Leonardo Da Vinci said, “Art is not finished, only abandoned”. This statement is especially true for any piece of mine. Anyone who has seen my process of creating a piece knows that I am very precise with my art. I like detail and I like making my lines and shades blend. I use a lot of white when I paint, and a lot of my bolder colors stand out in comparison. There is either a lot of texture in my work or very little. When it comes to art, I am very obsessive; I like to have everything in its own place, and I do not stop working on a single part of a piece until I am satisfied with it. Even then, I still find myself thinking of different ways for me to go back and fix things. Eventually, you have to abandon a piece and move on, however.

For my concentration, I focused on using line and movement to depict water. My art style is very smooth and neat, and a lot of my own work has the quality of water even when I don’t intend on it to be. I focused on the movement of various bodies of water, as well as the things around water. I wanted to show the detail in something simple, as well as the broad view of water; I did so by using my habit of obsessively adding in any detail to a single piece to show what people generally overlook. Part of the way that I went about showing the various aspects of my art was by layering. From farther away, it’s harder to pick out each layer of paint or other media I used, but up close it’s easy to see the detail and layers. I really enjoy the simplicity of a body of water, and the amount of detail in that simplicity; and for that reason, I chose for my concentration to focus on just that.