Cody Jeff
ART 106.006
Instructor: Julia Lambright
April 19, 2016
In this blog posting, I will discuss artists from the website, drawingcenter.org. In this discussion, I will choose five artists I admire, five artists I do not understand, and finally a describe why an artist from the admiration sections is meaningful to me.
To begin, I will discuss the artists I admire. Those artists are Mia Wen-Hsuan Liu, Robert Sparrow Jones, Amy Jean Porter, Susan Marie Brudage, and Katherine M. Patterson.
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| "Mir Panorama" gouache on paper 2013 by Susan Marie Brundage |
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| "I am Mia Liu (Detail)" Guggenheim Museum tickets, India ink and Plywood 2008 by Mia Wen-Hsuan Liu |
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| "Hart" Graphite on Arches Paper 2013 by Robert Sparrow Jones |
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| "Pipevine Swallowtail, from Butterfly Messages" gouache and ink on clayboard by Amy Jean Porter |
Next, the artists that I do not quite understand are Male Deleine Hope Arthurs, Arpie Gennetian Najaroan, Anne Austin Pearce, Eva Eun-Sil Han, and Andrew Cooks.
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| "double_mind" collage_graphite_on paper 2007 by Eva Eun-Sil Han |
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| "and in Ponds broken off from the sky XI" oil, metallic pigment & pencil on paper 2010 by Andrew Cooks |
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| "Self-Portrait 22" ink 2013 by Male Deleine Hope Arthurs |
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| "circle&strings1" colored pencil, pencil ink, paper & thread on paper 2011 by Arpie Gennetian Najarian |
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| "gut arhe" ink, colored pencil, and pen on paper by Anne Austin Pearce |
Finally, the artist that made herself distinct and exemplary in my perspective was Katherine M. Patterson. My reasoning for choosing this artist is because my history of drawing animals, the dynamic values, and the artist's reasoning for art.
When I first began experimenting with art more seriously in my sophomore year of college, as a hobby for my past time. I was not particularly fond of drawing people at the time, mainly due to my lack of ability drawing proportions and basic drawing fundamentals in general. However, proportions on animals were not as apparent as those on humans, so I quickly found my drawings of animals to be more successful. An additional reasoning for animals was my love for animals. Animals in general always caught my interest whether it be the wolves in the National Geographic magazines, the Audubon birds, or my dogs outside. Whatever the reason may be, my love for animals still carry with me to this day as I strive to apply my skills to best capture the raw nature of these creatures.
In this image below, which is the initial image that caught my attention of a wolf, you may see why I chose this artist. As mentioned above, you see myself emerging as an artist who was not at comfortable level with art materials and mediums. An art medium I quickly became acquainted with was ink. The reason I chose ink was because how it contrasted so well with the white background of paper. And it is a quality and eye that I continue to preserve to this day especially with becoming more familiar with graphite and charcoal. As you see below, when I was first starting in art, I thought this type of contrast was only possible with black ink, but experimenting with various mediums, I quickly disproved.
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| "Sleeping Wolf" pencil on paper 2009 by Katherine M. Patterson |
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| "Pygmy Owl" pencil on paper 2009 by Katherine M. Patterson |
In this final, but not insignificant section, the artist statement. Patterson describes her depiction of animals in darkness, whether with a companion or not, as alone or isolated. Using this mindset and viewing the artist's images, you quickly feel what the author was edging at. It seems the author captures this sense of nature where you are alone in the forest and darkness creeps in on you, yet as people we may fear it, animals live with it. I believe this artist statement brings up a valuable concept in art, which is finding your own style. I understand this is a highly valued goal and often discussed among striving artists, but I enjoy this art style, along with those I have chosen as artists I like and even those I do not understand. Similar to how I viewed art prior to this class and before drawing, I thought art as something static, unchanging, but similar to the human insight, I believe it open to change and creativity.
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