Posted by: admin in MyBlog on Jul 10, 2009
Hi All! I have been hoping for a few artists to feature on this site & since the second most desired topic was in fact "artists & their art" here we are!! If you wish to be featured please feel free to contact me! At this time I will feature artists freely and just appreciate the content. Perhaps a little reciprocal advertising of sorts would help? Anyway, I would love to hear from you!
I decided to do the interviews in a brief 20 Questions style... I think as artists and lovers of art we can get really wrapped up in the language we use to talk about our art...we can get wordy (I am sooo guilty of this.) So I ask the artists who respond to the 20 questions to be brief. I love hearing what they have to say when that have to get down to the "bare bones" of what they do.
Enjoy!
Rachel is an artist and art teacher living in Wisconsin. She is actually a very dear friend and I am excited and honored for her to be the first featured artist on Run Mad Blog!!
Artist 20 questions-
It is who I am.
Chuck Close or Toulouse-Lautrec
None really, all have some influence good or bad...
Yes but I have a problem when asked to define what an artist is.
Soft pastels, the colors blend together really nicely. I like the ability to combined clear definition with softness.(If that makes sense.)
Oil based ink because I work really messy and it is a ginormous pain to clean up!
Yes. My dad has an art degree, my mom pursued one for awhile and both my sisters have good artistic abilities.
When I was about four, I won a drawing contest or something goofy like that.
If you choose to work your butt off to achieve that, I do it for personal gratification but feel weird asking for money for my art.
YES A MILLION TIMES YES.
I am currently drawing larger than life size portraits with companion pieces. The companion piece is a part of the body that the featured person in the portrait chose as their favorite. I have been trying to create work that is more personal and meaningful about the females in my family.
Right now it is a drawing I did of the side of my sister's neck.
Probably something I did in high school that had to do with 9/11. I was trying to get a piece of artwork in an art show and I thought going with something topical and emotional would be a shoe-in.
Demonstrate the female perspective of my female relatives about themselves and their bodies.
Absolutely. Art helps complete the human being.
Morning or evening. Pretty much anytime but afternoon when I am sleepy and want an after lunch nap.
I just start working, I also have to play music or movies I enjoy. The noise around me helps me get to a good place and it is easier to start creating work and get into the flow.
I am very connected to my current work, it is more personal and I am actually feeling good about what I am creating. I have very little connection to my older work especially the stuff that were pretty much just assignments I was completing.
There was a political piece I did in my college sculpture class where I envisioned an elaborate way to display it that would have been huge and a lot of construction that I never got around to creating.
Paper and pencils...I do love the basics.
