I've experimented with making videos before, obviously nothing to this extent though, because it has always intrigued me and I love editing videos. Whenever I go on trips I take little videos of anything and everything and in the end when I get home I put them together with music (to me, its extremely satisfying). I want to look more into it to see what else I can create, and I love what Sasha Water Freyer had to say about it. Her job connects with her passion, but it's also like a hobby for her. That scares me a little because I feel like I would slowly lose the time to edit all of the film and then eventually just stop making them. All of her work are long projects created over a long period of time, which i think is really cool because your vision.goal can change so much during that time, but you also get such a long time to think about it so in the end it really is what you wanted. She runs into issues that the majority of people have issues with (finance, time, etc). I also love her emphasis on studying what you're passionate about. A lot of people, especially people my age, gravitate towards what their friends are doing, are pressured from their parts and do what they want, and/or don't even know what they want to do (which is me). That's all understandable, and I know at some point I'll find what I want to do, but some people don't ever plan on abandoning their parents dream for their own, which is terrible life to live because you won't succeed without doing something you don't love.
2 Comments
I was intimidated by this project going into it mostly because I've never done anything like it. Even after my two practice paintings I still didn't know what I wanted to do. There were so many options as to what I could do with the paint I was just overwhelmed. I thought I had a picture in my head of what I wanted but I ended up doing something completely different. I had a handle on what I wanted by first layer to be, so that was a simple process. After see what it looked like when i started one of my practicing paintings (the one that I took the most inspiration from for my final piece) with a base color straight from the can I knew that that was something I did not want to do. I feel like it kind of ruined the painting, especially because you can see it on the edges (which is something I really don't like about my final painting but I'll probably just leave it be). After painting that layer I started with the charcoal, which was just a bunch of large marks (some random and some more geometric) that I threw on the piece. I knew I wanted to add the white, thicker paint but I never really thought about how I was going to do it with the charcoal (going around it versus going on top of it). I started with just going around it and trying to blend it, which ended up working in the end but it wasn't giving the blending effect that I wanted and I didn't like how it looked. The only reason I liked it was because of the colors. However, after going in with my final layer I started liking how it looked. I didn't get the blood red color I wanted but because of how I mixed the color i had a lot of extra black which ended up being a good mistake. I applied the red/purple color and blended it with black on the painting, and I did the same thing with the blue (that was the same color as my first layer). I feel like its kind of simple because its the same thing all throughout the painting, but I really like how it turned out even though it wasn't what i was expected. |
Julianne
|