I just want to say wow!, first of all, to everyone who has visited my site. I launched on Facebook this week, and received over 100 views in 24 hours! Incredible! Obviously that's not a daily occurrence, but I don't mind, I make my website for my art, not my art for my website.
Being back at college this week has left less time to do painting and the like, but we have started an interesting project surrounding 'Disguise' in art class. We've been covering art theory surrounding artists challenging us to think about stereotype and assumption. This lead me to think about the purpose of my art. Personally, I don't want my pictures just to show what is already there. I want to communicate with others through artwork. My art is part of my voice. So what do I want my art to say? I want to speak about things that are important to me. I've started listing what I want to say through my art. If you're interested, this is what is important for me to say so far.
These are particularly important to me, and I'm going to work giving my art more direction through exploring these areas, as well as others which are harder to group into just a statement. So far this week, I've worked on a piece exploring attitude to Free Will, and also a reaction to Remembrance Day. Learning oils in college next week, which is something entirely new....
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