Talent SHOWCASE SHANA SMITH/ SPOKANE, WASHINGTON
I am a Montana born artist who has spent the better part of my life in an art studio covered in paint. My early pieces involved the human form. As I have progressed I’ve become more obsessed with the manipulation of the paint and how different colors relate to each other. I aim to learn something new with each piece by often changing the techniques I use, or by utilizing the same techniques in a variety of different ways. Sometimes I paint with a focus on realism while other times I am compelled to leave out important details and allow a more suggestive image to form. I am very much mood driven through the creation process and so each piece becomes a combination of that mood, my emotional attachment to the subject matter, and technique. My technical choices tend to be related to my mood in that the different processes of application satisfy different internal needs to create. Recently I’ve been experimenting in abstraction as I become more and more interested in the relationships of color and how the oil paint blends with different mediums. My subjects and execution styles are ever changing as am I, as an artist.
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I secretly love math with the same vigor I love art
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How long have you been creating your art after you sell it? I hope it art? Since I could hold a crayon. encourages emotion in any future viewers
and that it is appreciated. I do however
What is your greatest fear when understand that by definition in selling showing your art to others? That no the piece I relinquish any further control one will see the moments I’m most proud of in each piece. Or that people will show up with expectations of what they perceive art to be and in turn criticize what doesn’t follow their preconceived notions so that they never give the piece a chance.
Does it matter what happens to
involving its existence. So, I guess I just hope for the best.
Are you good at math? Yes actually.
I secretly love math with the same vigor I love art. If I weren’t an artist, I may easily have become a mathematician.
