My name is Kyleigh Salinas, this is my class blog for my Art 200x class I'm attending through UAF online. I've lived in Alaska my whole life, except in July I moved with my boyfriend to Salt Lake City, Utah. I decided to continue through UAF online because moving is chaotic and the last thing I wanted to do was transfer schools. Plus, I like UAF (and the in-state tuition.) I'm an early childhood education major and a kindergarten teacher here in Salt Lake.
An artist that I really love is Aya Takano. She's a Japanese Superflat artist who does a lot of portraits of colorful, gender ambiguous, and child-like figures. I like that her paintings are abstract and almost cartoon-like. They intentionally reflect the anime and manga art styles.
I enjoy taking art classes because I draw and paint. Usually, I mix mediums like watercolor and pen, or colored pencils and markers. I've been creating art for as long as I remember, but only as a hobby. I miss the first Fridays in Fairbanks, they don't do them here. At least not to my knowledge. But, I'm excited to visit art museums here in Salt Lake. I look forwards to this class because I'd like to understand more of the art that I look at beyond how I perceive it off the bat.
