Summary Of Creative Research Grant Results And Artistic Statement

• Main Authors: Whitley, Marguerite McQuarrie, Smith, Bruce Hixon
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2014
• Subjects: painting objects; chairs; shirts; visual arts; Art and Design; Orca
• Online Access: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2014/iss1/400; https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/context/jur/article/2739/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf

The outcome of my final show was different than what I had originally proposed when I applied for an ORCA grant. I began as I had planned, studying the figure in sessions at the Springville art museum, and I had started and nearly completed 15 smaller paintings with the largest dimension being 15 inches. In these paintings I used images from magazines and sketches in a collage approach. With these paintings I made the mistake of wanting to include everything: environment, objects, and people. Upon showing these images to a couple of professors working with me on my final show to receive their advise on how to continue with my final show, they advised me to focus on what was most successful in these small studies-the objects instead of the entire collage. I began focusing on single objects in oil paintings with dimensions of 43″ x 48″. Originally, I planned to do four paintings, but, following the suggestion of one of my professors, I ended up doing six paintings.