TAPE ART MURAL - in the style of art all state

During the art show, Austin and I helped on the collaborative installation of a tape art mural in the science wing. Initially, we started with a paint palette on one side of windows, and a paintbrush and pencil on the other set of windows. The prompt we came up with was "What does art mean to you?" which we wrote on the top of the mural. Austin worked on putting empty "paint" circles on the paint palette for kids at the art show to fill in. I worked on the paintbrush and pencil on the other side, and filled in words around the mural as well as some of the circles. The best part of working on it was engaging with other people working on it, it seemed like the kids really enjoyed working on the mural and adding to it. It was nice that the mural was open to interpretation as it progressed because at the beginning stage of the mural one student asked us if we were working on a submarine under water.

Waltham Mills Final Project Artist Statement

This work was originally inspired by my annual visit to the Waltham Mills Open Studios and the work of artist Sarah Leon. At the Mills I was able to speak to her about her artistic practice, and her process for creating large-scale acrylic paintings from her imagination. In these works, she used color to create a sense of place, and I wanted to emulate that approach in my piece. This year, I made a goal to use more vibrant colors in my art, and aimed to work on large scale non-representational pieces. In this work I explored the transportive quality of a doorway from the perspective of looking down a hallway. This painting contains many layers as I began working on it in December, and finished in May. Each layer has different colors to provide depth to the colors on the layers on top. The composition of this work was intentional, and I applied deep purple on the edges of the canvas to vignette the scene. On top of the acrylic paint, I used glazing medium and alizarin crimson paint to achieve a unified final layer.