DIGITAL ART TRADITIONAL ART PHOTOGRAPHY
Jump down to my creative work galleries and project timelines displaying my personal art history
and progression through different digital and traditional art mediums.
Throughout my life, I have been interested in hands-on work and learning. Consequently, in middle school, high school, and even some college courses, I took an interest in Engineering. This route most likely spans from seeing my father work in construction. A part of me still wants to build and create something functional, but in my first year at Bridgewater College, I suddenly changed my path and decided to pull my interest toward one of my hobbies that seemingly always made me happy, which was Art.
Starting with doodles on my worksheets and then later developing monstrous figures in photo-editing programs, I became fascinated with many different art forms, although I was far from being a master at any. To further my capabilities, I decided to declare my major as Digital Media Art, although I do enjoy traditional mediums such as drawing and painting, as well as a bit of photography.
The main goal of my portfolio right now is to show my progress since the beginning of my path as an artist. Throughout my history of different mediums, there is a clear improvement and discovery of what I enjoy stylistically. A large portion of my art is in black and white and contains elements of surrealism. I used to
tell myself that I was just focusing on light and shadow, but I think the truth is that the monochromatic color partially stems from my being mildly red-green colorblind and having a sort of fear of color inaccuracy.
As far as the surrealism goes, I just think it’s interesting for the viewer to question what they are looking at, without the composition being fully abstract.
After furthering my artistic capabilities, I decided to start merging some of the different mediums
in my gallery to create more compelling imagery. Through the usage of typography in some compositions,
and in others a mixture of drawing, photography and editing, I have started to grow interest in what
I call a “digital collage”. And, once I graduate, I’d like to use these mixed skills to create intriguing,
but functional compositions.
