Vol.2 Issue 1 Oakbridge Academy of Art

The Evolution and Creative process of Art

Ashley DouttPhotography

“Enlightened”

Could, Would, and DoesBy Anna Black

Art evolves;If it did notThen neither could the Apes.Ideas become big and small,And sometimes not at all.

Art evolves;If it could notThen neither could viral germs.Ideas have some sort of plan.Sometimes willingly And sometimes spamed...

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Sector: 2-3 Star Trails and Lone Tree Sector: 4-5 Fumino Hora and HappeningsSector: 6-7 The Untitled

Sector: 8-11 Fun Experimental Pages

Sector: 12-13 Black Bubbles and The BeanSector: 14-15 Aliens Take over OAA Steeler PartySector: 16-17 Alex Beitel and Alien AdventureSector: 18-19 UNTITLED and Earth DaySector: 20-21 Earth Day and MetamorphosisSector: 22-23 Last Dance of Beauty and Alien LanguageSector: 24-25 Faulk Interpretation and Bekah AlvianiSector: 26-27 Automatic DrawingSector: 28-29 Jeremiah Faulk and Jeremiah Faulk

Sector: 30-31 Another Automatic Drawing, Why not!

Sector: 32-33 Answer Key and The Creators

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Jeremy GrossPhotography“Star Trails”

Jordan McCaslin: Visual Design“Lone Tree”

My process goes like this:First, when I’m thinking up a piece or comic, I start with the basic concept like story. Second, I begin drawing it out, and nine out of ten, my drawing looks nothing like what I pictured. So in that aspect, my work evolves. Last, I add color and make the piece complete, and that’s my process. 3

Interview with Fumino Hora, An Installation Artist that recently visited Pittsburgh with her Exhibit “Samsara”:

How do you think your artwork has evolved? It began from my interest in Zen aesthetics and has evolved through personal and

cultural context based on my background and my own experiences.Would you say that most of your art is based on spiritual or scientific inspiration?

My art is based on my own inspiration, and the inspiration can be spiritual, but not scientific.

Do you believe in other life forms whether they are spiritual or extraterrestrial?In my imagination, there is spiritual existence. But I cannot say if it is a life form or not. I have no idea about extraterrestrial. But I think it is also possible, only in my

imagination.Do you think the soul of your art evolves with the use of different mediums?

I have always been experimental and I like challenging new things.What message do you try to convey in your art?

In this project ‘The Way of Samsara’, I wish to convey the message: to cherish your life and embrace yourself. The time we have in life is very limited, but because so,

we should treasure every day, and every moment. By accepting and forgiving all imperfections, humans can attain the ultimate peaceful state of mind.

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Shauna MillerPhotography

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Jeremiah FaulkVisual Design“Untitled”6

Could, would, and Does continued...Art evolves;If it would notThen art would be stupid.Ideas thrive on the very essence of evolution...

Adam MyersPhotography“Untitled”

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Sometimes greedilyAnd sometimes for a solution...

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Make way through maze, avoiding aliens.

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Answer key: page 30

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Grant Wood’s American Gothic Dot-to-DotSI

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Use your own Imagination and see what Grant Wood’s American Gothic would look like through your eyes. There are

no Rules. Connect the dots however you want!

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Could, Would, and Does (Contd.)

Art evolves;And it doesBecause the world revolvesWith evolution and with ideas...

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Anna BlackVisual Design

“Black Bubbles”12

My process depends on what I am thinking about at the time. Sometimes it is extremely fast at developing an idea and most times it is slow to develop an idea. I like to plan my pieces most of the time, however there are some extraordinary pieces I have done that have just come out of the blue. So to make a long story short (too late), all my works go under a different evolutionary process because not one work is alike.

Lydia FerberPhotography“The Bean” 13

When I am creating my work, I think most about the overall outcome at first; what I want to get across to others. I always want something that looks awesome and grabs the viewers’ attention really quick, but that isn’t always the case. All my work comes from one little idea. I know what I initially want at the end, but getting there is my favorite part.

Modern day Crop Circles being performed with Steeler Propaganda to tell the Aliens, “YOU BETTER BE A STEELER FAN”.

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VICTORY OVER THE ALIENS BELONGS TO TY CYPHER: ALIEN SLAYER WITH

PAPER FOOTBALLS

A local man(Mark Lowe) brain washed

by Aliens during steeler party at

Oaa!Unidentified flying object

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What would you say has evolved the most with your own creative process?Probably my creativity because artists thrive off other art is its to bounce ideas off each other.

Some art tends to alienate people, why?I think being creative in a lot of places its not the same as being intelligent. Some times they don’t feel as wanted as everyone else, like in high school. High school was about grades not art. I think their scared to be themselves with their creativity because people don’t see it the way they do.

Alex Beitel: Photography

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George Zelznak: Photography“Alien Adventure”

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Aaron McGregor’s Evolution Process:All art begins before the concept. Why did the artist do that? What does it mean? Sometimes the answers to these questions are not important, but the exciting parts are the questions themselves. The human mind generates ideas that are provoked by invisible, intangible forces or urges that dwell in a primitive desire to create. If there is a “logical” evolutionary lineage to a finished work of art, I think it would be: 1. Innate primitive desire 2.conception of ideas 3. Urge to use hands as tools 4. The execution of concept through use of a medium. 5. The finished work 6. The audience to analyze the artwork and generate questions…Do you see?

Jeremy GrossPhotography“UNTITLED!”

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Could, would, and does (contd.)

No EVOLUTION

No ideas...

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Shane CravenerPhotography“Metamorphosis”

NO IDEAS!

NO ART...

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Caitlin’s Work Evolution ProcessMy creative process is like preparing for a marathon. It starts slow. Taking in everything

around me, all the details and textures of the earth as I walk. Then as the ideas build its like the my legs are moving faster, able to see everything as I jog by. Then finally as I’m

running past all the trees, people, and squirrels, everything comes together. My final result is like crossing that finish line, ripping the ribbon with the final image.22

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Caitlin Uhrin: Photography“Last dance of beauty”

Jeremiah Faulk(Artist Interpretation of the Evolution of Art)In my opinion human beings have an incredible ability, to express their own thoughts and feelings into tangible evidence of our existence as conscience beings. From the point of scratching shapes into rock to portray a message or a belief to painting a masterpiece to clear ones thoughts, not much has changed though. Cave painting, stone carving, putting pieces of things together to make new form, only imagined at one point. The creative process is one of unmeasurable magnitude, it starts with nothing more than a thought or feeling and to a creative individual, (Whose brain operates in a way that causes one side of the brain to operate into different way than normal, usually an opposition factor) Life is an impactful thing, although, I believe everyone of us has the ability to create and, if we aren’t creating on some level; be it visual, writing, tactile, taste, smell, sound) our sensory perception of the world is filtered through us and mixed with our experiences; we aren’t really doing anything. When the creative process makes it past the stage of ideas it starts to take form, and in this following stage the brain is firing in every direction, making new connections severing old ones. A human being can answer a million questions never asked by creating something from their own ideas. This is when we have a moment to review psychological and spiritual growth in ourselves. The evolution of Art is and always has been its own entity fluxuating through time because of our constant state of learning about the world, and ourselves.

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Do you believe in Intelligent life?

No

What would Alien Art look like?

It would look like a painting if it was on an acid trip

For people who are not an artist, Why would they

be alienated? The artist has to be able to

handle what they do mentally because some things that

they do are stressful. People who are not artists who try to understand get alienated in it,

they just can’t handle it.

Bekah Alviani: Photography

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Automatic Drawing: Automatism has taken on many forms: the automatic writing and drawing initially (and still to this day) practiced by surrealists can be compared to similar, or perhaps parallel phenomena, such as the non-idiomatic improvisation of free jazz.

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Go to youtube.com and type Automatic (kite drawing) and its the first video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvUvQRPOB_w&feature=related

Participants:1. Jeremy Gross2. Ty Cypher

3. Brandon Bendis4. Judy McCormick

5 .Brady Lanzendorfer6. Nikki Deemer7.Clifford McGuire

Still interested in

Automatic Drawing? Check out these links!

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Jeremiah Faulk: Visual Design28

You’re a sophisticated person, right?mhmDo you believe in intelligent life?(Head nod yes) mhmmWhat do you think aliens would look like?Probably hard to describe, given our ability to see.Do you believe they even have a form?Unless they were some disembodied conscience, they would have a form. But I think that they would, considering evolution changes form to better the creature of the environment, a higher intelligence wouldn’t have a need for a form. So they might be barely there, in terms of physicality. Like I said they might be difficult for us to see because of wavelengths that our eyes can pick up. Different planets have different materials like ours is based on nickel and iron the elements we have here aren’t the ....

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Jeremaih Faulk interview continued:Elements they have everywhere else. We get asteroids and stuff like that come down and bring ne elements with it. We have tiny amounts of precious metals that are in certain areas those are from materials comings down with that and that’s the only little bit we have. It says that different elements are being made from different star formations and stuff out in the universe so um the environment would change based on those so different creatures become found.Very Nice!Your own creative process, do you believe it has evolved since you started?Uh huh, its constantly evolving things, learning, experimenting, finding what works finding what doesn’t, just playing with it.How would you say that an alien would adapt to its surroundings?Um, you can look at the eyes, every creature has eyes the way they work is all based on a similar aspect of light. So it wouldn’t be so far fetched to say that something from another planet has eyes that are similar to something here. Wouldn’t be much more.

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Automatic Drawing #2Participants:1. Lydia Ferber2. Jordan McCaslin3. Caitlin Uhrin4. Anna Black5. Jeremiah Faulk

Interested in other evolving forms of art?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo

Go to youtube.com and type in Claymation chess. It’s the first video!

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Make way through maze, avoiding aliens.Answer Key:1. Monkey2. Squirrel3. Human4. Elephant5. Horse6. Kangaroo7. Dolphin8. Guinea Pig9. Bat10. Chihuahua

Cover Design by Jeremiah FaulkLayout Design by Anna BlackTitle Idea by Jeremy GrossAlien drawing in The Earth day RSVP by Dani GrewEarth day RSVP by Caitlin UhrinPage 33 Alien drawing by Anna Black

Last part of Could, Would, and Does

No ART!...Well you’re smart,You get the idea.

Aaron McGregor

Lydia Ferber

Caitlyn Urin

Jeremiah Faulk

Jordan McCaslin

Anna Black

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