I watched the Lunchtime Lecture with the artist Theodora Miller, who became a painter after a brain injury as part of her recovery process. She is a contemporary artist who works with a number of different media exploring different textures and themes. I found it interesting how she did not study art but would try to find ways to be creative, often through crafting and then started taking classes at the VMFA in painting, only picking up painting while recovering from a severe concussion. I was also interested in how she was painting out her emotions in her early work, during this concussion, especially I found the repetition of these circular shapes in these pieces. I found it interesting how she uses wood panels often, building up layers of gesso, then lots of layers of paint, before covering it some with white paint. I think this amount of layering is really interesting in how she has been able to put some thing on a canvas and then take it away and then even put it back again some times. I was also interested in how she deconstructed words in some of her most recent pieces, pulling in greek letters and stylizing them, and some of my favorites of these had the same complex layering as her earlier pieces. Overall I think her journey as an artist has been very interesting and I enjoyed learning about how she created all these different pieces through her layering process.
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These are the process photos from the in class work I had done, which was much more difficult as I was working without a mannequin, thus had to keep reworking stencils using myself as a template, which slowed down the initial pattern making and design, so I spend the first few days of in class work to create stencils and build the form itself. Then for the final few days I mapped out and glued on all of the major detailing pieces before mapping out where I was going to put foam clay, adding some initial vines to the arm and filling in gaps with it. I ended up having to finish the project at home and forgot to take pictures during that process. I added more vines and scratches using the foam clay using the marks I did in class as a guide. Then I made a wire armature for the vines to figure out their form and then covered them with foam clay. I then painted the piece.
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Avarice StankiewiczHi, I'm Avarice, though I mostly go by Kace, I'm an art 5 student at Maggie Walker Governor's school and page is just a space for some reflection, research and progress photos for my work. Archives
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