Artist's

I had a chance along side five other young artists to give a speech about my work. I however do not want to speak about my work but the others. Going through almost four years of the same classes with these students we still learn something new about them and their work all the time. Amanda Scott, Blane Seibert, Jake Miller, Rose Thornhill, and Kimi Smart along with myself gave a public presentation on Friday March 28th aobut our life and work.
    Rose Thornhill, her insprirations are based a lot off of Manga based magazines and cartoons and films. She is also a creative writer and great illustrator. She has written several of her own novels and made her own illustrations for her characters. She has a very imaginative mind. The illustrations were in character designs consisting of turn arounds and expressions. She also made a short comic of her story and she then made gif's. Her works are very imaginative and has a very anime look and feel to it. She grew up a good part of her life with out her parents and moved around a lot so art was her way of dealing that.
     Jake Miller, his work is based on western and steampunk mostly. His inspirations were on the movies of our child hood like lion king, land before time, hercules, and so on.  His interest lies mostly in the heroic figure and monsters, Godzilla is a favorite. He has created some scenes of the hero figure coming to same the "scene" and or the impossible odds of the hero and a really freakishly huge "monster".
      Blane Seibert is a huge snowboarding fan. He and  his friend has a great dream of owning their very own snowboarding business some day. Blane designs his own designs for snowboards and skateboards, and other kinds of boards. His big inspiration is based on the burton company which is the company that...yes you guessed it....designs snowboards. Blane has learned that designing is not as easy as may seem because the shape of the board is not an easy shape to design on.
      Kimi Smart is a ceramics major. She is only artist in the group that was not a commercial art major. Kimi makes pots based off of her native american heritage.  Her grandmother is full (i think) cherokee and wore the clothes, had all the blankets and created the jewelery with turquise. Kimi embraces her native american heritage and shows that in her pots. She has created pots that have native patterns, bears, whirling shapes. She carves into her pots creating a depth and she recently started painting with acrylics. Kimi is currently in contact with a man that has, along with his wife, a ceramics shop. He creates big pots and his wife paints them. An amazing thing about Kimi is that she never touched clay till she attended PittState. She, along with her family had visited several European museums in her high schools year and she was just entranced by the art work of the master sculptures. She then decided that she wanted to do that.
     Amanda Scott and I have very similar interests but are still very different. Amanda's work is on character designing and illustrations. She has a very cartoon-y and very silly appeal. She has created this crazy ostrich frank from a previous commercial art class and that started a series of ostriches that could be other ostriches with him at the insane asylum or are his alter egos. She leaves the relation up to the imagination of the viewer rather than giving you a really defined story. She works with Photoshop and iPad. SHe prefers to sketch up, ink, and watercolor.
       Attending (participating) in these speeches you get to see the "behind the scenes" of the artist and learn more about their life. It really is an eye opener to listen to the artist talk about their work. It is like when that light comes on and your like oh i get it. It is also surprising if you learned next to these people and watched them develop for nearly four years and to then hear a more indepth past of them and their interest, inspirations and life.