SON OF A SKANK!! i need to print out my college essays and for SOME reason my usb will work on my computers but not my dads computer that can print. ARGH! i NEEEED TO PRINT AND I CANT PRINT FROM MY LAPTOP OR MY COMPUTER BECAUSE COMPUTERS HATE ME!! so THIS is my college essay read it or dont im going to delete this as soon as i print the damned thing anyways.

September 14, 2009

Frank Roth Foundation Painting Homework # 1

Art has always been interesting to me because I see it as a stress reliever. I was originally interested in fine arts but as I became more interested in sequential art I chose cartooning , I enjoy telling stories as much as I love drawing so cartooning has become a natural fit for me. The type of work that influences me isn't comics but impressionistic art, this style has developed my own abilities because it's about thinking and
seeing differently.

Impressionistic art was based on moving away from the normal realistic style and attempting to see art and the world in a different light , I want to do this as well, I want to think as far out the box as I can and allow myself and others to see more than what they are accustomed to. The artists in history who have inspired me the most are Salvador Dali, Piet Mondrian, and Ray Johnson., and Paul Cezanne. These particular artists I especially admire because they of their dedication to their art, eccentric personalities, and
Their ways of seeing things are almost riddle like.

I especially admire Ray Johnson, because of the things he said and the work he created he created a world of his own the as much as others would try to understand such as his art, and himself, it was almost an impossible task. My favorite media to use is ink, although it gets messy I enjoy the freeness I have with it and it's many benefits for cartooning, as well as the training my hand gets by learning to keep steady when inking which is beneficial when working with painting and other styles.

I have many ideas I want to express, but my ideas in painting and drawing are different from the ideas I want to express in comics. I like drama and tragedy, which is what my art occasionally centers around and my paintings often come out as what some may consider depressing I find mysterious, a melancholic picture touches me more than a lighthearted one because I find myself thinking much easier what a person could be
sad about, rather than happy, and so stories begin to form in my head, this leads me to create comics, I'd also like to create art based on history or a book, this is because as interesting as a book may be, sometimes people feel even closer to a story when they see a visual adaptation, I would like to someday make adaptations of classic novels, and even operas in hopes that youth can gain a knowledge on the classics.

I know that by being in this class I'll be able to use the skills I've learned to better myself in cartooning. By being in painting I'll have a more acute sense of detail and deeper understanding of perspective, above all else my patience will be tested and hopefully improved, oil painting is especially about patience so that the end results in perfection. I don't believe my dedication will wither because I have been waiting for a proper art instruction for years and never before have I felt challenged, I'm more grateful than anything to be in a school where I can gain as much as I'm willing to learn and I feel as if my will to learn is unlimited.