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The name is Sarah E. Walsh, I use my work of art as a way to express God's blessings to this world. And God has been my biggest inspiration. Life has brought many things, and throughout all that I have been through I have realized one thing; art has always been my passion and God has never failed to amaze and guide me. I hope that when others see my art their minds are open to see the beauty of this world. One of my favorite things in life it to experience a calm inspiring setting, where I can feel peace, serenity, joy, and happiness. Whether I am driving in my car, with the wind in my hair, or walking along a calm lake where you can hear the stillness of life, I use my camera to capture those pictorial settings. These experiences often spark an inspiration to create art. My interest with different mediums and art styles is constantly expanding. If we slow down, stop, and thoroughly examine all the natural beauty that is around us, we can experience a little more spice to life, hence my blog titled 'Salt to the Earth'.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Foshay Funanza

   Foshay Funanza 
Digital Print
Oct 27th, 2010. Photo Taken by: unknown, stolen from: google images. Photo Edited by Sarah E. Walsh.

-Here is an edited version of the Foshay Tower which stands in Minneapolis, Mn. I used an image that I had found online... really wasn't up for the idea of stealing somebody elses photograph, but I was unable to make it to the Foshay Tower myself to capture an image. With this image I flipped it vertically... live traced to make the colored photograph pure black and white cartoonie, and added a background that I did take myself of a leaf. I edited the leaf- messed around with the levels, saturation, curves, color balance, and brightness/contrast. I also changed the segment of the picture that lies directly behind the Foshay building to a lighter brightness just to add a little more of an appeal. I then added font- bent it and added a background to it, that once again, was an image that I had taken.



Weathering Away Foshay 
Mixed Media
By: Sarah E. Walsh Oct. 23rd 2010

 
This image was done using sketchbook paper, a pencil, watercolor, acrylic, cotton balls, and a little bit of rubbing alcohol (for spot affects). 
This idea was just there... I really love silhouettes and bold colors, so I used that idea. Even though the Foshay Tower is weathering away... as with everything of this Earth, it is still adored by many, and has been restored and kept alive.




Artists Visual Stimuli of the Foshay
Mixed Media
By: Sarah E. Walsh, Oct. 24th 2010

 My favorite medium to use is a simple pen followed by coloring with watercolor. This is what I used in this picture. I wanted to come up with a really creative artsy concept of the Foshay Tower, and that is what I used for this image. Since the Foshay Tower was build in 1929, just a few months before the stock market crashed, and the Great Depression shortly followed the construction of Minneapolis's largest skyscraper at the time, I added a quote from Calvin Coolidge about the great depression. I also added a little money jar. I wanted to incorporate some sort of history in this image. 


Note *A lot of my ideas develop as I hold my pen to the paper and start with a circle. The rest follows randomly by images in my head that outline what I have drawn. Abstract is intriguing in my eyes, and that is what naturally comes to me a lot of the times when I am drawing.
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