https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTXoFlya6XI&list=PL84pGEk0cvDmBm9yQQ-P0TPsuONbSRi1X&index=10
I watched an interview from 2019 with Robert Caldwell. (I was going to try and find a new one from this year but I didn't see any on the YouTube playlist so I chose an older one.) I don't know exactly who interviewed him, but I enjoyed the editing of the video. The video itself was recorded very professionally so it was overall nice to watch. I've never really been particularly interesting in wildlife art personally. It's nice to look at, but it's not really my style. However I appreciate the skill that goes into it and Caldwell's art was very technically impressive. The interview was interesting. I found the part about how he had been interested in art at a young age just to switch to music, but then one person make him go back to art. That teacher changed his entire future, which was really interesting not even looking from an art sense, just for how something small like that changes a person's future. It was interesting to hear how involved he was with the business side of art and how important it seemed to be. Even if I've never really thought about making profit off of art, it was still interesting to hear about. I think the comment about how economic downturns affect the arts is really important now considering the current state of the world. Even if he had no idea about what would happen at the time of recording this video, it's still interesting to think about in how the arts have been affected by the pandemic.
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Even though this project has a much shorter period of time to work on, one of my goals is to try and make a larger piece. I really enjoyed painting for my last project, so I've brought that back and decided to continue making relief sculpture type works for the time being. I spent a lot of time over the past week painting. I made three paintings but I plan on only using two of them for the actual project, the first one was kind of a test. I'm planning on using these two and orientating them in different ways. This was mostly just for practice, I wanted to try painting with a palette knife so this was my first attempt.
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