"Forward and forward we walk--the end is beyond the horizon--yet we always continue never yielding."
I feel like that is the best representation of everything that has accumulated from my past art journal entries. No matter where I started on my journey, I've kept moving forward through my personal education, my expanded education, and the pursuit to educate others. To sum it all up in a hashtag, it would be #Progress. One of the biggest things I've come to realize is that while art can be a result of something people want, it represents a personal view first and foremost. I should focus on having confidence in my own work, even if it doesn't look the best, and pass that belief on to students so that it's something more than a grade in class. One thing that I am thinking about is less of how the past twelve (thirteen) entries will be present in the final artwork, but more how the final will embody the thoughts and processes throughout my education. While each image holds a meaning to a specific thought or group of thoughts, including them as a large collage or something would only encompass what I discussed. I want my work to incorporate the four stages of my education and how things changed from one to the next and what would have been the representation for those years. While there has been no development yet for color or materials, I want to make sure I have a proper composition for the way I want my layout to be when it comes time to move forward. That being said, I was playing around with the idea of having my previous "selves" trailing behind the present me as if they were echoes. Then in the background incorporating different ideas I've had throughout the years (story ideas, character personas, words, etc.) and then fading into a watercolor splash that transitions into a white surface representing the change to come. The second one below is more of a static segmented version where there are defining ideas in each stage of my education that were the most prominent. In doing so, this idea would have more of a blocky set-up than the one without borders. As for the ideas of materials, the first one would likely incorporate the linework being done solely as a digital medium before transferring it over to a heavy type of paper. From there I'd focus on combining watercolor, colored pencil, and possibly alcohol markers to bring it to life with color. The paper would likely be a BFK Rives, which I used for printmaking a couple years back. It's heavy and archive ready feeling almost like a parchment. For a background color, it would be interesting to stain it with tea to give it an aged look, but that is more for an aesthetic feel than importance to the meaning. The piece below would follow a similar fashion of materials but each stage would be represented with a different medium. Paper would remain the same and lines would be created digitally, but the elementary stage would be done with pastel or crayons, middle school would be done with colored pencils, high school with alcohol markers, and then the college level would be watercolor. Each one representing an interest through the education process and close to what would have been the main focus on art projects for me back then.
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Joel SchreinerBorn on December 17th, 1996, Joel Schreiner entered the Electronic Art program at CSU right out of High School. From there he decided to set his eyes on becoming an educator alongside an illustrator and concept artist. Archives
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