"MY THING/STYLE"

This quick sketch is a saxophone, but not entirely realistic, in fact, rather whimsical. All of my pieces are "rather whimsical." I like recreating subjects rather than emotions and many of these are inspired by animals and music. While animals and music are two entirely different things, they are two of my favorite things. In my eyes, they are both already a form of art themselves. I enjoyed creating this piece and allowing it to be imperfect and would like to continue making more pieces like this that combine multiple mediums and consist of lots of messy lines to create a clean picture.

"Crustacean Innovation"

Again, in this picture, I used several messy lines to construct a neater piece. The themes of each of my pieces are always inspired by either music or animals. In this piece, my subject was a crab. It is not entirely realistic, and in fact whimsical like the rest of pieces.  

The artist whom I feel I relate to the most is Sharon Cummings. Sharon Cummings earned her degree from the University of Tampa. She worked under Dorothy Denham until Denham's death in 1999. Cummings continued to make art and specialize in abstracts, moderns, landscapes, and florals by request. Sharon Cummings still makes art and inspires many to this day. In her work, I see many of the same themes conveyed as in mine. Many of her modern paintings include whimsical recreations of animals, something I relate to completely. Other paintings by her express music, which is an inspiration for a multitude of my creations.

Sharon Cummings "Art by the Drums" piece is my favorite piece by her. This piece is inspiring to me because of the simplicity. It looks like what she did was maybe sketch out the drums in pencil and then go back with a wet brush and create a pool of water where she wanted to put the watercolor. The painting combines warm and cool colors to create a silhouette of a drum set. I like that each of the colors range in value and are not just either warm or cool, but both. I also love the fact that it is a painting of an instrument, mostly because music is an inspiration for so many or my pieces. However, I also like the subject because music in itself is its own form of art.

Dream Board

This piece shows a few of my visions for this year. The words read "hey there sunshine lift my heart," and have an illustration of a heart surrounded by the sun because one of my goals for this year is to radiate positivity and love, and be seen as a "ray of sunshine." A few more of my goals include staying organized, maintaining my current GPA, and getting accepted into GHP.