article

Prints

FB Page

Jovana_artist

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres is my inspiration for creating photography, I learned about Jean from my high school humanities class, his work inspired me to take a true appropriation for detail, Jean's painting's are very detailed in the method of his brush strokes. My favorite paintings out of the hundred paintings that Jean painted is Mademoiselle Caroline Riviere, when I first came across that painting I was flabbergasted by the amount of detail and the color in the painting I find is very beautiful and elegant.

Mademoiselle Caroline Riviere

Linda_ First Draft

Artist Statement:

I didn't choose the artist life, i was born to create art. 

Growing up, I've always struggled to verbally express the difficulties I had with others, I quickly picked up a crayola and created worlds of wonders that I bounced to and from. Currently, I've become much more passionate about being a woman and exploring what it means to truly be free within my works. With the huge movements of feminism currently taking hold of this 'mans world,' I've felt it was my job to express  my meaning of being a feminist; to become more of a woman than what the history books have written. I love the sexuality and the beauty of being a woman. I explore by experimenting with different  techniques and mixing  different mediums to announce the multiple wonders of the types of women I've known. I'm set to combine the sweetness of a woman's physicality, but with a bitter and morbid twist, to bring what it means to the women within my illustrations. 

Helen Dardik

My favorite artist/illustrator has to be Helen Dardik. She has influenced how I've chosen colors and looked at art for quite some time. Helen seems to have no fear when it comes to pairing colors for her illustrations. They are playful, witty, and light-hearted. I'm most drawn to her work because it has a retro feel to it much like artists from my childhood.

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Her work can be found at One Lucky Helen

You can read about her life and her work on her blog Orange You Lucky. 

Her etsy shop.

kelliebeck_firstdraft

I don't make art, I'm learning art. Every day I learn a new way to use my tools and new artists and their styles. Right now I'm learning as many techniques as I can and use them to my advantage. I'm developing my ideas, I'm learning the world and how I want to speak to it, coming from a small town doesn't give me much to work with, and I am going to explore as much as I can. I experiment with shapes, color, technique, and anything else I can. I see how far I can go with a medium, knowing it's form inside and out. 

kelliebeck_artist

Every Saturday or Sunday morning, when I was in elementary school, my mom and I would watch Donna Dewberry's One-Stroke Painting tv show together. She is the first artist who inspired me. It wasn't until summer 2005 when my mom signed me up for my first basic Donna Dewberry class with the art league in town. This class made me realize that art relaxed me and I enjoyed this one-stroke technique. After I took that class I was painting on everything; glass, folders, cork boards, and whatever I could.

drewcossa_First Draft

Art is a therapeutic method I use to calm my brain. With it I can express my current emotion in a very elaborate and stylized way that is impossible to do with words. What kick started my fascination with art is probably a combination of early childhood "Nintendo" games and a steady dose of "Captain Underpants" books. I especially enjoyed the simplicity of the art style and it made me very eager to try drawing for myself and here I am today still drawing. I try and have a stark contrast of cute characters that are stuck in particularly violent and serious situations. I normally draw myself in certain moods that I am currently in, but I try to be much more upfront about it then most other artists by avoiding vague abstract concepts that are too open to interpretation. I My work is mainly comprised of cartoon representations of other people. I enjoy taking certain features from them and putting it to paper in a cartoon friendly matter. I am reluctant to compare myself with "caricature" artists that you would normally find on the streets of New York as I don't really care for the medium much and I find the look of my work quite different in the fact that it resembles something more along the lines of "South Park anime". I enjoy redrawing people very consistently until I get their cartoon representation down to a science, I want to master drawing them from a wide variety of different angles and emotions because nailing it is extremely satisfying.

Its not a medium I've experimented with too much but I also fairly enjoy writing because it's clarity sometimes surpasses that of pictures or other visual media.

What's equally satisfying is having the approval of the person that I've drawn. I not only try to incorporate facial features from them but also they're hobbies and interests. If someone is displeased with my drawing of them I will try and refine the piece in question to a point of perfection. I do not want to fail someone I am drawing as an artist. 

Posting Assignment for Mon. OC 14

Consider an artist that has influenced or inspired you to either create a certain series of work or move into a particular direction. Collect images, videos, URLs etc. and create a post this week that highlights who this Artist is. This does not have to be an artist that works in the same media as you.  We will have an in class discussion on these Artists next week.

Richie D'Onofrio_first draft

-richie donofrio_first draft


Creating art is not just something I love to do. It is a necessity in my life. Art is my escape from the mundane day  to day affairs in this world. With it I can be instantly transported to a world all my own  outside of  reality filled with bizarre creations and oddities of my imagination. My art is a jump into this world I have made, where I draw ideas from repressed memories which are usually remnants of dreams. Fueled my music, I replay these events in my head and let my emotions counter act with them spewing out surreal creations that give me an instant sense of euphoria not only because of their likeness to the images replaying in my brain but to how I was feeling emotionally at that point in time of the creation the piece. I do not like to openly express my emotions to others but with my art I can do this, allowing me to slowly dive deep inside my mind and become at peace with the world around me.    

first draft

All my life I have always had this fantasy of living a very simple life, I grow up meet a boy, fall in love with that boy, married him make baby's mostly live out my life as a home maker for my husband and kids. This ideal life was manifested by the fact that my mother was a single parent. My mother was only twenty one when she gave birth to me and since then I was my mother whole world, she worked to support me, she work several jobs to feed me and to make sure that I had a roof over my head. 

My mother is a great influence on my life and how I see the work force, I always though that I was going to study to become a Doctor or work in a sort of blue collar work force. I have always wanted a way to  live this perfect life, so that I Could sort of escape from who I was and where I came from. I believe because of this view I was susceptible to influence from my peers, I remember thinking I had to be live my friends their lives are perfect. But as the older I got the more I realized that I had to chose my own path in life and not follow what everyone else was doing. 

Photography became my out let express myself in a safe enviorment, and a way to express my true feeling's, my photography is meant to express my fears of life and my fear of what society would see of me.  

meagan_firstdraft

I think photography was always meant to mean something to me. I grew up in front of a camera due to my lovely, proud mother. I never thought that being her life-size Barbie could guide me to what I really hope to do in my life. For a long time, I didn't believe that I could actually make photography a respectable career, worth working for. 

I'm very obsessive about the way I want a photo to look. I'm very detail oriented and every last detail has to be exactly how I see it. I tend to get easily frustrated when I can't express what I see in my mind. Even though photography is my world, I love to experiment with different mediums. 

I'm very passionate about art and I want to be versatile with it. I like creating and destroying, only to recreate, and I can't always do that with photography. Photography is my art and I plan to continue to incorporate it into whatever medium peaks my interest at the time.

amanda jones_first draft

Making art is something that I love. It's always been a constant in my life, and it always will be there. I feel that it's not only a record of my life, but it has become an extention of my very being. I have always been shy by nature, and in the past I've had a hard time expressing myself with the ease which most everybody else seemed to be born with. But I don't have to tell people how I view the world, because my artwork does it for me. It is my way to connect with people, and with myself. At this stage of my life, my work is very experimental, as I begin to build up more knowledge of how materials act, so that I may know how to use them in the future.  I am beginning to understand that there are many ways to accomplish any task, and I like that I can look back and see my progression. There is always a a small thrill that comes from finally making sense out of a bunch of chaos.

erika_First Draft

    My artistic journey started later in my life. I didn't believe (due to my upbringing) that design can be a means of making a living and that one can be happy creating art. I struggle with my mother's voice telling me that what I do isn't practical. Versus my inner voice that reassures me that following my dream of being a designer is what I'm suppose to do because it's the best thing for my soul.

My work is truly ever changing. I get inspired by many things in my environment. An ad in a magazine, a geometric pattern on fabric, an instagram photo, my daughter's artwork. I'm drawn to geometric shapes and finding basic shapes out of convoluted things. I get inspired by colors and patterns and their relationship to one another in something. I'm primarily attracted to colors of something then the pattern.

I try to interpret what I see into digital piece typically a digital mood board then into a blog header. At times I will sketch what I see in my notebook that I carry with me at all times. I love to write as well so jotting down my thought of my sketch is something I like to do. I'm a bit obsessed with dates and time so chances are you'll find that in my sketchbook. It may seem organized but it's only because I like to know when the inspiration hit me. I'm always trying to find patterns in my inspiration since I have major peaks and valleys of design motivation.

I go through bouts of design creation and written word for days sometimes weeks. One thing that has been constant throughout my life is that I journal ever since I was 6,  so I like looking back through my journals to seek inspiration there. At times even my own handwriting is inspiration for me. That is the reason why most of my work features typefaces. I'm constantly trying to find balance between white space, color, and type. It is a never-ending struggle for me. A struggle that I welcome and is the driving force behind what I do.
   

cwicker_firstdraft

              Artist Statement

              The exploration of thought and the oddities of an unknown universe are perceived as dreams. The subconscious, acts as a guide for narratives from the ever expanding unknown  to our tangible reality. With my work I search for an answer, "Who are we and who are we to become." I look into the unforeseeable future with no preconceived notion of triumph or tragedy. As my characters gain life, history morphs a new period of great change. Within my collection of work, I travel from reality to the unknown or other worldly. Throughout this body of work, I represent human form by depicting futuristic historical portraits of nameless men. Taking odd seemingly manmade commodities left behind as lost children of this unborn land and recreating entities of a new power.

                Cody William Wicker

Drew Cossa_Statement Outline

A majority of my work as an artist revolves around drawing people as cartoon alter egos of themselves. It is very compelling to me to try and nail the character design down to a science and to explore drawing each character with varied emotions and from different angles. I really enjoy showing people my art, so when the picture is a representation of the viewer I feel they will enjoy it even more. I was inspired early on by graphic novels such as Captain Underpants and hand drawn independent videogames like Castle Crashers and Alien Hominid. The simplicity of the art style gave me the confidence to produce work myself and here I am still drawing my viewers.

DonaldReddick_worksamples

                                              

                                                Donald Reddick

                                                The Void, 2013

                                                Oil on Particle Board 4'x4'

                                                Artist's Collection

 

This piece was started by taking a picture of myself leaning over one of the drafting tables with the front angled down so that the rear of the table would be at the highest point I could manage. Then another image was used for the triangle, and another for producing an outline for the singularity. Next I used a projector to super impose each image in a manageable position so that I could out line each image onto a 4'x4' white primed particle board. Finally I just filled in the blanks with oil paint to completed the image you see here.

 

 

 

                                                Donald Reddick

                                                Unknown Hero, 2012

                                                Paper and oil on particle board 5'x4'

                                                Artist's Collection

 

The process started with a white primed surface. Next two thirds of the surface was covered in paper pamphlets and VA hand book pages from the Veterans' Association. Then a selection of images were combined to create the effective content creating a sort of controversial response for homeless veterans. Finally the process of painting the image based on a representational color schema.

 

 



 

                                                Donald Reddick

                                                Boxed Sounds, 2012

                                                Oil on canvas 3'x4'

                                                Artist's Collection

 

This piece started with a stretched canvas primed with gesso. Next a recreation of a sketch and some miner adjustments lightly re-sketched on the surface. Then selection of three colors were selected from a color pallet that were my least favorite. Finally those colors were adjusted by combining two of the three in different directions, and creating light to dark variations to give depth.



DonaldReddick_FirstDraft

My time so far in this life has taught me many things, but I still to this day, as I always have been, am very hell bent on doing the things that I love in as many ways as I can. In this case, my art is the point of interest. I do always try to create as many variations of my art as I can. There is nothing that I will not try to perform in as many ways as possible. With my love of converting music into a visual form of art I strive to show it by way of paint, sculpture, etc. There is also controversial stories in art. With my piece about homeless veterans, "Unknown Heroes," I try to convey the need to help the men and women who have served the U.S. people with honor, and then were unable to make it in society after their term of service was completed. Plus there are the many other insulting atrocities conveyed by the ignorant idiots of this world that I present in this piece and refute. At one time some would think I was at war with the elements of life, but in reality I am just helping to create a balance. That balance comes with the drive to be very eclectic in the many things I would like to create. I find that a worldly balance can not be forced. It must be inspired...

DonaldReddick_Letter from the future_Resubmit

 Hey Donny,

     So I just wanted to let you know about the next 5 years of your life and how things work out. From where you are at this time you will be finishing up the last few courses the you need for your A.S. in Studio Arts. When you leave Florida School of The Arts and Palatka you will be moving back to Orlando and enrolling into Rollins College. The MFA program that they have there will greatly improve you abilities as an artist, and allow you a greater chance at proving your skills. It will be a great time to excel in your creative thought processes, and help in redefining the way you see art and create it. More so, during that time, you will get your chance at introducing your best of works in the Orange County Art Museum. While showing your works there you will be allowed to help with some of the summer art programs with the children who attend. Plus there will be a position that opens as a curator's assistant. Through your knowledge and experiences you will begin trying to find job openings at various colleges as a professor in the Studio Arts. At this point it is now a waiting game, but as usual your patience will prevail.

P.S.- You'll be just fine.

Sincerely,
     Yourself...

MaryBethHietapelto_statementoutline

1. I never really got into this work, its more like I can't get out of it. Most children are introduced to arts and crafts, finger painting, a wooden spoon and a pots and pans drum set. I just kept going with it, from triangle dresses and extra fingers, I moved on to earthy depictions of fairy's, gypsies, and mermaids. I feel like work is going well when I don't feel like ripping it up and hiding it from people because its so ugly and embarrassing.  There aren't many things I love about the work I do, but I enjoy layering line work over much of my art. That's probably my most favorite part. Line work makes everything better!!
2. Equality for all living things, love, harmony, music, nature, nudity, freedom, body painting, appreciation for the female body and anatomy, dancing, bare feet, hair..lots of hair.
3. a) Layering line work over charcoal, water color, or oils is what I like best about what I do.
b) When I say a piece has turned out really well, I mean it looks finished and I'm happy with it and I'm not scared to show it off.
c) Patterns in my work include a lot of yellow, the female body, and intricate line work.

meaganmiller_statement outline

1. When I pick up a camera, I feel like everything makes sense. I get a sense of understanding and confidence when I look through the viewfinder and I can already see the shot in my head. I know exactly how I want a photo to look and any other way, it feels odd. I'm very confident when it comes to my art. I do have a tendency to second guess myself until I think about why I'm doing it and what I want to accomplish with it. I want my photos to say something to someone. When work is going well, I feel like I should be in this profession and that I'm making the right decision to stick to what I love. When I look at average scenes, I automatically see how I could portray that scene in a photo. I see it all in my head from the very first glance; color scheme, depth of field, rule of thirds, feeling.
   
2. Detailed
   Different
   Simple
   Experimental
   Growth
   Bright
   Variety
   
3. I love feeling like I know what I'm doing, because I do. I feel so unbelievably confident when I look through my lens that nothing else matters. When I see my shot, I already have every last detail planned in my head and that makes me feel like I'm actually supposed to be doing this and that I was stupid for ever believing I couldn't. I just get a sense of knowing and understanding and I can't ever get enough of it. If I ever lose that, I will quit photography because the magic will be gone, my entire purpose will be gone. I know a piece has turned out well if it looks the same on the screen or the paper as it does in my head. I'm a firm believer of the rule of thirds. I will rarely, if ever, center a subject. Sometimes, I'll center a subject on accident and I like the result, but rarely does that happen. I have a tendency to place my subject to the right so there is more visible space on the left. I'm not sure how I came about doing that, but I'll find myself trying to correct it and change up the scene so that the subject will fall just about anywhere else. 

Linda Navamuel_Statement Outline

 1. I didn't chose the artist life, i was born to do this. I always loved making art and i'm glad my parents are supportive or I wouldn't have believed in my art. I create because its my outlet in from reality,  there are no rules when it comes to art. When my work is going really well, i tend to become excited to finish it. Knowing that a work is coming along way better then how i imagined it makes me proud. This is a life style for me, my art does a better job explaining me then I can verbally.

2. Feminine, bold, innocent yet cheeky, experimental, happy accidents, unsure, trying to connect with something more that's within me. Fun, a lot of trial and errors, innovated, responsive. Girly, darker then it looks.  

3.
 - What do you like best about what you do?
     I like creating works that create a response from the viewer, whether its positive or negative. The best when people give you they're idea on it, when they explain what they believe it means or their point of view. I love the process of creating a work, the fumbling between one idea and another; which at one point, i end up saying "f**k it" and going with a gut idea which ends up making an awesome satisfying piece.

- What do you mean when you say that a piece has turned out really well?
    I mean that the work i created come out better then the sketches that i created, that I made a work based on impulsive ideas. I didn't think to hard on the idea, that i was able to express more then I thought i could. Sometimes, doubt occurs when i'm creating a work, i become concerned that no one will understand or appreciate what i'm trying to create. When i create a work that is different, where my style has grown.

- Is there a pattern in your work?
  I believe theres a strong pattern of women, i guess due to the fact that i myself are a women. Material wise, my favorite martial to work with is watercolor, fine ink pens and color pencils. I love creating intricate line accompanied  by light transparent watercolors. I would say very often feminine, and dainty types of subjects.

cwicker_ statement outline

 Iv always been serenaded by art even as a infant.Both my parents have a large collection of Howard Finster paintings witch they where given by howard at his home in Atlanta. They are not artist them selfs but they have always had a passion for art and bizarre antiques. So when they saw my ability to reinterpret images as a young child they did everything they could to encourage me to continue and build my strengths as an artist. There was concern for a brief moment as i had a strong obsession with aliens as a boy.I even wrote a book in the 4th grade about an alien friend of mine named joey and got first place in the florida book writing competition.  I believe the positive reinforcement and my surroundings has molded me into the artist i am today.

Bizarre, Odd, Other worldly, space, create, new, expand, grow, forward, multiply, divide, arrange, change, continue, don't erase, always have your eyes open, live, adventure,dream 

  what i like best about my work is having an idea or vision of a piece and executing as planned. Tough its never exactly what i had envisioned but what fun would that be there would be no surprises and its all about the surprises you may stumble upon.

Nick Silvestris_Statement Outline

1. I grew up around passionate, creative people and making art is how I emulate them. When things are going well I feel validated for all the effort I put forth. A sense of power and control comes through when my work shows skill and accuracy. My favorite thing about my work is the stories it tells, the reflection it has on my life at that time and the way it expresses my thoughts.

2. Curiosity, Novelty, Excellence. Following traditions yet leading the future. Indulging in your interests, creating a vision. Document, Encouragement, Glorify. Doing it better, changing direction, preserving virtue. Solidify abstraction, dissolve certainty.

3.  a. What I like best about what I do is not just the sheer joy of accomplishment it gives me, but rather the process of exploration, research, and ingenuity that goes into what I make.
     b.  If a piece has turned out right then it has been crafted well and portrays what I intended it to, and if not, then has surprised me with an alternative yet satisfying manifestation of that intention.
     c. Patterns in my work follow

kelliebeck_statementoutline

I enjoy the time and hard work I put into a piece, I believe that every mark counts. Creating art is a relief, especially when a piece has turned out really well. And it's only well when I know that I have gave it my all. When I'm done, it makes me feel excited and ready for the next project. 

Amanda Jones_Statement Outline

1. Making art is something that I love. It's always been a constant in my life, and it always will be there. I feel that it's not only a record of my life, but it has become an extention of my very being. I have always been intimidated by people in general, and in the past I've had a hard time expressing myself with the ease which most everybody else seemed to be born with. But I don't have to tell people how I view the world, because my artwork does it for me. It is my way to connect with people, and with myself.

2. Strong
Experimental
Imperfect
Different reality
Aware
Caring

3.
What do you like best about what you do?
       I like that I can look back at what I've done and see my progression. I can see where I've improved and how my technique has evolved. I love knowing that I have the ability to make sense out of my chaos.

What do you mean when you say that a piece has turned out really well?
     I mean that I can finally accept that other people will view my work, and though some may dislike it, I can still view it with pride.

What patterns emerge in your work; Is there a pattern in the way you select materials or the way you use color, texture or light?
     I draw or paint people a lot, however most of my works often contain aspects of nature or animals. I have been painting for years, and now that I begin to explore different materials, such as chalk and pen, I am beginning to understand that there are many ways to accomplish any task.I have certain preferences, regarding surfaces that I plan to work on, because the character of the medium is directly affected by the character of the surface. Painting on a canvas allows far more freedom for me, as I can pile on as much paint as I want. However, I need to be more mindful of the choices that I make when I paint on something like paper, where water must be used in moderation.

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1. I feel empowered
that i will be a successful graphic designer
im designing something from a basic concept
that i can take an idea and translate it into a graphic

2. Words + Phrases:
Novice
Simple
Clean
Geometric
Typographic
Serene
Subdued

3. It makes me feel accomplished when I can help someone communicate their message with a graphic I've designed for them. I consider a piece that is well designed when my client is satisfied and for personal projects that I don't cringe when I look at it or feel like something is missing. The patterns most often seen in my work is when I take type and turn it into a graphic or a pattern. I'm also quite drawn to simple geometric shapes. Simple lines and patterns are the basis for my design inspiration. I love using the color pink. While it has various meanings I just love the versatility of the color and how different hues and shades can convey a completely different message. I also love how the color can virtually be paired with most colors given the right shade.