About Me

-

  1. Who are you?
    My name is Jabriya. I'm a sophomore transfer student majoring in visual studies.
  2. Where are you from?
    I'm from Easton, Pennsylvania.
  3. Tell me something interesting about yourself?
    I started college at Saint Joseph's University as an art education major in 2011. This is my first semester back in school and I'm very excited.
  4. What kind of art do you like to make?
    I love oil painting and drawing in graphite and charcoal.
  5. What apps/programs (phone/computer) do you use most frequently and what for?
    Chrome for internet browsing, Gmail for my email needs, Messenger and Snapchat for contact with friends, and Youtube for music and videos if I want to kill time.
  6. Who is your favorite artist (share a link or photo)?
    Depends.
    If it's contemporary oil: Alyssa Monks. I've met her. She's brilliant.
    Image result for Alyssa monks steamed 2009  Image result for Alyssa monks steamed 2009
    If it's surrealist photography: Kyle Thompson


    If it's surrealist sculpture: Jim Mckenzie
    http://jimmckenzie.net/video/scarecrow-making-video

    That was a lot, but that's what happens when you try to make me choose.
  7. Who is your favorite musician (share a link)?
    Again, not easy to choose. I like a lot of different music. My top 2 album recommendations are Illuminate by Lydia and In Love and Death by The Used.
  8. What do you hope to get out of this class?
    I'd like do have a decent understanding of Photoshop and similar programs that I can use to advance my personal art.
  9. Can you sit still for an hour?
    Sure.
  10. What is your relationship to visual studies?
    It's a new field of study for me. I'm just beginning to learn more about it.
  11. What is the relationship between computers and visual studies?
    I think there's a huge, positive connection between the two. The internet has made it significantly easier to study art and share art with people globally. We're using computers to make art digitally and communicating visually in a lot of new ways.
  12. What is your experience with Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere?
    I've seen people work in Photoshop, but I've never used it myself.
  13. Do you have a computer at home? If so does it have Photoshop and Illustrator? Mac or PC?
    I have a PC. I have neither Photoshop nor Illustrator.
  14. Write a five line story.
    Once upon a time there was a girl who loved roller skating. Her grandfather would take her to the skating rink every week to practice. She fell quite a lot at first, but as the weeks went by, the number of falls she took decreased. After a while she even got kind of decent at going backwards! The girl doesn't skate as much these days, but she still finds an inner peace on 8 wheels when she does.
  15. Post an image.

    Painting of my little brother

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

One Step at a Time #10

-
Image
All of my blog identity posts up to this point have featured steps in places I have been. For my final post in this series, I wanted to show steps that I would like to one day visit. These are what the stairs look like inside the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The marble has been warped by visitors climbing the steps for hundreds of years. It's fascinating that if you repeat one footstep enough times, you can move stone. All things take work and time. Hopefully with my own hard work and time I will get to climb these steps as well as other steps around the world. 
Read more

Identity Composite Brainstorming

-
Image
T he sketches are a bit rough. I planned to do a more refined sketch after deciding which idea will be the one I want to move forward with.  Left: The scene takes place in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The paintings and sculptures are replaced with aspects of my identity. Not to say that I hold myself as highly as the art in the museum, but taking the museum for what is is for me, a comfortable place to observe and reflect. Right: I did a dollhouse scene for this sketch. I think it provides a sense of nostalgia which is definitely a part of my personality. Each room inside the house represents a different aspect of myself.  Left: The space is a nonspecific room in this sketch. The subject definitely comes forward more than my previous two sketches. The main focus is my hand holding various versions of myself. The thing I like about this one is that it can be interpreted as my life being in my own hands. Right: This one is more a play on evaluating aspects of mys
Read more

My Favorite Street Artists

-
Image
By far my favorite street artists are the Spanish duo Pichi and Avo.   I absolutely adore the way they combine the chaotic, edgy feel of graffiti with the elegance and form of classical art. The work they put into it is just phenomenal. It blows my mind every time. More at http://www.pichiavo.com/graffiti/
Read more