Introduction and my relationship with art
This is the personal and academic blog of Shawn McCarthy. For those of you familiar with me you will know that I have a hot and cold relationship with art in general. I have very intense eras of creation and then there are times when I cannot make any type of art at all. Some of it has to do with the fact that for me art is about an emotion that I am trying to express. If I don't have anything I want to express then I don't. The last time I did anything consistently with art was in North Pole High School's AP art program, in 2006. My primary medium was graphite and charcoal. I started to move into acrylic painting with some mixed media, but I found that to be altogether awful. Acrylic dries incredibly fast in the Alaskan air. Art to me is a refinement in technical skill, a visual organizational tool, and a therapeutic process. If the medium interferes with either of those items then I am not interested in it. It doesn't serve me. I should have perhaps tried oi