Brittney Logan | Assignment # 2 |

The artist I interviewed at the art-walk in was Jane ; Jane’s work is based around her family. She began working with people because she enjoyed their forms and figures and the facial expressions they could show. Jane decided to really become in-depth with working with the figures of people and their facial expression when her daughter was throwing a tantrum one day and she captured it. Jane said once she seen how angry her daughter was and the expression she caught on camera she knew she wanted to continue working with people.

Since she sees people everyday she figured it would be a great theme to continue with. Jane doesn’t have substantial background in art, and she is currently taking courses now to better her skills, she just always had natural talent in painting and started from there and has been painting for numerous years. In her free time she enjoys painting her kids and family members. Jane enjoys working with watercolors and oils and pastels. Jane said although she has explored different types of media she wants to continue with oils and charcoal, she says theirs just a different feel and style she can get from using these materials.

I really enjoyed her artwork, like I talked about earlier she’s very good in catching expressions of people, the picture above is her daughter, I really enjoyed how she only added color and value to the skin areas, not only is she separating the material things from the body itself, she is showing the full anger that her daughter is experiencing at that exact moment, when you look at this picture you can see the anger and you feel her screaming at you, when I seen it I was drawn to it automatically, I can just connect to this picture, sometimes when your just angry you just need to yell and get it out of your system and that’s what attracted me to Janes work in the first place.

"Ralph Hinkle's piece of the form of a women's body."