As a child, I started out with the good ol' pencil and paper approach to the arts. After all these years, I always seem to go back to it. Where did this artistic sense come from? It came from my mother who is extremely artistic. What did I inherit from my father? I inherited his twisted sense of humor.
In college I majored in Commercial Art/Computer Design, but the art department was traditional in that they wanted the students to venture in all forms of art, rather than just graphic design on the computer. I'm very thankful for this because I actually prefer the "hands-on" approach to the arts.
My second area of study was ceramics, more specifically, wheel throwing. This class was no breeze, as we made everything from scratch. I still remember making clay in this monstrous, evil machine that mixed all the powder and gunk together. What a mess! Making a batch of clay was not just a couple slabs of clay, it was an entire industrial garbage can full. After all this trauma, you would think that I would have stopped at the one class, but I actually took 4 years of this.
I really lacked any unique style until my senior year, where I chose to create the most intricate, delicate pottery imaginable. What an idiot. It took me forever! Others in the class would whip up these large, durable pieces that were beautiful, yet not too time-consuming to create. I spent many labored hours on my pieces by carving patterns into them with a blade. They were so fragile that I often broke them in the process of creating them. Most of my pieces are Raku, the Japanese style of glazing and firing.
For my drawings, my specialty is Photorealism. I am very impatient in everyday life, except when it comes to my art and music. I will spend hours getting my work perfect or it will be discarded. I prefer drawing anything that nature has created such as the human body, animals, and plants, but faces are my favorite to draw because they so challenging.
I try to keep at it in what little spare time I have and I'm hoping to get a potter's wheel sometime in the near future. I also want to play around more with other media so look out... |
