"Scratching is where creativity begins. It is the moment where your ideas first take flight and begin to defy gravity. If you try to rein it in, you'll never know how high you can go."
Scratching is a term that Tharp uses to describe the process of How not Where she gets her inspiration from, where her ideas stem from. I love the way she describes it, especially the part of scratching that I have quoted on the top of this entry from the reading. She first goes on to talk about BIG and little ideas, good and bad ideas in a way that is both obvious yet insightful. After that she goes on to explain her concept of scratching.
The definition I got from the passage on scratching is: every part of the the design process, not including actual physical work on the piece, is scratching. Scratching is the little ideas you get from your surroundings, the images that pop into your head when you see this or hear that, or even the feeling you get on a certain day. Your "journey" for inspiration is the idea of scratching.
For me, although the reading went on to talk about more things, scratching was the most important part. For senior studio I have struggled thinking of not what to do my art work on, but how to do it (how it should look, what materials etc...) But over the break I got a BIG idea, one that I consider a good idea, on how my piece should look. I took the quote from the passage that I put on top of this post there because I feel that I have scratched out an idea that can fly to the highest heights.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Me... The senior artist
Art as a whole for me was a journey these past couple of years, the destination unknown, the price unimaginable, but the lesson unforgettable. I have found myself in so many ways through art, but most importantly, I found growth. I found the never ending evolution of art, and how it has directly affected me as an artist, and as a person.
My journey started as a young freshman with only drawings of fictional characters in his sketchbook. Art was nothing more than my hand, a pencil, some printer paper, and an endless imagination. I was content with that, until art decided to change on me. It grew first into being my hand, charcoal, newsprint, and an endless imagination. Now art has blossomed into being my body, an endless array of tools, any surface, and an endless imagination. Although art these past years drastically changed my technique, it kept one thing untouched.
Stepping away from the artistic writing, my art has changed so much since my freshman year, the most important change was finding my love for mixed media. It seems that now every piece I make has some sort of mixed media component, in fact, the main piece of my portfolio was a mixed media piece. Back in 9th grade I would have thought that piece would be a sketch of something.
Also, I have noticed an evolution in the themes I use to create art. Before I would try to make art about themes by making a picture about that theme directly, now I portray the emotion of that theme directly to my canvas, I also have noticed I incorporate flowers into most of my pieces.
For Senior Studio I want to create a collection, or just one big piece, based on the Seven deadly sins: Gluttony, Wrath, Pride, Lust, Greed, Sloth, and Envy. I want these pieces to show the darker side to art I have, because I feel I haven't tapped into that side so much.
So this was Me... The senior artist
My journey started as a young freshman with only drawings of fictional characters in his sketchbook. Art was nothing more than my hand, a pencil, some printer paper, and an endless imagination. I was content with that, until art decided to change on me. It grew first into being my hand, charcoal, newsprint, and an endless imagination. Now art has blossomed into being my body, an endless array of tools, any surface, and an endless imagination. Although art these past years drastically changed my technique, it kept one thing untouched.
Stepping away from the artistic writing, my art has changed so much since my freshman year, the most important change was finding my love for mixed media. It seems that now every piece I make has some sort of mixed media component, in fact, the main piece of my portfolio was a mixed media piece. Back in 9th grade I would have thought that piece would be a sketch of something.
Also, I have noticed an evolution in the themes I use to create art. Before I would try to make art about themes by making a picture about that theme directly, now I portray the emotion of that theme directly to my canvas, I also have noticed I incorporate flowers into most of my pieces.
For Senior Studio I want to create a collection, or just one big piece, based on the Seven deadly sins: Gluttony, Wrath, Pride, Lust, Greed, Sloth, and Envy. I want these pieces to show the darker side to art I have, because I feel I haven't tapped into that side so much.
So this was Me... The senior artist
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