Hello! I’m so happy to be back from my little winter break hiatus. Over the years, I’ve found that I am an extremely restless individual–something that has impacted me in both negative and positive ways. I find myself needing to constantly be occupied by something; that something often being art. This past month, I’ve been obsessing over this semester’s upcoming senior show. It feels like freshman year was just yesterday, and now I’m set to graduate in just a few months. With this persistently on my mind, I’ve decided to really dedicate myself and work as hard as I can manage to make my portion of the exhibit unforgettable.

A big part of my brainstorming process simply comes from doing. Something I’d like to focus on in my exhibit is color, and how it can invoke interest and emotion simply by placing one against another. The most beautiful aspect of watercolor (to me, at least) comes through when using the wet-in-wet technique. Even the most unlikely color combinations come to life, as this technique freezes the motion of water in time. In my piece ‘Heron’, I experiment with geometrical wet-in-wet fields accompanied by the image of a heron. This piece is a bit larger than what I typically choose to work with. Rather than my typical 5″ x 7″, this piece comes closer to (about) 11″ x 17″.

~Carleigh