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Aesthetic Interpretation: A particular emotional or expriemental understanding most often used in reference to a poem or piece of literature. Also known to apply to a work of visual art or performance.
How can I invoke aesthetic interpretation from emotionally inspired creations?
My intent for every piece I made was to create almost an open ended interpretation. I want people to look at my art and feel something that moves them. I want my pieces to spark interest in trying to find the motive behind them. My art has no specific motive other than expressing an emotion I feel strongly at the time of its creation. The goal of this entire portfolio was to create emotional pieces that are open to interpretation and an outlet for my personal emotions.
Over the course of creating my portfolio, I often had to revise and practice on some of my pieces. I spent a lot of my time using inspiration and mediums I've struggled with. For example I've never been good at creating pieces with accurate proportions of people. As you'll see in many of my pieces, people became the vocal point in majority of my pieces. Same goes for the use of watercolor. This portfolio really challenged me in creating realistic and emotional pieces using mediums and models that I used to struggle with, that I now prefer over my older methods of creation. I am happy to say I'm proud of my improvement and how this portfolio portrays that.
Blood Shot
Blood Shot
Image 1
Height: 18 inch
Width: 12 inch
Materials: Acrylic Paint
Processes: Initial Sketch on canvas, Paint mixing to create dark reds, Paint, Additional finer details.
This piece is inspired by the feeling of anxiety that you're constantly being watched. Always fearing you may make a mistake.
Piled Up
Piled Up
Image 2
Height: 7 inch
Width: 10 inch
Materials: India Ink
Processes: Mono type print, remove ink with q-tip, free handed, pressed onto paper from matrix.
Piled up is almost a metaphorical piece. Its a visual representation of things becoming too stressful and as named "pilling up".
Aprósopi Agápi
Aprósopi Agápi
"Faceless Love"
"Faceless Love"
Image 3
Height: 9 inch
Width: 8 inch
Materials: India Ink
Processes: Mono type print, remove ink with cardboard square, press onto paper from matrix, add finer details with sharpie.
A piece I made last year more on whim. When I dive deeper into this piece, I see the fear in his face. Almost as if he's afraid or angry with his own existence.
Àllaxe Kardià
Àllaxe Kardià
"change of heart"
"change of heart"
Image 4
Height: 11 inch
Width: 36 inch Materials: Watercolor Ink
Processes: Heart reference photos, digital art, trace onto paper, watercolor dimensions and realism, repeat but deform, Exacto knife edges, glue onto background.
Allaxe Kardia is showcasing the idea of metamorpahasis. My goal was to combine a feeling to a physical object. The idea of love to me is so deep that someone can truly transform and make home within your heart.
The Butterfly Method
The Butterfly Method
Image 5
Height: 11 inch
Width: 14 inch
Materials: Acrylic Paint
The Butterfly Method is a piece that was really hard yet freeing for me to create. It's creation was made to shine a softer light onto SH. When I struggled with SH I used something called The Butterfly Method, which involved drawing a butterfly on your place of choice. The goal was not to harm the butterfly. Thus giving this piece it's name.
Processes: Hand and Butterfly references, digital art rough sketch, trace onto paper, transfer to canvas, mix and add acrylic paint to add color and realism, outline with sharpie.
Fake News
Fake News
Image 6
Height: 9 inch
Width: 12 inch
Materials: Book/Clay/Paper Mache/Paint
The main idea behind Fake News was based on the lies the media puts forth and the choke hold it genuinely has on the public (thus the hand).
Processes: Glue pages of book together in open position, paint cover of book, create hand out of clay, glue onto book, paper mache hand, collage on open page, paint and write to add finer details.
All the Good Girls go to Hell
All the Good Girls go to Hell
Image 7
Height: 8 inch
Width: 11 inch
Materials: Water Color
I take much pride in this piece. It portrays the idea of sin. Everyone is a sinner no matter how "good" of a person you are. Perfection is something I believe humans are incapable of doing.
Processes: Picture reference, digital art rough sketch, tansfer to paper, add watercolor for realism, water color ink for finer details.
Admiration
Admiration
Image 8
Height: 12 inch
Width: 8 inch
Materials: Digital Art
Processes: Picture Reference to Digital Art sketch
Admiration is one of the simplist ideas I've made into a piece. As it's name shows, we see someone who is unaware of being photographed by the person who admires them most.
Self Image
Self Image
Image 9
Height: 12 inch
Width: 10 inch
Materials: Digital Art
Processes: Picture reference to Digital art sketch
A self portrait. Something I vowed to never create due to self dismorphia. This piece challenged me to become better at proportions and see myself as I'm seen by others.
The Vile Overtaking of Inner Deflection>
The Vile Overtaking of Inner Deflection>
Image 11
Height: 13 inch
Width: 11 inch
Materials: Collage/Print Making
Processes: Cut up pre created print making fail, glue pieces and magazine cut out to black background, messy with pen and watercolor ink.
A mixed media work that was created out of pure frustration. No initial idea, just emotion transferred onto paper.
<Visage Amour
<Visage Amour
Image 10
Height: 10 inch
Width: 9.5 inch
Materials: Water Color
Processes: Picture reference, add kiss marks, digital sketch, transfer to paper, add water color to create realism.
Despite it's bubbly apperance, Visage Amor dives deeper than the surface. We see a man surrounded by color and covered in kisses. Yet he has a very meloncholy expression. The goal was to showcase a man rejecting the constant love he recieves.
Locked Jaw 3D>
Locked Jaw 3D>
Image 13
Height: 4 inch.
Width: 4 inch
Materials: Clay/Acrylic Paint
Processes: Use 2D version as reference, creat base, teeth, and tongue out of clay, let dry over several days, paint with acrylic paint, mix paint and elmers glue to make goop, let dry, spray tounge and teeth and goop with gloss top coat.
<Locked Jaw 2D
<Locked Jaw 2D
Image 12
Height: 12 inch
Width: 8 inch
Materials: Digital Art
Processes: Jaw bone picture reference to Digital art sketch
(16) Locked Jaw 3DBoth Locked Jaw 2d and 3d are a visual idea of inner toxins. Toxic thoughts that build up so much they begin to kill you from inside out and start spreading.
Homage
Homage
Image 14
Height: 9.5 inch
Width: 8 inch
Materials: Watercolor
Processes: Started with a digital art sketch inspired by the physical piece, then transferred onto water color paper, outlined in pen, and completed with red watercolor.
A dedication art piece to "Cant Help Myself" (taken down in 2019). Cant Help Myself has always been a piece that moved me emotionally unlike any other artwork. It was very crushing to find out it had been closed down and claimed "non repairable" in 2019.
Divine Feminine
Divine Feminine
Image 15
Height: 13 inch
Width: 12 inch
Materials: Water color/ Posco pens
Processes: Inspiration picture created into a digital rough sketch, transferred to water color paper, detailed with dark grey water color, finer details added with posco pens.
Inspired by my favorite album "Divine Feminine" by Mac Miller, this piece portrays the beauty and love behind women the same way the album does.
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