Artist statement

Artist Statement

I love art. What can I say? It's the best thing that has ever happened to me. The visual arts class of 2010 made a lot of improvements over the past four years including me. My pieces are all about a moment in my life that made me see who I am as a person and artist . I especially want to point out one of my collections that I dedicated to my grandmother, a beautiful and amazing person that I will never forget.

Through my experience, I have learned that art is my communication tool. I learned and gained a lot of confidence in the fourth year of my high school experience. I also gained a lot of artistic knowledge and skill and I was able to apply many of the artistic values that are the foundation of this art school, Boston Arts Academy.

I was able to quickly pick my idea about what I wanted my independent project to be about. I was taking images from different points of view and changing the lighting so I could change the way the image looks. These themes come from people I love and from a moment and experience in my life that have haunted me or made me happy and proud to be who I am.

I created my pictures by using composition, perspective and texture, value, contrast, and other elements to my advantage. My inspiration was my niece, my grandmother as well as my family and myself; I have experienced the worst out of my life and through these experiences I present to you my life, inspiration and passion. I hope to achieve happiness and strength through the artwork that I share with my community. What I love to do is photography--it is my life, and who I am.

Process Work

This is my process work from freshman year, When i first took these images I was very emotional and very happy with the work I took time on. This show a huge improvement that I have achieved over the year til my final year. This is the work that will represent me in exhibition. This show my strengths in photography and my admirartion for my work.

Still life in process.

In this piece I'm using color pastel pencils. i working on accuracy and realistic form, because as an artist i struggle with that.

Reflection on Critic (10/27/09)

The Critic we had as a group, was very help for me. It was able to put my work up and look at my work. Some thing I should work on is finishing all my pieces, and as well using contrast to show my values. this critic helped me a lot overall, because i can remember mostly what everyone said, and i have a good idea of what my peers want me to work on.

Eating Healthy - Self-Portrait

In this project, we had a free choose of creating our own pieces and choosing our materials but, it had to be food related. I decided to make a self-portrait piece based on eating healthy and what it does to you?. Materials i decided to use was color pencils and different kinds of pencil, For example; 2B, H, B etc. the size of my paper is 18 x 18", I'm working big.

Metel Drawing.

The Composition of my drawing is very successful because, The way the object had is placed. But My biggest challenge is to create metallic -like pieces, this in the picture of my drawing it is not shown.

Studio Art " walnut project"

working on my Walnut Series. These drawing my process while i was working. Hope you like, ENJOY