Hello!
Intro Survey
Name: Kayleen
Age: 27
Sex: Female
Location: Southwest MN
Why do you love art so much? It's something that I understand. I feel like I can talk about it and people listen to me, and learn from me. I love sharing my skills with my students and helping them discover their own skills and ideas. For myself, making artwork helps me focus and I'm able to process things, think about them more clearly, while I'm working.
What kind of art do you do? Personally, I like doing pencil and charcoal drawings, especially portraits (although I don't think it's my strongest area.) Lately I've been getting more into mixed media pieces on canvas with fabric, stamping, and paint. I also like working with spray paint and stencils though I haven't explored that a lot. Throwing on the pottery wheel continues to be one of the most relaxing and enjoyable activities I do.
Are you or have you ever been an art student? I majored in Art Education in college (graduated in 2006), and I took photography and pottery classes in high school. In college, I took classes in drawing, watercolor, painting, graphic design, metalsmithing, sculpture, pottery, and printmaking.
What are you doing with your life, career wise? I'm halfway through my fourth year teaching Art to high school students. I teach Art I, Art II, and Art III. In every class we do projects in drawing, painting, pottery, printmaking, sculpture, and photography.
What was the best art class you've ever taken? Life Drawing during my sophomore year of college. We had live, nude models every class, it was three hours long, and my professor was brutal. Very high expectations, very strict. I was exhausted after class, but I learned so much about anatomy, drawing, and how to discipline yourself.
What was the best art assignment you've ever had? There have been so many... most recently, I went to a self-portrait workshop over the summer and our final project was a self-portrait. I spent a lot of time exploring my feelings about my past, how I handled things, where I want to go in the future.
What is your art inspiration? Music, sometimes I will start to see compositions of colors, objects, textures, while listening to music. Much of the artwork I make is gifts for people, or things they ask me to make for them. I am also drawn to the human body, bones, anatomical charts, etc.
Who/what are some of your favorite famous artists/works of art? (pictures/links welcome!) Marcel Duchamp, Bernini, Kasimir Malevich, Edward Munch, Banksy, Tom Friedman, Chuck Close, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, there are so many! My favorite works of art are Apollo and Daphne by Bernini (in the Borghese Gallery in Rome) and Suprematist Composition: White on White (at the MOMA in NYC.) I've been fortunate enough to have seen both of them in person.
Show off some of your favorite pieces you've created: This is the self-portrait I mentioned earlier...
And some more pieces from that same workshop...
I'm excited about sharing and getting ideas for my classes from this community. Cheers!
Name: Kayleen
Age: 27
Sex: Female
Location: Southwest MN
Why do you love art so much? It's something that I understand. I feel like I can talk about it and people listen to me, and learn from me. I love sharing my skills with my students and helping them discover their own skills and ideas. For myself, making artwork helps me focus and I'm able to process things, think about them more clearly, while I'm working.
What kind of art do you do? Personally, I like doing pencil and charcoal drawings, especially portraits (although I don't think it's my strongest area.) Lately I've been getting more into mixed media pieces on canvas with fabric, stamping, and paint. I also like working with spray paint and stencils though I haven't explored that a lot. Throwing on the pottery wheel continues to be one of the most relaxing and enjoyable activities I do.
Are you or have you ever been an art student? I majored in Art Education in college (graduated in 2006), and I took photography and pottery classes in high school. In college, I took classes in drawing, watercolor, painting, graphic design, metalsmithing, sculpture, pottery, and printmaking.
What are you doing with your life, career wise? I'm halfway through my fourth year teaching Art to high school students. I teach Art I, Art II, and Art III. In every class we do projects in drawing, painting, pottery, printmaking, sculpture, and photography.
What was the best art class you've ever taken? Life Drawing during my sophomore year of college. We had live, nude models every class, it was three hours long, and my professor was brutal. Very high expectations, very strict. I was exhausted after class, but I learned so much about anatomy, drawing, and how to discipline yourself.
What was the best art assignment you've ever had? There have been so many... most recently, I went to a self-portrait workshop over the summer and our final project was a self-portrait. I spent a lot of time exploring my feelings about my past, how I handled things, where I want to go in the future.
What is your art inspiration? Music, sometimes I will start to see compositions of colors, objects, textures, while listening to music. Much of the artwork I make is gifts for people, or things they ask me to make for them. I am also drawn to the human body, bones, anatomical charts, etc.
Who/what are some of your favorite famous artists/works of art? (pictures/links welcome!) Marcel Duchamp, Bernini, Kasimir Malevich, Edward Munch, Banksy, Tom Friedman, Chuck Close, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, there are so many! My favorite works of art are Apollo and Daphne by Bernini (in the Borghese Gallery in Rome) and Suprematist Composition: White on White (at the MOMA in NYC.) I've been fortunate enough to have seen both of them in person.
Show off some of your favorite pieces you've created: This is the self-portrait I mentioned earlier...
And some more pieces from that same workshop...
I'm excited about sharing and getting ideas for my classes from this community. Cheers!