Instagram: @juliar.art Email: [email protected] Are any of your friends interested in art or your art at least?
Yeah, one of my really good friends named, Abby, does ceramics. At school we have this thing called the crafts center and she took me in there, and you can do ceramics or glass-blowing. She was showing me all these different types of art and showing me what she makes. It’s really cool, it inspired to try new forms. What kind of people do you surround yourself with? Um, people like her. People who are really supportive and caring. All my close friends are people that I can just talk to about anything and we have a lot of shared interests. I think a lot of people I surround myself with, we have a similar mindset, where we question things and talk about everything together. We care, you know? I don't know if that sounds pretentious or anything [laughs] but I don't know, just people that make feel comfortable and love the same things I love. Is there any advice you’d like to give to artists who aren’t sure if they want to pursue a career in art? Yeah, it’s a really hard thing. It’s hard to allow yourself to do that, you know? I think you should just go for it, though. One thing that someone told me is to find something that you love and that you can do everyday and try to figure out how you can make money from it. Because if you love it, you're going to do it anyways, you’re going to stick with it and be driven. I think that’s the most important thing, if you go for it and take the time to feel okay about yourself doing it, like convince yourself this is right. I’m okay doing this, this is an okay path. This is something that I love and that is a valid thing, to do what you love. Have you ever taken art classes? If so, have they improved your artistic abilities? Yeah, definitely. I think art classes taught me the basic skills and how to convey things. They also taught me deadlines. High school’s like how to make a giant project in a month or two, and then college is like how to make a giant project, or two projects, in five days [laughs] so it definitely taught me how to manage my time and how to just commit to drawing for an entire day. You learn how to do the technical skills better. Who are your biggest supporters? Probably my parents. Mostly my mom, she’ll support anything I do. My friends have been really great too. Were there any people who doubted you when you made the decision to pursue art? Probably also my parents, you know? When I was trying to choose my major I was like, “Maybe I should do it, maybe I should be an art major.” They kept asking, “Are you sure? Should you just go in Undeclared?” That kind of scared me a bit. I did go in Undeclared but it was “Undeclared: Fine Arts” because I wasn’t willing to make that jump. But that actually kind of helped me. Because I was Undeclared, I decided to take a Design class and I realized that this is everything that I wanted to be and I’m going to be a Design Major instead. Do you have any themes for your work? I tend to draw patterns and nature and I think a lot of that comes from patterns in nature. When I doodle it takes my mind off things so I’ll just draw continuous, organic shapes. That kind of contrasts from classwork where it’s like some precise thing. Do you have any family members who are interested in art or are artists themselves? My grandma actually paints a lot, and its really cool. In a back room of her house she has so many paints and everything. As a kid—and even now—she gives me boxes of paint. She doesn’t really do too much anymore but I think that was a really big part of her life. So when I was a kid me and my sister would always go over there and we’d just be in the back room painting. I’d just be mixing colors, like wasting the paint! [laughs] How do you feel when you finish a new project? Really good. Especially if it’s something that took me all day, multiple days. Or if I worked on it for 12 hours that day. It feels really nice if it’s something I’m really proud of. Nothing is better than hanging something up in a critique that you feel so good about. And you're like “I know this is good, because I worked so hard on it. I did it and it’s okay.” Yeah, I love that feeling.
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