The Seven Questions

1. What is the first creative moment you remember?

The first creative moment I remember was back in 4^th grade doing a unit on Georgia O’Keeffe and seeing her fascination with flowers. When my art teacher Mr.G was showing us the pictures of her flowers I decided I was going to paint a bunch of flowers using different textures and paints when I left that day and I did.

2. Was anyone there to witness or appreciate it?

No only me myself and I.

3. What is the best idea you’ve ever had?

The best idea I’ve ever had is producing my video on abuse last year for STAC Night.

4. What made it great in your mind?

What made it great to me is being behind the camera and seeing my vision come to life on a subject that fascinates me. Also the idea and video being so sophisticated and out of my comfort zone made it a great idea.

5. What is the dumbest idea?

The dumbest idea I had was using watercolors on an expensive sketchbook of acrylic canvases. To add to that I didn’t even decide what I was going to paint I just thought it would come to me like it did to people in the movies.

6. What made it stupid?

That the canvas was not made for watercolor so the textures of the paper made everything look bad and muddy. The part about just winging it turned into 12 pages of scribbles and blotches of paint, and then I didn’t have the patience to let it dry and proceeded to get the pages stuck together and ruin the already terrible scribbles with pieces of torn off canvas from the page above it.

7. Can you connect the dots that led you to this idea?

Being lazy is key for all of the reasons that led me to this stupid and dumb idea. One, I did not want to do any research or work off a picture of something because I was lazy and did not feel like doing any work. This idea was just my way of trying to improve my work with new paper but I didn’t do anything to prepare beforehand. I just figured that because my parents complimented my work that it was good, and because the flowers I had previously done beforehand on oaktag were freehand and that the same idea would come to me with this even though I was not painting flowers.