intro: hello! ^__^
my name is fatima, i've lived in jersey my whole life (i wish to move away someday) and i am salvadoran. i am a self-taught artist, started drawing during my last years in middle school and continued on ever since. i love making traditional and digital art, as well as painting; oils, acrylic and watercolor is my least favorite medium, but i'm good at it, oddly enough. currently, i’m studying to gain my bfa, and thinking about of become an art teacher for young kids. i make personal and caricature/cartoon-ish art (sometimes, fanart of my interest) i love drawing caricatures and fanart but also want to learn about realism, but i have no patience to deal with drawing one realistic eye for 3 hours. anyways, my art influences a part of myself that i am still learning about, because the more i learn about what it takes into becoming an artist, the more knowledge and experience i have in creating artwork of my own.
an artist that influences me is camila salinas, she is a young, college student who i found out about, during the covid pandemic. she makes massive acrylic/oil paintings and well as thumbnail sketches. her artwork is phenomenal, she makes large scale paintings/drawings that even surprise me and every other artist that follows her social media. her large-scale paintings made me want to give painting another chance. all in all, she’s grown so much, as an artist.
2 quotes from susan sontag:
“ For one thing, there are a great many more images around, claiming our attention.”
every time i scroll on tiktok, twitter, instagram, etc i see incredible pieces, from young adults to people entering their 40s or 50s. the paintings and drawings catch my eye, that i get a flicker of inspiration to create something, anything.
“ Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.”
this quote takes me back to when i painted my still-lives, before i transferred to njcu. while i’m not moving objects around, the details on the objects captures, every, single, detail. from the lighting of the objects, to the way they’re positioned. it’s supposed to be modern, the experience from having eye detail after detail, it’s frustrating, but knowledgeable.
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