Sky Hopinka uses his medium of choice, video, as a deep personal and experimental medium to explore language, identity, landscape, and Indigenous history. he was first inspired when learning the language Chinuk Wawa, while living in Portland, Oregon. While studying this language, it made him think about structure and communication, becoming the building stones for his filmmaking.
I use oil paint for my main illustrations on canvas recently. I usually brainstorm ideas, however, the ideas that I use the most are the ones that come to me when I am listening to music or just taking in my surroundings, like in the park or on the bus. I've always been fascinated with how oil painters have this thick texture and vivid colors with their paintings, but I wasn't sure how to achieve that and I wasn't even sure that it was my "style". I went to an art museum in New York and our professor had us choose an oil painting that we wanted to do a case study of and follow the techniques to copy it. I ended up getting inspired by one that had the same characteristics that I was very awed by from the oil painters I followed and it ended up pushing me to achieve what I want with my paintings.
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