Artist: Sienna Browne
Exhibition: Product of the Palette
Media: oil paint
Gallery: Black Umbrella Tattoo and Art Gallery
Website: https://www.siennabrowneart.com
This past Wednesday while attending our Art 110 class a local Artist named Sienna Brown came and presented her work, “Product of the Pallete”.
Sienna Browne is graduate student at California State University, Long Beach. She is majoring in Drawing and painting while balancing being a beach lifeguard, middle school youth leader at Rock Harbor Church and Instructional Student Assistant for the art department at Long Beach State. Not only that but Sienna has been in love with art since she picked up a crayon.
Nevertheless, her piece “Ice Cream Dream” was absolutely beautiful. The color palette especially amazed me. The combination of the dark purples/blues with the light pastel pinks really creates great contrast in the piece and gives the piece some depth. Not only that but the blended line work is also amazing. As well as the shape and shading, it makes the piece look so round and 3D.
All in all her pieces are a reflection of her life experiences. She uses her passion of art to work through obstacles in her past by facing and re-experiencing past pain. All the social pressures, bullying, perfectionism eating disorders, the exclusion throughout middle and high school, the death of her father all were factors that were put into her pieces. She learned that creativity was the only way to get through the struggles she had and how it all in all had healing properties.
Overall my experience with this piece has only been pleasant. It has inspired me to branch out into other medias especially paint because I have only used watercolor and acrylic paints. I would really like to experience oil painting and how well they blend compared to others. All in all her pieces have been absolutely beautiful and inspire me to continue my art journey even though I have been discouraged many times before hand.
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