Art Career Research Paper

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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 …show more content…

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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