Artist Statement for Hummingbird Color Wheel project 1

Artist Statement

Your overall vision for the work.

My overall vision for the work was to think about making a hummingbird color wheel to show that the color wheel has different shades.  

What you expect from your audience and how you think they will react?

I expect the audience to understand the concept of colors and shades, and I hope they like my art.

How your current work relates to your previous work.

My current artwork relates to my previous as I took a painting class at the Moore School of Art where we were learning about shading, like grays and tints.  I also took another class like Fashion Design where we looked for colors that popped and that worked together.

Sources and inspiration for your images?

Well, I saw the typical color wheel online just to make sure I put all the different tones on. My next step was looking for a color wheel that was creatively, unique, and should my arts side. I looked at  animals that I could  use to put over the color wheel as a sketch over the wheel that would be drawn and bolded in black.

How has your Art been influenced?

I was influenced by my first teacher in first and second grade teacher, Debbie.  She inspired me by telling me that art is not done for perfection but as fun and messy. Another person that inspired me aswell was this Ralph Smith that live in my house. He lifted his artwork in the house before he passed away but his artwork was incredible. He did prints (using wood bricks and carving them), panting, pencil drawing, and pastel drawings a well. But he was extra creative.

How this work fits into a series or longer body of work?

If I were to have this piece fit into a series, I would play with one certain primary color and focus on it and maybe put a animal over it like I did to my first one.

How a certain technique is important to the work?

The technique that is important to this work is colors and shades.  Color and shades are important because they make a work more interesting, realistic, add mode.

A new technique that you learned or experimented more with in the process of making this work?

One of the technique that I used was I  angled my paint brush so that the paint would fall perfectly on the paper to make exact  paint strokes.

The final paragraph should recapitulate the most important points in the statement.