but altered by a gentlemen named Lester Angel.The project was done in 8th grade; the media used in the drawing was very simple. We used a sheet of high glossed photo paper and ballpoint Sharpie markers. I was a cheerleader and dancer in elementary school; with these activities came my passion for music and dance. I also was an interpretive dancer for a youth center. This caricature represents my outgoing and spontaneous character. During my childhood I was very active and was known to be a very busy body. The drawing also conveys this talent that i do not acknowledge. I now dance to cater to my health; it's the most exercise I do. Being a college student the measures taken can have a dreadful impact on your studies. While drawing I thought about what else would people see besides the dancer and the dance moves. I chose to convey my facial features because they are very distinct. My overall appearance has changed but my facial features remained the same while growing into a young lady. when the drawing was completed I was amazed at what I had done. Every feature from my nose to my chin to my ponytail, who couldn't tell this drawing of me, Antischa Smith....
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
"Me" The Olive-Harvey Artist
This is a caricature created by myself 
but altered by a gentlemen named Lester Angel.The project was done in 8th grade; the media used in the drawing was very simple. We used a sheet of high glossed photo paper and ballpoint Sharpie markers. I was a cheerleader and dancer in elementary school; with these activities came my passion for music and dance. I also was an interpretive dancer for a youth center. This caricature represents my outgoing and spontaneous character. During my childhood I was very active and was known to be a very busy body. The drawing also conveys this talent that i do not acknowledge. I now dance to cater to my health; it's the most exercise I do. Being a college student the measures taken can have a dreadful impact on your studies. While drawing I thought about what else would people see besides the dancer and the dance moves. I chose to convey my facial features because they are very distinct. My overall appearance has changed but my facial features remained the same while growing into a young lady. when the drawing was completed I was amazed at what I had done. Every feature from my nose to my chin to my ponytail, who couldn't tell this drawing of me, Antischa Smith....
but altered by a gentlemen named Lester Angel.The project was done in 8th grade; the media used in the drawing was very simple. We used a sheet of high glossed photo paper and ballpoint Sharpie markers. I was a cheerleader and dancer in elementary school; with these activities came my passion for music and dance. I also was an interpretive dancer for a youth center. This caricature represents my outgoing and spontaneous character. During my childhood I was very active and was known to be a very busy body. The drawing also conveys this talent that i do not acknowledge. I now dance to cater to my health; it's the most exercise I do. Being a college student the measures taken can have a dreadful impact on your studies. While drawing I thought about what else would people see besides the dancer and the dance moves. I chose to convey my facial features because they are very distinct. My overall appearance has changed but my facial features remained the same while growing into a young lady. when the drawing was completed I was amazed at what I had done. Every feature from my nose to my chin to my ponytail, who couldn't tell this drawing of me, Antischa Smith....
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This is so precious, Ms. Smith. So, this is a collaborative piece between you and the artist--something you commissioned.
ReplyDeleteIt makes me think of the story a friend of mine once told me about her father. He is a landscape painter of some reknown, but when he sells his work people ask him the strangest things, like: can you make the sky a different color so it matches my couch? Now, that sounds a little crazy, and it always makes me smile, but it speaks to what you have demonstrated about collaborative or commissioned art. Its importance is both artistic and personal. As much as it adds to the career of an artist to sell a commissioned piece, that work is, also, the representation of the artist inside the commissioner.
Thank you, Commissioner Smith.