GRAPHITE & MIXED MEDIA
CONCENTRATION SERIES
My concentration was focused on how music makes people feel. My family and I have always loved music and it has been something that has brought us closer and helped us bond. Whenever I listen to music it puts me in a headspace where nothing else matters; I get to dance and feel whatever the song wants to convey. Music has such deep meaning to me and knowing how music affects me, I wanted to see if I could peek behind the curtain and see if I could capture how music makes others feel.
To capture my reference images, I filmed the subjects while they listened to a series of their favorite songs. I then watched back the video and chose my favorite moments from the video and the final image was the one that I felt conveyed the most emotion. With my reference image, I drew each portrait with graphite. Working in graphite, I feel, helps the viewer pay more attention to the pose that the subject is in and the emotion that is being translated because it is black and white. The color that I added on top lends itself to the emotion as well. The color is what the subject feels like the song is portraying and it adds to the experience of viewing the piece and helps the viewer feel what the subject was feeling when the song was playing.
PAINTING AND DRAWING
In high school, I had the ​privilege of attending a Magnet school where I could pursue art in many forms. I attended this school for half the day, arriving at 7:30a and taking AP Studio Art, Dual Enrollment Art History, and Dual Enrollment Humanities and then would return to my regular high school to finish out my regular classes. I had access to any type of art supply I could think of and had the best teacher which allowed me to try anything. We also had such wonderful local guest artists that would come and teach us all kinds of different techniques.
These pieces are such benchmarks of my creative journey and I look back on them with fondness.
