Archive for November, 2008

Carmine Magazine: What name do you go by for your art?
Meghan Murphy: Meghan Murphy (just my plain old name)

CM: What drives you to create?
MM: I’m not sure if I have a good answer for this. All I know is that I’m cranky when I can’t make something.
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Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Mike Kulick: My whole life I grew up in awe of artists who sacrificed for their work. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Beethoven, and van Gogh just to name a few. They slaved over there art to the point of madness, I always found that to be so inspiring, and interesting. As a young child, my main driving force was ancient Egypt and the artwork the Egyptians created. I used to copy famous works from the walls of Tutankhamen on my bedroom walls. My mother didn’t like that. That childhood attachment is still present in my art today with my sharpie work. I am driven to create my art by sitting down and thinking of the most detailed and complex work of art in my head, and then try my hardest to transfer it to canvas.

CM: Were you formally trained in art or self taught? Do you think it has helped you or hindered you?
MK: I don’t have any formal training in any art subject. I never really liked school and I felt that art was something I could never really learn in the classroom. All of the artwork I have created came from my own experiences, thoughts and emotions. I taught myself various techniques by studying well known artists myself.
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Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Mark Andrew Webber: I have been thinking about this quite a bit recently, and it just seems like the enjoyment of creating a piece is what drives me, the feeling with a lot of my work that it is going to take a long time to complete with the knowledge of that feeling I get when I am about to complete a piece that I have been doing for so long, like the amsterdam piece for example, without the design time included so just the carving time, it took me 100+ hours in 7 days… once I get working on a piece, I like to do it in one go with not too many breaks.
I like trying to create images that I have not seen too much before! Which is why I seem to enjoy doing drawings that I do not design so much before I put pen to paper, but ones that seem to come into existence, which is why I enjoy the line drawings, and why I have also then started doing them on canvas and in color.
Travel has to be the thing that inspires me the most, There are so many images/experiences and new types of people that I have never met. Like when I was in Australia for 5 months doing conservation work with Conservation Volunteers Australia, I had an amazing time, and met lots of people from all over the world that had gotten together to live and work, in different parts of australia. Then I went to to have even more experiences as I went to live with a friend I had made who lived near seattle, and visited a high school for a month. When I arrived home I produced a lot of work, it seemed like there was no end to the number of works I could make, though I did not really create anything significant, it was still me searching for the types of works I enjoyed creating the most. So it was great! I have since been on various trips. Argentina, East cost of the USA, Paris, India, Netherlands. And have seen the effects that these trips have had on my works.
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Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Sergio E. Redigolo Gusella: I guess everything started since I was a child, everytime I create something is like a meditation process, I enjoy bring my imagination into reality, bring all my dreams and creation into the eyes of the public, also to be able to create reality with my bear hands is one of the greatest accomplishment feelings I can ask for.
Almost Everything gives me inspiration to create art, from bad or good times, all my life experiences have thought me things that I have taken with me into my art. But I would also say that Mythology, History, science and politics are my main focus of “inspiration supply” in the last couple of years. Besides that I would say that the process of making art is also one of my biggest drives to create.

CM: Were you formally trained in art or self taught? Do you think it has helped you or hindered you?
SRG I’m major in Fine arts, but I believe that most of what I know today came with a lot of dedication and self teachings, most on which I got from books and by doing professionally. I do believe that for an artist, been original is very important and unfortunately schools do not allows too much of originality at the individual level. For technical skills, I would say that schools and books are the best way to get it, but, for been able to bring who you are into your art takes a lot of discipline and time to learn more about yourself. Unfortunately in today’s society, is really hard for an artist to find the time for that.
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