Thursday I had the pleasure of hosting the Live Y'ers at Larua's Center for the Arts where I gave a presentation on my personal art making. As an art educator, I am constantly introducing my students to different contemporary artists and talking about the many different ways in which they work. It was such a treat to have a chance to talk about the process I've personally tailored to fit my artistic goals.
Each artist creates their own method of working, through time spent in the studio, situating things this way or that, to create their work. Two goals I have found myself working towards are to create a sense of investigation of a semi-familiar scape and to keep the freshness of the drawn line present throughout the piece.
The tables shown in these photos are an
organized version of what my studio looks like. I surround myself with little printed reference photos which primarily come from my photos taken while visiting
Yellowstone National Park, a girlfriend's honeymoon photos from
Hawaii, and printed images from
National Geographic publications. Then, I stitch them together like a puzzle and create a new landscape.
After giving a short presentation on my work using photos from my
website and an actual painting in progress that I brought along with me for the day, the Live Y'ers got to work on this puzzle process.
Some amazing pieces were made where interesting connecting lines were found to create a new land.
We later got out some oil pastels to further connect our imagery.
It was such a great feeling to, for the first time, describe my uniquely crafted art making process and watch as people connect with it so quickly and start making art that seemed so natural to the process. These women really picked up on my two main goals, so keep an eye out for painting updates on my website... you just may find some of these compositions in there!
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