Wednesday, April 1, 2015

About Me



Hello!  My name is Steph.  I’m an aspiring art major hailing from Los Angeles, specifically the San Fernando Valley.  I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember, but it wasn’t until I entered high school that I discovered and fell in love with the art of oil painting.  Now, it’s my medium of choice.  Most of the work I do consists of photo-realistic portraits.  I like to use musicians as subjects, mostly because I’m already somewhat familiar with their faces and it makes it easier for me to capture their likeness.  My parents have always been and continue to be incredibly supportive of my art, for which I am very grateful.  Neither of them is particularly artsy, and they’re not quite sure where I got my creativity from.  One thing I did inherit from them, however, is a love for music.  All my life I’ve been surrounded by stacked towers of CD’s, concerts, instruments, and recording equipment.  A couple months ago I found out my parents left me at home with a babysitter when I was 6 days old to go to an Alice Cooper concert.  It’s really no surprise that I attend as many shows as I do now.  My favorite bands are The Strokes, Vampire Weekend, and Arctic Monkeys.  I’m a big fan of owning physical copies of music, so probably a third of my dorm room is taken up with vinyl records and stacks of CD’s.  I also have the tendency to decorate whatever space I inhabit, meaning that every empty space on the walls in my room is covered in pictures, posters, concert tickets, setlists, and more.  I don’t know what I want to do with my life yet.  The dream would be to find something that incorporates both art and the music business.  I’m sure I’ll figure it out eventually. 

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