Tag: art nerd

  • Getting The Vibe Right

    I like to compose works that invite the viewer to feel a certain essence from the piece. For example, a playful, eerie, or soft and relaxed vibe. That is the first thing I want someone to say about the piece before they dissect it further. If I fail to communicate that, then I have failed with the piece. The whole thing falls apart. The artwork is total garbage.

    Over the summer, one of the big things I want to work on is effective communication. So hopefully, keep the conversation on topic. My work is more about evoking the feelings I feel. It really confuses me when a different emotion comes up. It annoys me. So that just means I have to get better at creating the right stimulus for the intended reaction. Which just means understanding design principles and manipulating them to achieve the outcome I want. Instead of wasting away and watching brain rot, I’ll gladly spend my time studying art.

    With the image I am using today, I was going for something that felt eerie, somewhat surreal, keeping it to a simple design and color palette. One of the design elements I was using was scale. For instance, to give a sense of distance between the bird and the tree, and to enunciate the important shapes. I used orange-red against the blue to really direct the eyes.

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    Maybe I am just a control freak, or autism doesn’t allow me to see a different perspective because of black and white thinking…

    I really want people to see the work as I see it.

  • Getting To Know Philly

    It is a lot of walking

    The city of Philadelphia has a lot to offer and, coming from a train ride away from northern Delaware, it is a city that I would visit for Phillies games and museum trips. But now, in three and a half months, I will be moving to go to Temple to hopefully get my degree in visual studies at Tyler.

    With being on the autism spectrum, it is important I prepare and get used to how things work. So it is not a shock to my system like my first try. With not being able to drive. (Thank God!) Learning how SEPTA works is pretty important, but it was not too hard.

    Really, I chose to go to Temple and Philly in general because of the local art and DIY scene.

    More of what I want to do is in Philadelphia.

    The walks have been lovely. Been taking in the different architecture. I have just been exploring and drawing in the parks.

    Just getting use to the city.

  • My Brain And Art

    my autistic brain having a special interest in art

    I would say modern to contemporary art is a special interest of mine. It has affected my life choices. For instance, the path I chose for my college education. There are going to be visual studies at Temple this fall.

    How has it affected me consuming art?

    I get totally obsessed. I mean I made this blog to talk about it. Not only do I have to know the history, but also how it was made, and I try to recreate it by learning the techniques in my own art. It keeps me up at night. I can spend hours just sucking in a piece trying to analyze the tiniest sections. It is my life. Like I love learning about non-representational art. I am a very design-oriented person, and I can really spend hours researching a piece.

    Some things I can go on about are the impressionist being inspired by Spanish painters for their looser style. I can go on and on about Marcel Duchamp and dadaism. Currently, they are hyper fixated on dadaism right now, for instance. Talk about the history of college art. There is a lot.

    I cannot be normal when I see an artist’s piece I have been studying, because I get really excited about it. I will talk my mouth off if I get the chance to talk about a movement I have been studying. It can get exhausting because of how much it consumes me. That is why I say it is a special interest, because of how much it affects my life. At least it gives me a ton of inspiration.

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  • Relating To Wassily Kandinsky

    Art arranged as music. It is something that I have not been able to get out of my head. For the past few weeks. I have been researching digital music making to college making.

    Well, how does that relate to Kandinsky?

    It had all started with my modern art history class and learning about Kandinsky and his different groups of artists.

    How they captured movement.

    I have been totally obsessed with and have done some deep research with the help of an old professor of mine.

    Mainly, because Kandinsky thought about his pieces as musical compositions. Something that I have not figured out is how to portray the compositions in my head.

    BUT! I did make a piece that is part of my recent deep dives for an upcoming summit inspired by the world of digital music making and how musicians use sampling. While I brought that in college form using found objects, for example, like old receipts, figure drawings from another class, random shiny paper I had, graph paper, and test paper for testing out acrylic ink. While layering acrylic paint to physically represent the many layers in a song.