Warner,+K

Katie Warner For me, art is therapy. I make it to relax. Sometimes I just paint or draw things that make me happy. Maybe a painting of a baby isn’t the most profound or thought provoking piece, but that’s not what I was going for. My art is for me. I render things that make me smile, fond memories, and plans for the future. When I’m unhappy I’ll draw or paint things that express the way I feel. Many talented artists started out their careers learning the basics with realism, and that’s where I am. This is just the beginning for me so I want to learn to render well and then eventually branch out and really develop my own unique style. I started out by drawing in pencil, but I had to work to stop myself from erasing everything and ruining the paper. I love drawing on black board with white colored pencil because it allows me to really exaggerate shadows and to me makes a piece seem more dramatic and serious. I use white on black for my less cheerful pieces. For happier pieces, I discovered the joys of acrylic paint. I love that I can keep painting over an area until I like the way it looks. I make the colors in my paintings more pronounced than they really are because bold colors seem happy to me. The subjects in my work are usually people because people are the most difficult thing for me to render. Landscapes and objects are very forgiving; if it’s not a perfect replication of a mountain, for example, no one can really tell. It still looks like a mountain. If a person isn’t rendered extremely well, anyone who has seen that person will immediately know. I want to be as close to perfect as I can be in my ability to render, so I prefer to work with people. I also find faces, especially eyes, to be extremely interesting subjects. I love how minute differences in a facial expression can portray completely different emotions. Art isn’t easy for me, but it calms me down. I don’t know where I’d be if I couldn’t go to art class and focus on painting for forty-two minutes every day instead of thinking about difficult classes and college applications and all the other things that stress me out. ||
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