old (think last summer):
new (think last week):
acrylic
pencil and gouache
bonus:
white acrylic paint on black illustration board, and then chalk pastel on top.
lately artmaking has become an extension of an impulse. i have little desire to make thought-out and deliberate pieces and find myself drawing and painting much more out of a feeling or an immaterial gesture. i am happy for this change. i think this is how i should have began as an art student: not studying and conquering concerns of technique but drawing and painting purely for play. i look at my portfolio now and it is so devoid of creativity, and i think about myself and am disturbed by my ingrained limitations and the constant rehashing of the same thoughts and ideas. in the past year i have been realizing all of this, and while i have been first working on overcoming fears and limits in thought, it is now time to move on to overcoming fears and limits in action.
lately artmaking has become an extension of an impulse. i have little desire to make thought-out and deliberate pieces and find myself drawing and painting much more out of a feeling or an immaterial gesture. i am happy for this change. i think this is how i should have began as an art student: not studying and conquering concerns of technique but drawing and painting purely for play. i look at my portfolio now and it is so devoid of creativity, and i think about myself and am disturbed by my ingrained limitations and the constant rehashing of the same thoughts and ideas. in the past year i have been realizing all of this, and while i have been first working on overcoming fears and limits in thought, it is now time to move on to overcoming fears and limits in action.
