My final portfolio: Art History
Artist's Statement My work over the past year has helped me practice my skills as an artist, and also review and enjoy history from a new perspective. When I practice my art for this class I try to see many examples of similar work by the historical artists, and students today who are trying to re-construct different art forms. In this collection I liked how I used different materials, to help me experience how the world was, to those artists of history. In my work I try to use my skills of working with color, and try to capture the ancient artist’s methods, technology and techniques. The media that I use are chosen to help me work with bright colors. I like to use acrylic, oil pastels and marker pens. I use short strokes and I like to add lots of details. That helps me because historical art has a lot of details. Many of the artists of ancient times liked to fill up the entire spaces where the work was created. I use marker pens to add a...