Art Blog: My Pantry: Oil Pastel on Cardboard

December 18, 2010

My Pantry: Oil Pastel on Cardboard

"My Pantry" October 2010

Oil Pastel on Cardboard

This was my first time working with oil pastels, and I really enjoyed learning how to manipulate the colors, and working with different blending techniques. I used several different types of oil pastels and found that I enjoy using the waxier pastels versus the smoother ones. The image itself is a portion of the foods in my pantry. When focusing on each detail of this image, I was able to learn a lot about my culture. This has definitely been one of my favorite projects so far!

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Artist's Statement

My history of art classes is limited to a brief Art Foundations class my freshman year, and the two years I will have been an IB Art student. Although my classroom hours are very few, I have always had an interest and love for all styles of art. So, although my appreciation (unfortunately) does not match my level of experience, I am working to improve.
After my first year in my higher level IB Art class, I had experimented in countless styles, and forms of visual arts. These include: acrylic painting, lino-cut prints, charcoal, pencil drawings, paper mache, pastels, ceramics, reduction prints, photo montages, paper stenciling.. etc. After being exposed to these art forms I found where my strengths and weaknesses lie, and eventually decided to narrow my study to painting.
Luckily, IB Art is not only a studio class, but an art studies class as well. Throughout the two years, I have studied artists such as Chuck Close, Andy Goldsworthy, Mark Chagall, Roy Lichtenstein, Andrew Wyeth, Gustav Klimt, DaVinci, Dennis McNett, Frida Kahlo, and countless others. Each has helped to build my own voice as a painter, which seems to be getting stronger with each painting.
My paintings tend to be bold, with clear lines, and limited intricate detail. I spend the majority of the time working with the colors, blending and layering them to get the effect I am aiming for. In the future, I hope to keep my current style, however work to make the images more detailed and full with a more disciplined layout.