The smell of fresh paint in a quiet room, the gentle scratch of a pencil on paper quickly sketching a new idea, sunlight streaming in through the open windows to strike the colorful canvases carefully leaned up against the wall, this is where I want to be. These are the things that make an art studio. These are the things that make a home. In order to live my dream, a life filled with art, college is where I need to be.
Interests came and went over the course of my life but my interest in art never once wavered, and it came to a head during my freshman year of high school when my art teacher saw my passion for drawing and asked me if I ever considered an art career. This took me aback. An art career meant an opportunity for my art to be
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I evolved from colorful scribbles to enrolling in a graphic design program and applying for an art college. My love for art took me all over the color wheel and throughout various expressions. My favorite method of illustration is digital, but to complement this I have worked with a wide variety of mediums. Clay, collage, charcoal, gouache, watercolor and ink, acrylic, the list goes on. As well as having experience with many traditional mediums, I’m proficient in digital programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Lightroom. Using this software I have achieved great work as a graphic designer as well as an illustrator. Oftentimes I combine my two loves, illustration and graphic design, by drawing a piece to be incorporated into a poster or business card. Playing with the contrast between hand-drawn elements and vector shapes is one of my favorite things to do. The journey through various mediums shaped me into a talented artist, and I want to continue exploring different mediums outside my comfort zone. I don’t ever want to stop growing and I believe college is where I will thrive. Being surrounded by other artists and the gentle ambiance of daydreams made reality through paintbrush and clay, the spark of creation, of art, in the air is the stuff of
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I am a prospective art history major and visual studies minor. To me, art has been a passion rooted in my very soul and an inseparable part of my life ever since I started painting at nine years old. However, where I come from, pursuing art is rarely respected or supported. As a result, I spent both my freshmen and sophomore year as a STEM major. Yet throughout my freshmen year, experiencing art while visiting New York was the fountain of my happiness. I can still vividly remember the holiday windows, New York Fashion Week, and especially the artworks in countless galleries and museums I visited. Spurred by my thirst for art, I took an Asian art history course, where I got to examine how philosophy, politics and local culture shaped Asian art by studying monuments, paintings and calligraphy. Art sustained me through the many frustrations of academic pressure and cultural barriers, and I became determined to make art my life’s pursuit.
Imagine pondering into a reconstruction of reality through only the visual sense. Without tasting, smelling, touching, or hearing, it may be hard to find oneself in an alternate universe through a piece of art work, which was the artist’s intended purpose. The eyes serve a much higher purpose than to view an object, the absorptions of electromagnetic waves allows for one to endeavor on a journey and enter a world of no limitation. During the 15th century, specifically the Early Renaissance, Flemish altarpieces swept Europe with their strong attention to details. Works of altarpieces were able to encompass significant details that the audience may typically only pay a cursory glance. The size of altarpieces was its most obvious feat but also its most important. Artists, such as Jan van Eyck, Melchior Broederlam, and Robert Campin, contributed to the vast growth of the Early Renaissance by enhancing visual effects with the use of pious symbols. Jan van Eyck embodied the “rebirth” later labeled as the Renaissance by employing his method of oils at such a level that he was once credited for being the inventor of oil painting. Although van Eyck, Broederlam, and Campin each contributed to the rise of the Early Renaissance, van Eyck’s altarpiece Adoration of the Mystic Lamb epitomized the artworks produced during this time period by vividly incorporating symbols to reconstruct the teachings of Christianity.
What made the final decision for the career you chose for yourself? Is it something you are passionate about doing? Was it the money? Well what if you could take an assessment test of your skills and see what career would be best for you? You don’t want to be stuck doing a job that you do not enjoy because you thought it paid well. After exploring two very different careers, it was interesting to see what I found. A Business Executive and an art therapist have very little in common.
In the University Of Arizona Museum Of Art, the Pfeiffer Gallery is displaying many art pieces of oil on canvas paintings. These paintings are mostly portraits of people, both famous and not. They are painted by a variety of artists of European decent and American decent between the mid 1700’s and the early 1900’s. The painting by Elizabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun caught my eye and drew me in to look closely at its composition.
Before finally deciding on my career path, I had a very hard time trying to choose which path I wanted to take. After considering what I truly enjoy doing and what skills I possess, I have decided that I wanted to become a graphic designer. I want to be a graphic designer, because I feel that I would have a chance to use all of the skills I possess and be happy while doing it. In order to become a graphic designer, there are certain educational requirements that must be met. There are also specific job requirements that I must accomplish. Although there are many requirements, the personal benefits I gain will make up for all of the hard work in the end.
Art is something that has been around since humans have roamed the earth. It has been created by millions of different people, and has been influenced by many things. One incredibly big influence on art has been religion. Artists usually create work to express feelings and convey different meanings. It is no surprise that religion plays a significant role in this creation.
This last thought led me to seriously think about which area of design I should be researching for, and unless an opportunity arises for a graphic illustrator position soon after graduation, I foresee me doing freelance work. With this in mind I started looking into what being a freelancer entails, which led me to an article titled, ‘So, You Want a Creative Job?’ (Karjaluoto, 2012)
Young children are typically horrible at art. If you’ve ever known a child, you probably know this already. They draw people about as unrealistically as you can get, with circles for eyes, triangles for noses, and lines for fingers. But parents always praise their children. Even though their artistic skills are not yet developed, kids have to be encouraged to try again and again until they learn how to draw more accurately. Professional artists must go through the same process of revising their style until they get it right. This is where the saying comes from: “practice makes perfect.”
My present interest in art is more graphic/typography based, although I do enjoy all areas of art. I have been designing graphics on my computers from a young age and have work published in national magazines. Not all the graphical work I do is computer based, I enjoy using traditional mediums in a clean graphical way, as I find it more satisfying working on a larger scale and producing something more "real". My current course has helped me "branch out" more; I have experimented in many disciplines successfully producing paintings, pastels and drawings, which I had never really developed fully before.
Throughout my life, I have loved to draw. Due to my love of drawing, I decided to take a career in something that has to do with art. A few things have happened in my life that has caused me to take this path. Three people that I have interacted in some way, are the reason for my choices.
Art classes throughout kindergarten and up to my junior year in college have taught me so much about expression, performance and making a statement. Learning and practicing art introduces a new way of processing information, and approaching problems. In my
I’m not taking very many classes to prepare for my future career although I am taking art 2-D Fundamentals. It somewhat involves an area of fashion designing, that area being sketching. I r...
I think about art often. My father is an artist as well as my sister. I grew up surrounded by art either in paintings, dance, or art performances I attended at my sister’s high school, the arts academy. My desire to create art must have a root in my childhood, where I was constantly involved in beautiful creations of the human
The arts have influenced my life in amazing ways. Throughout my life, art has been the place I run to and my escape from the world. As I’ve grown older, art has become so much more than that. Every piece of art I create is a journey into my soul. It’s a priceless way to deal with my emotions and my struggles. I create art not only because I enjoy it and because I want to, but because I have to. Somewhere deep inside there is a driving force, urging me to put my heart down on paper. I become emotionally attached to each of my pieces because they are like dashes on the wall marking my growth. Each one is the solution to a problem I have dealt with and overcome.