So, for the past couple of blogs, I have been writing about artists from Deviantart.com. This week, I’d like to focus on some of my friend, Yukie’s work which is really neat. In high school, I decided to take Introduction to Ceramics for my art elective. While I struggled to make even a vague form of a penguin piece for a pottery assignment, Yukie was able to randomly karate chop a piece of clay and turn it into a beautifully sculpted masterpiece. I’m not exaggerating — she turned a lopsided bowl-shaped bit of clay into an oyster shell with a pearl inside by WHACKING it! How is this possible?? Well, Yukie is incredibly artistic, as you might be able to tell from my high school’s art gallery here.
Plus, clay and 3-D expression are not her only mediums. She also has a lot of unique painting and drawing styles, ranging from realism to Japanese animation-like to abstract. In the sketched “Art Room” piece below, Yukie arranged random objects found in the school’s art room– from old honors art portfolio projects to wall decorations — in an interesting organization of subject matter. With a good use of gradient shading, there is relatively little background white space. (The head-like shapes were sculptures that were sitting around the honors art classroom studio.)
Meanwhile, a lot of her painted works feature indefinite shapes and bold colorizations with uses of faded blues and greens contrasted against dark, broad brushes of black ink on rough canvas or even newsprint paper. There are also a lot of dotted patterns, ink blots, and random paint strokes that I would never be able to get away with but that work very well within these compositions. The dabbled watercolor additions ended up as interesting butterfly shapes. They give off an overall thoughtful tone and well-placed theme — as her artist statement says: “a flow of ideas.”
