Art III Honors Digital Portfolio

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Art III Honors Digital Portfolio

• Lauren Bullock

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Table of Contents

• Artist Statement
• Emotion Leaves, Prismacolor colored pencils,
  12x12 paper
• Emotion Leaves Description
• Still Life With Apple, acryllic paint, 12x16
  canvas panel
• Still Life With Apple Description
• Artemis, Pen and ink, 9x12 paper
• Artemis Description
• Listen, mixed media acryllic, magazine
  clippings, CD-ROM, 12x16 canvas to be added
• Speak, mixed media acryllic, magazine clippings,
  12x16 canvas to be added
• Listen and Speak Description
• more to be added

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Artist Statement

• Art has always been a major part of my life,
  whether it was through the various museums my
  mother insisted on visiting no matter where we
  went (Washington, D.C. New York City, New York
  Malaga, Spain.), through my mothers own
  paintings and web design, or through the love of
  drawing that was fostered in childhood.
• I like to look back on my earlier work and sum
  it up with the words, I just didnt know I
  couldnt. My very first doodles began with a
  preoccupation with cats, but by far my largest
  influence came from the Japanese cartoons known
  as anime, specifically the television show
  Sailor Moon. My earlier efforts show a clear
  correlation with the style of Sailor Moons
  creator, Naoko Takeuchi. Gradually this love for
  drawing cartoons combined with a deep love for
  story telling and developed into the production
  of comic pages and books starring various
  characters including, sometimes, myself. This
  brings us to what I believe has become the center
  of my work as an artist.
• My art history teacher, Dr. Susan Euler, once
  claimed that the most mentally unstable artists
  tend to have the most self-portraits (e.g.,
  Munch, Michelangelo, etc) because they are on a
  sort quest of self-discovery. I dont know how
  much truth actually lies in this sentiment, but
  it is a rather romantic notion that I choose to
  embrace for myself. Looking through my collection
  of characters that I use most often in comics and
  stories, one can see that I consistently use
  myself as a model in one way or another. Very
  recently this process of self-discovery has
  translated into various other media as well. For
  these reasons I think art has become a way to
  connect more fully with both myself and with the
  world around me, a way of traveling inside an
  object instead just looking at it from the
  outside.
• One of my greatest ambitions when it comes to
  art is to one day acquire the patience to master
  the medium of oil paints and paint with
  beautiful, clear realism like Jan van Eyck, once
  of my favorite artists of all time. In addition,
  I would eventually like to develop a successful
  comic book. Both will take a lot of effort and
  concentration, but in the meantime I would like
  to focus on expanding my artistic horizons by
  discovering and becoming skilled in the use of
  various media before transitioning art from a
  hobby to a career choice.

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Still Life With Apple
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Still Life with Apple Description
description to be added
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Artemis

• picture to be added

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Artemis Description

• Let me start by saying I dont like the face.
  The shadows are all wrong, but Im too afraid to
  go near it.
• This sketch took several days to draw out in
  graphite. Afterwards, however, I feel a few hours
  of inkwork completely ruined the image.
• The shadows are a bit overwhelming--- even I
  feel dizzy when I look at the picture. The one
  point I do like, though, is the hair it adds a
  nice focal point where the eye can get lost in
  the folds of the dress and---whoa! Back to the
  hair.
• My biggest trouble aside from inking was
  repeating the swirl pattern. The original reason
  for even adding the swirl was because my
  inspiration was classic Art Nouveau pieces and I
  tried to give my picture that same organic feel
  to it.
• The name Artemis is sort of a cop-out I have
  no real idea whether the woman sitting there is
  an incarnation of Artemis (Greek moon goddess) or
  Diana (Roman equivalent), or any goddess at all
  for that matter.

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Emotion Leaves

• picture to be added

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Emotion Leaves Description

• The evolution of this piece was, in a word,
  excruciating. I went through several different
  ideas before finally deciding on this one, and
  even then the initial sketch took many re-tries.
• Overall, I would have to say that despite my
  attempts anger came across as the dominate
  emotion, most likely due to the fact that it is
  the only face appearing to have open eyes and
  therefore communicating directly to the audience.
  The angle of sadness strikes me as odd, and,
  ironically, I am not happy with happiness
  because of how strange the shape turned out, as
  well as the blue flecks that ended up streaked
  through it.
• The leaves in the background are one of my
  favorite parts I put a lot of research into how
  the leaves looked, so the colors and shapes are
  all accurate and even native to the North
  Carolina region!

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Listen

• picture to be added

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Speak

• picture to be added

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Listen and Speak Description