Essence's Artist Statement

My Artist Statement

       I created an eye, I’m not sure why I did it just appealed to me. I think it kind of shows the different colors that we see throughout the day and how they light up our eyes. I also think this painting really outlines the beauty of vision that many take for granted, and I hope that’s what people see when they view this painting. I hope they find it creative and see it how I do. In past art Ive worked on, I always hoped to outline and enhance whatever I was doing. I believe that’s what I did with this eye; I took something simple and used colors to enhance and embrace its inner beauty. 

      This painting fits in with contemporary art because it's showing a color wheel and how artist learn to mix different colors to make new ones. My art fits into the history of art practices because it demonstrates how the pioneers of art first learned how to mix colors. I don't feel as though my art necessarily fits into a category because my past art projects have never been with paint or anything relatively in this category. I didn't have one source of inspiration for my images, after looking through several of images online and work by different artist like 

Frida Kahlo, I came up with my idea. One technique that was important for my drawing was making streaks in one direction. This was essential to keeping my paining looking neat. 

       Basically this was an important project for me because I learned how to manage my painting better. This project helped me notice how to capture somethings beauty and elevate it and I overall enjoyed it and learned a lot from it as a whole.  Next time I have a project I hope to improve it even more.