I’ve recently been super nostalgic about my art school journey. After I graduated in 2018, I wanted to leave it all behind and honestly felt no real connection to my experience at school.
There was a looming feeling of indifference around everything I created in those 4 years. I felt unresolved in my artistic style and questioned if all that experience and time even remotely pointed me in the direction I should go.
With my return to plein air, watercolor, and oil painting I’ve been digging up my technical skills that went to the wayside during my aura painting journey. I found myself looking at my old work and having such a laugh at some of the stuff I churned out lol
Creativity based on a prompt was and never will be my forté. It makes sense that so much of my early college artwork felt so disconnected from me and like it was made in a fever dream.
I never was hard on myself about grades or quality of work in school. TBH I was pretty lazy and looked for anyway to cut corners where I could lmao — I think thats why it’s easy for me to look back at these cringe projects and poke fun.
This Tiktok I made to Taylor Swift's 'Cardigan' Sums Up the Shit Show Pretty Well
I think having a laugh at yourself is a really magnetic energy when it’s not coming from a place of self-deprecation!! I find for me it opens me up to new outlooks and gives the universe a chance to swoop in with fun opportunities for expansion!
If you wanna hear the full story on these pieces and some more, check out the newest episode of Versions! Part 2 will be out on Sunday covering my biggest SLAYS of art school, because I sure need to cool down after the roast that this episode was.