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| When I was in elementary school, my third grade art teacher told my parents that they should not let me pursue anything in art because I could not grasp the concept. So I didn’t do anything dealing with art until the seventh grade. I was late signing up for classes and I was put into a beginning art class with a new teacher. She was nice and I found out I did enjoy drawing but I found myself wanting to do the more difficult stuff like shading and textures, so I signed up for another semester with the senior teacher named Miss Souvé. She was the reason I decided to pursue a career in art. Her strict techniques and actual attentiveness to, not only me but to all her students pushed me to expand my horizons. Before long I found out that I was almost tow whole projects ahead of the rest of the class so I got put into the job of matting and shrink wrapping the finished student’s artwork for the upcoming art show. I didn’t win anything in that art show, none of us did. We were competing against artist from all over the county. But I did get some wonderful praise when a stranger approached me and asked if a woman I drew was a model named Nikki Taylor. It was and I considered this a huge success being only in the 8th grade at this time and still so new at this Art thing. I took as many art classes as I could with Miss Souvé, even becoming a student assistant my last year there. She was the spark that helped light my way onto bigger and better things. During High School I tried out the digital art field and found out I was good at it. I was also heavily involved in the Ceramics department, taking five of only four classes. While there I entered several of the school’s art shows and this time winning a first place, two second places, a third and a purchase award. The purchase award was where the school wanted to buy your art work from you, in this case, a ceramic dragon pot I made during my third ceramic class. The Ceramics teacher was another one of those “great teachers” you get once throughout your life. I was lucky to get three, the last one coming from the community college I graduated from. I met my teacher when I took his drawing 2 class. Although it was drawing 2, we did figure drawing the entire semester. That’s where I grew a great appreciation for the human form. I believe that the human figure is one of the most difficult subjects to draw because of the amount of complexity it involves. Every thing is related to another part. For example, on average the body is seven heads long and the eyes are spaces on eye with apart from each other. Also, the muscle tones are especially difficult to capture. I love how drawing the body is so much different than drawing anything else. I enjoy the level of difficulty and the challenge it invokes. When I was still in High School I got a job working for the NASA Kennedy Space Center and there I had a friend who would display copies of my work around her office. Because of her doing that many people got to see my work. I receive two book commissions and sold two other individual works by the end of that year. My first painting I ever did sold for $300. It was a very proud moment in my life because it was like it was official; I was an artist. The painting was of a dancing lady. Once again, my interest for the human form paid off. My favorite part of the human body to draw is the hands and feet. I like the way they move and the angles and positions they can be twisted into. We really have an amazing body. Because I like figures so much, it’s little wonder that my favorite style of art is Realism. Paintings from the Neo-Classical era are great as well as other time periods like the Renaissance. Some of my favorite artists include Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Salvador Dali and some modern artist like Michael Parkes and Lee Bogle. All of them deal in realism. Michael Parkes is an unusual artist as far as subject matters. He uses a lot of soft colors but it’s what the subjects are doing that intrigues me the most. It makes me think of what it would look like if your imagination were to come to life. Women would be dancing in the sky on the end of a ring or getting painted as if this living person were a doll. There are also a variety of unusual creatures that inhabit his paintings like the gryphon. Another painter that I believe Michael Parkes was inspired by is Salvador Dali. I have never seen anything like Dali and I doubt there will ever be anyone who will equal his imaginative and bold impression is work leaves the viewer. He is probably one of the few abstract artists that I like because of the unusual nature to his paintings like the Melting Clocks or the Dreams of a Virgin. My favorite, and less abstract, painting of his was the Christ of St John of the Cross. That painting has a powerful meaning to me because of my deep foundations in my religion. When I first saw the Christ of St John of the Cross, it almost brought me to tears because of the sheer magnificence of it and the power you can feel coming out of it. My least favorite art style is abstraction. I don’t like the feel it gives me and I don’t like the impression it leaves on me. It’s almost mechanical to me and mechanical doesn’t appeal to my interest. Though I may not like abstract, I am not closed to the possibilities that it can bring because, like in Salvador Dali’s case, there are exceptions to the rule. If the work is interesting and has an actual subject like Gustav Klimt’s the Kiss, it may draw my eye but if it is just a painting of a bunch of squares or lines I would probably pass it by. All in all I would title my interest as “unusual realism”. I tend to focus on issues dealing with the body and the fantasy world. I enjoy going to museums and art galleries to explore and get new ideas for my own work. I tend to woke in pencil more often than not but I will work in all kinds of mediums like charcoal, paint, wood, metal, etc. I will build and I will sculpt to make something that I have an image of in my mind. I enjoy creating art work and have centered my life around it by making it my career. |
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- Interests: Art, movies, music, friends and Carnival masks
- Favourite movie: too many to choose from
- Favourite band or musician: again, too many to choose from
- Favourite genre of music: Rock, 80's, classical...eh, a lot
- Favourite artist: Michelangelo and Michael Parkes
- Favourite poet or writer: Max Ehrmann
- Skin of choice: clean
- Favourite game: tetris
- Favourite cartoon character: Invader Zim
- Personal Quote: ...I'm sorry, did you say something?
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