Strong Technical Skills I possess:
- Observation
- Texture/using brush strokes to describe subject matter
- Speed - I'm a somewhat slow painter
- Color - I can always improve
Preferred subject matter for painting is that same as it was for drawing and it hasn't changed since I was in the 5th grade: people. I love drawing - and now especially painting - human beings. I love painting faces above all else and I am partial to hands as well.
Why do I want to be an artist? That's obviously a difficult question to answer for most artists - that is, unless you break it down to simply enjoying making art. I've been drawing since the 3rd grade and painting since August 2011. Senior year of high school I changed my style to what is more or less a realist approach. I find making art calming and I'm a higher stress individual. It's therapeutic and rewarding in that I feel accomplished. When I make progress or, better yet, finish a project, I know that I'm being productive and it doesn't sit well with me to be anything less.
Of course, I would like to do more than simply make art to make myself happy. Most things I do I do to achieve some sort of happiness or satisfaction, but I would also like my art to make statements that words could never do as effectively. I want to take advantage of mediums and images and communicate a message more directly than I ever could verbally by showing viewers what I want them to see, what I want them to realize.
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| Rosetta 2, 2005-2006, Jenny Saville |
Honestly I don't stay updated and aware of other artists enough. I would love to go to more galleries, but the fact is that I haven't. An artist I truly admire, though, is one that I was introduced to in Introductory Painting last semester, Jenny Saville. Her style and goal resonate with me because of the expressiveness of her brush stokes and the way that she approaches some women's issues and also transgender issues in her more recent works.
