The End

So as we reach the end of the semester, and are amidst our many final projects.. it's nice to look back at all the work we have done this semester and also to plan ahead for new things.. This Summer I am goin to Bar Harbor, Maine and also San Francisco for a week. I plan on doing studies similar to the pleine aire ones we did in class with water color. I am excited to see the sites in both and also going along with my theme of animals, to see the seals on the harbor in California. The views are also spectacular up on Acadia National Park, so I plan on doing some landscape paintings up there in water color, as well. It'll be interesting to try to capture the layering technique I am trying out with washes of images of the ocean and the shore. Well I guess we'll see what happens.. hope everyone has a great summer and I'll probably see most of you in Painting 2!

Artist Statement

This past semester alot of my studies have been about life, more specifically animal life. I am exploring different kinds of animal cruelty, and different ways to portray it. I have done some representative pieces but I am finding now that they are a little to didactic for my taste. The piece I did for the Nursing Show was done by layering transparencys over top one another, which is more ambigous than some of my other naturalistic paintings, so I hope to head more in that direction. I think maybe for the final I might try the layering technique again, but with the animal theme in mind. I have also done alot of sketches involving family and friends. I genuinely have an interest in people and their relationship with others, which would also include their relationship with animals. This also ties in with the animal cruelty theme again.
I would like to at some point do some direct studies of animals maybe at a farm or at a zoo, since most of them have been from photographs with the exceptions of drawings I have done of my dog and cat. I think this method of direct observation serves to better capture the animals personality, and also evoke emotion from my audience. This is always a goal of mine. I want to bring awareness to my audience. I want them to be emotionally moved by the events that are depicted in my art. In fact one of the artists Tiffany suggested really captures the emotions that I would like to convey in my art.. check out Sue Coe if you are interested.