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I saw on the rubric that I had points deducted in the amount of pictures that I posted for the Spring Portfolio. To get full points I needed to submit a minimum of 5 pictures, which I did. I am not sure why I was given a grade that reflects that I submitted two. If I was required to submit more than 5, I certainly would’ve done so, but I chose my 5 favorites. Originally I wasn’t concerned about the .75 of a point but once I looked at the rubric I was a bit confused.

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For this visualization I went through my sketchbook and wrote down the places I visited most and made another section to group the rest. The four groups ended up being Lagrange, where I live, Peekskill, where I work, Outside and Other. I gathered the most data. I noticed that as my research went on, I gathered more data and it was deeper than just the things I saw. I noticed what I was feeling in the space, how the colors inspired me, how the people distracted me, how being alone changed my mindset and a lot of other things. Since I spent a lot of time at home and at work I had the most data. It was important for me to visit these places more than once because I was able to compare and contrast my feelings, people and how my day affected me in those spaces. I like this set up because it is a lot easier to understand and mimics my sketchbook.

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Could you provide us with a timeline for the summer? My summer plan was to create five paintings based on my digital sketches but with the show going up July 31st, I’m not sure if I can create the amount of paintings I wanted to in only two weeks. Also, what would the remainder of the summer studio session look like?

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As my research winds down, I find myself reflecting on the changing of the seasons and how it has affected my art-making process. Going outside to paint was truly where I found most of my peaceful moments. Early hours when no one was around was a lot more meaningful and I found that I was truly content. When people were around, I got a bit more anxiety about painting in public and wondered if it was weird, would I get in trouble, would people ask me questions. I connected these feelings back to my public art piece last summer where I painted in the streets. I felt very nervous to place myself in those situations and wondered if it was even a legal thing to do. What if the parking spaces got filled up and someone got mad that I was taking up a spot? I realize people in general just put me on edge and I enjoy myself most when it’s just me. In relation to the colors I picked up on, I noticed that in the colder months I chose white and blue a lot more often than warmer colors, but when I was inside I almost always noticed the yellows in the space first. I revisited a bunch of places more than once and realized that the mood I was in had a lot to do with how I interpreted the space. It was cool to see the colors that I chose by keeping the palette right on the page. I really enjoyed doing this research and I’m excited to continue it over the summer.

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For this visualization, I set it up like my sketchbook. Of course, I had this idea now! Perhaps I’ll go back into my old visualizations and redo them to be set up similarly. In my sketchbooks, I have four swatches of paint based on the colors I’m feeling. What I did for this visualization was look at the sketchbook experiences as a whole and choose four of the most prominent places I visited multiple times and choose a color the best represented those times. Home, outside, work and other. Other was a combination of some places I visited only once. I looked at the words that I had written down and compiled them around the color. I color coded them just like my last two visualizations. I started to notice that warmed colors make me feel more comfortable. In this visualization, I only focused on words and feelings associated with the places. In the next visualization, I think I may take a more specific approach and group the words based on their meaning. Place really does affect how you feel in a space. It affects me based on how many people are around, how I’m feeling, how the space is set up and if I have been in that space before. Each time I went back to a place I felt something new based on varying factors. Even though I spent generally the same amount of time in each space, I didn’t have the same outcome each time. It became more like a reflection time and encouraged me to look around and just notice. Notice how I was reacting in the space and how the space was reacting to me, especially in public places.

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Pierre Bonnard was a painter within the Les Nabis group. He created flat colored areas rather than creating the illusion of a three-dimensional space. Although he was part of this group that was interested in obscure symbolism, he favored and was fascinated with the delights of his every day life. His approach to painting is very similar to mine, where we are both creating simple moment of our every day live in a beautiful way. These intimate moment invite the viewer into our worlds and ask them to draw their own meanings or interpretations of what could be happening.

We also are fascinated with color and its importance in a painting. Bonnard would become so attached to a color that he would go back into paintings that he completed years before and add the new color that he recently mixed.

Our paintings are also related through memory. Bonnard paints from memory, while I paint memories. When creating my paintings, I usually have the image in my mind and use reference images to help me visualize the poses, shadows and lighting.

I would like to recreate my digital paintings on canvas this summer and those will be my final image for the show.