Embroidered Collage

I reached the end of this book's journey and found it helpful.  I'd glady recommend Finding Your Visual Voice to anyone who works in 2-D media and wants to examine what matters most to them in defining a style.  It would be of most use to pure painters, but worthwhile to artists who work in other media.   I did very few of the exercises, but thought deeply about the questions.  I don't know if I found my VOICE, exactly.  But I did find a new sense of focus that will help carry me forward into my next set of work.

My focus is on pattern and texture inspired by outside sources, either in the world around me or in the materials before me, and developed in an irregular and abstracted fashion.  My subject matter is generally irrelevant, especially due to the degree of abstraction that I prefer, but I enjoy landscapes, among other things.  So that is an area in which I could cater to particular audiences and still create my own art.  While some other things going on in my life are leading me to consider changing my working process, I am structuring those potential changes around these ideas.

To read all my entries on Finding Your Visual Voice by Dakota Mitchell and Lee Haroun:

• Initial Book Review
• Part 1: Inspiration
• Part 2: Subject Matter
• Part 3: Elements
• Part 4: Composition
• Part 5: Process