As an artist, I don’t have many defining features. I enjoy working with acrylic paint, gouache, and sometimes pen/paper, but I use other mediums from time to time. I don’t like to conform to deadlines and guidelines, but rather I enjoy making art on my own schedule and enjoying the process of it. I create art for my own personal pleasure and happiness, and I think that one of the major motivators for me is knowing that I will be able to give my artwork to other individuals after it is done. It is very rare that I keep pieces of my own artwork, and if I do keep them it often means that I do not like the way that it turned out because if I did, I would have given it away. I have a tendency to work abstract and semi-realistic; some of the common ideas throughout my works have been the portrayal of hands and how they can convey different ideas, as well as very simplistic line art (whether it be in paint or pen). I have always been very interested in the study of hands and their ability to tell a story. I think that many artists have a general idea of what they want their audience to perceive their work as, but I think that my approach is much more up for interpretation. While creating art, I think about what I perceive an image as, and wonder what my audience will see it as. I do not hope for a certain idea to be conveyed but rather it excites me to hear the different interpretations of something that I created through someone else's eyes. Throughout the time I have been working on my thesis I have developed an appreciation for the patience needed to enhance all of the fine details until they are exactly how you would like them. For my thesis I chose to do a series of drawings on plexiglass, all relating in some way to one of the five senses. Using water-based paint pens I was able to achieve a layered effect through different panes of plexiglass, conveying my overall goal of complexity and levels.