Hackley,+Alexa

[[image:1109091305-00.jpg width="480" height="358" align="left"]]"A House is not a Home, not Black and White, but Bright and Beautiful"
Time to time I question the thought of what comes to mind when I create art. "The thought of creation shines in the eye of the wise." I create to learn, grow and cherish what make me happy, but yet adapts to my life experience.

A tool that most interest me is acrylic paint, but yet have used it in my art. The types of things you can create with acrylic paint fascinates me, starting from lumps to swirls that then turns in to 3D images. Some materials I feel most comfortable with are canvases that are thin, and a pencil. For some reason I use pencil for most of my outlines instead of an art pencil or thin permeant marker. For the most part I love when I take a picture off the net or just use and outside source, and then recreate it until it reflects off as part of my life. I like how there are times in my life when I think of creating an image mentally rather then more visual from another source. I like how my brain thinks and how it can travel and think as if I was the viewer. I know when a piece turned out good when there's nothing else to be done, when there are no more creations in the brain. I know when a piece is final when I hear the surroundings talking about the piece. There are times when I have yet to finish completing it and others compliment it, honestly I believe that art work doesn't have to be at its best for it to be known or acknowledged.

When I look at this art piece I think of a home, a colorful home that brings power and success to life, but in a quiet way. There are things in life you got to have but in such little time. I know that you can change a house to a home, and black and white to a lot more vivid colors to make it comfortable not only for the self but for the sight of the eye. For example, the color of my room stood at a dull pink, then from light pink to lavender, and as I aged into a teen, I decided to go for a more bight color to make me feel more comfortable, so I then made it bright green and aqua blue. What can I get out of creating this art piece? A life style that can live with me for my future career in college. I will learn to adapt to a room or any surroundings, and change it to make it my own if i still don't feel comfortable.

=QUARTER 2= So now the main focus was on abstract, something about it catches my eye makes me want to splatter paint everywhere on the paper then take a brush and start vertical then horizontal, then ending it with dabs of a sponge to give the paper a 3D texture. This was all in the mind until I really ended up doing what I said above. Making a decision about my next project was tough, because I came to my conclusion I don't want to me an art major or art minor, but I love doing art in a since. Its as if when the either a brush or pencil is in my hand I take my imagination and run with it until I (the artist) thinks its finished, this is what creates a true artist.

Red, blue, green, black, and yellow, no pencil nor canvas, etc.... just these 5 colors and my imaginations. I took the bush and painted diagonal, then horizontal then vertical, and ended it with a sponge background. At first I was stuck at to what i was trying to express in this abstract piece. I then noticed that to the right side of the paper it seems to be much darker then the left side. SO I thought about life and how regardless if you feel like life is in the dark for you, life will always still shine bright in your opposite corner. So the next day I came to class and thought about having this stand out more then just an abstract piece, I took some magazine papers balled them up and made flowers. I then hot glues then to the paper and made several more just so it wouldn't be alone. I decided to make flowers in the bright corner opposite of the dark bloomy corner to emphasize the fact that "Your life will blossom when the time comes, there's no need to rush." After I added the stems to the flowers I thought I was done but something more was calling out to me, I think added yellow in the middle of each flower to left the viewers understand what the image really was. But for some reason I left the middle flower the way it is, I have no reason for doing it but now that I think about it, it mean "In life you will always be the one who stand out of the bunch ( you know the odd one) from the littlest thing to the biggest thing, remember you are the challenger,"