My exhibition is a visual walkthrough of the different materials I’ve used over the years. It does not include all the mediums and different materials I’ve used but some of them are very familiar to me and others are new and I’ve only tried once. I started with oil paints in my slide show because that’s my most used medium. The first time I used oil paints was in 6th grade and I’ve been using and practicing with them ever since. Then the next three are drawings. Both charcoal and graphite. I included those three because they are my most commonly used mediums for drawings. I don’t usually use colored pencils or oil pastels. I then move on to the pieces I’ve created that are made with materials I’m not familiar with. They are both forms of printing. One is an etching and the other is a screen print. I think the main thing I wanted to convey was just a flow through of materials. And what you can create with them. Sometimes I’m nervous to try new materials because I don’t want my piece to turn out bad and I just don’t know how to use different materials.

I had different ideas of what my show would be but for some reason there would be something that made it harder to do, like including digital pieces but I’d have to print something out to hang it up. I've had a hard time in the past and I still do with finding my own style with art. Last year I was into creating more, in a way disturbing pieces of art. To me they weren’t scary, I just wanted people to feel as if there was a deeper meaning behind them and that would catch their eye. So Unity and Dazed and Confused are examples of that. And now even though I still don’t have one specific style that’s all my own, I’ve turned my interest to the female body. I've been on a long journey of finding myself and learning what I need to better myself and to accept my body. And even though I’m not where I want to be with my own acceptance, I know what I want and realize that any body shape should be accepted. No matter what it looks like. So recently I've been combining the women into my art and other things I love, such as fashion and fruits, and plants. I've tried different techniques for my paintings like applying a layer of wax to add a different texture under my painting. Or applying a thick layer of paint and letting the top layer dry then pulling it down to make it look like sagging skin. I do really enjoy my ‘newer’ style of painting, it's not exactly my aesthetic. For painting I like to use darker colors and then add pops of bright color, but with this newer style it involves really bright colors and I sometimes don’t really know what to do with the final product because it doesn’t go with anything that I have. So I plan to have a show sometime in the future so that someone who loves them more then me will find a better home for them.

I organized my exhibition by colors. I wanted all the drawings and prints to go together because I knew that they would mix well together and the combination of the small prints would catch the eye especially when all the colors correspond to each other. I was going to hang up the main things together but I didn’t have a way to hang them because I used all of the sticky things for the drawings. So I took the pictures individually on a hook we had there already. The paintings don’t really match with one another and that’s kind of a reason I wanted them to be separate from the drawing. Because I knew the colors would clash. They don’t look terrible together but they're all different styles so it looks a bit strange. If I had a wall that i was able to fit everything together I’d implement the paintings in between the drawings and I think then it would look nice. I just wanted the viewer to hastily glide over the pieces but also notice the detail as well.