Find a just Yellow!! Islip is one of ten towns in Suffolk County, New York, United States. Located on the south shore of Long Island, the town population was 335,543 at the 2010 census, it is the fourth most populous city or town in the state. An arts council is a government or private non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts, mainly by funding local artists, awarding prizes, and organizing arts events. Therefore, in each region there is an Art Council that is named after that region. Islip art council is one of them. I am currently a member of the Smithtown Art Council. This time, I got out of the area where I was active and looked further south. And I joined the Islip Art Council. I participated in the open call at the same time as I signed up. One calls make an opportunity for many artists to give themselves a prompt, a structure, a set of boundaries, and a deadline when working in the studio. They open artists up to new exposure, connections, and potential prizes if their work gets selected. If you use these open calls well, you can make your work known to the public in more regions and in more forms, and you can increase your awareness as a painter. I also applied for the open call with about a day left until the deadline at the place where I signed up as a member. Most of the Open Calls invite only one jury to recruit works by artists over the age of 18 for most mediums on a specific subject. And the works selected by the judges will be notified at the designated time. The theme of the open call I applied for this time was" just yellow". It is a picture that makes good use of the energy, meaning and symbolism of yellow. A color other than yellow should be used as an accent, and no more than three other colors should be used. For artists who are considering an open call, it would be good to make works in as many colors as possible. I also looked up works related to the subject in my database. The picture below captures the moment when a bee flies over a sunflower. It contains a strong yellow color and was used in the application. Below is a yellow rose. Although it is the work with the most yellow color, I felt tired of it, so I only put it on the nominations and did not use it in the application. In the picture below, green is included in addition to yellow, but it felt like a struggle toward a happy yellow, so I used this picture for the application. Below is a still life painted lightly like a study, but I didn't use it in the application because the orange color seemed to stick more. And below, I used the name of Happy Sunflower to apply. I personally like the bright, dark yellow color. The two pictures below were also candidate pictures, but they were excluded this time. These two pictures did not apply to me, hoping that the energy of yellow would catch my eye first. In this way, selecting candidate pictures with an open call in mind and selecting the corresponding pictures from among them sometimes means a lot to me. It is a good opportunity for me to become a judge of my own drawings and to guess what kind of picture I should draw and how to draw it in the future by choosing.
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Immigrant life In Korean, there is a word called Bae Soo-jin as a combat term. Bae Soo-jin refers to setting up camp with your back to the river in order to make the soldiers fight to death by making them have nowhere to run in battle. This not only refers to the actual battle camp, but also metaphorically refers to “a situation where there is no backside as if you hit a bae-soo-jin”. Among the words used in the Western world, there are the following words. “Burn Your Bridges/Boats”. The meaning of this sentence is that it is by a river, and breaking a bridge or setting a ship on fire means that there is no way back. So, it is used in a similar meaning to hitting Bae Sujin in Korean. I sometimes describe the life of immigrants with the above words. Meanwhiles, it is tough to live as an immigrant without burning the return bridge. Immigrants are well aware of what it's like to live in a foreign country with regret and constantly look back on their hometown. And I know that the more profound the nostalgia for my hometown, the more difficult it is to look forward to the life of immigrants and the blueprint for the future. When you arrive in a foreign country, all the time you have experienced at that moment stops until that country becomes your own country. Like a child who has to be reborn and adapt to a new environment, as if traveling in time, you have to learn everything one by one, adapt, and go through trial and error to challenge yourself. And you have to jump into the job market to make a living. At this time, no benefits are allowed as foreigners. Under the same conditions, they are desperately trying to get a job that is essential to maintaining their status. In a foreign land where immigrants have arrived, the careers and experiences they have cultivated with zero ground. In this regard, many immigrants feel two emotions. On the one hand, immigrants feel hope for future rewards for their challenges. On the other hand, you have to fight isolation, loneliness and frustration, standing in a barren wilderness with no one to help and no one concern to your situation. As an immigrant, I am also facing adventures and going through many trials and errors. No reason for poverty or political issue, but because of the abilities we and our families have that are well suited to a particular country and region, we flew and settled like a sailboat sailing in a natural tailwind. However, I think that immigration is one of my destiny, but it may be a subject of curiosity, rejection, or sometimes worry to the settlers who have already settled and lived. Because immigrants recognize this fact, they try to obey the law and always try to be kind with a learning attitude. Of course, not all immigrants are like this. However, the immigration they experienced was like a field that allowed them to leave everything in the past and stand at the starting line again, that is, a lesson in humility. So, they try to obey the laws and rules of the place they settle in and become a member who can do something to help the community. Although life for immigrants is hard and each day is a series of days when you don't know what's going to happen, there are many reasons why immigrants take up this challenge. And when you set out for an unfamiliar land, you may have set out to find your own solution to life that you couldn't find in your home country. And you may be being rewarded for your challenges by constantly asking yourself questions and seeking answers. Seeing this series of processes as immigration, I too became an immigrant without realizing it, and now I am about to take the oath of American citizenship, but I do not regret the life of an immigrant. Because I was born as a Korean myself, I am always grateful that I had another opportunity to go back to the beginning and learn from the beginning in one part of my life. Because I am grateful to be born as a Korean and to be able to go back to the beginning in one part of my life. Just as a baby learns to walk, learns to speak, recognizes its surroundings and creates a self-image when taking its first steps, I also created a new self in a new environment. For example, if I was in Korea, I would never have become a painter. There was very little chance of that happening, and I don't think there was any intention to do so. But it seems that while I was struggling to survive alone in a new environment and unspoken, I asked myself more questions and spent more time waiting for answers. This is one of the biggest advantages of immigrant life. There was a process of realizing what I really wanted to do and what I wanted to become. There is no doubt that the life of an immigrant has become a catalyst for me to find what I really want to be and want to be. So I like to try new things and experiment with different things. I think that life itself is a place of great experimentation, where you make a lot of mistakes, learn from them, and discover your true self. From this point of view, every day is hard, complicated, but the life of an immigrant has the power to make you think about life itself.
US Citizenship oath date status Naturalization is a way for a person to become a U.S. citizen. Below is a general overview of what to expect during the naturalization process. After you apply for US citizenship and go through an interview, you will be given citizenship after taking an oath. If you want to know the date and place of the oath, just enter the number written on your receipt on the site below. Watercolor, Acrylic and digital Art. Painting is creating shapes by painting various color materials including paints on canvas or paper. Therefore, studying the properties of colors and paints can help you a lot in drawing. Color is determined by the perception of light reflected from an object by our eyes. For example, my favorite blue paint is not blue, but rather absorbs colors other than blue and reflects only blue, resulting in blue to our eyes. In conclusion, since the color of paint is determined by what color it reflects, the more colors it reflects, the brighter it gets and the less it reflects, the darker it gets. Also, when two colors are mixed, the color absorbed is doubled, so it is inevitably dark or cloudy. Paints are made up of a colorant, which means a pigment or dye, and a medium and some additives. The colorant determines the color of the paint and adjusts the density with the constitution, and the medium determines the properties of the paints such as watercolor and oil paints. If you study the properties of these paints, you will be able to handle the materials more easily. In addition, painters constantly study and explore the habits of these materials and experiment to fuse them into their own styles. As an artist, I like to try various mediums. And as it was in the past, now and of course in the future, the quest for these materials will continue like a kind of play. As a part of that meaning, I selected my personal favorite works and other candidates in the order of material, namely, watercolor, acrylic, and media art, of the paintings I've drawn over the past 10 years. 1. watercolor First of all, the first painting I chose was, of course, the candle painting. It is a painting that conveys the confidence that I can express the temperature of an object with watercolor paint. Most of all, it is most meaningful to me that I tried a $1 watercolor paint that was difficult to show in good quality due to the low concentration of pigment, rather than professional watercolor paint. Below are also works painted with watercolor paints for $1. I have selected 6 of our favorite pieces from among the works that contain technique research and new attempts. 2. Acrylic paint It was the first ingredient I tried and I am still enjoying it. I chose acrylic because it is durable, dries quickly and gives a good texture. In particular, it is very good to express the vitality and movement of an object with the advantage of being able to leave the flow and marks of the brush on the canvas. The selected picture below is the picture titled Overcome. I got the idea that the tree is the one that has the body history of overcoming pain and difficulties over the years, and I wanted to draw the viability of the tree. Acrylic is a good material for expressing this rough, strong and magnificent energy. This feeling has nothing to do with the size of the canvas. Compared to watercolor paints, acrylic paints are easier to express strong and dynamic energy. Above all, the feeling of acrylic or oil paints is clearly different when you see them up close. I call these two mediums the sculptural works that paint can create. For example, if you haven't seen Van Gogh's work up close, you probably won't understand what this means. Acrylic or oil painting adds to the dramatic fun created by the shiny and dark areas depending on the layer, texture, and viewing angle of the paint. That's why I recommend seeing the works up close if possible. 3. Digital Art Digital art The digital art is my preferred medium when I do not have enough time, but when I want to express the inspiration in my head. When I have no affordance to take out the paint or put it away, or take the paint and paint it one by one with a brush, digital makes what I want to express something at once. And digital is a field of experimentation that allows me to go through a lot of trial and error without worrying about the cost of canvas or paints. For digital art like this, I mainly draw on a tablet through the Adobe suits. The picture below is one of my favorite digital art pieces. It comforted me meanwhile I experienced a shutdown for the first time in my life at the peak of the pandemic. Coming soon! Little Black Book, a Juried Fine Art exhibition, in Mills Pond Gallery! I am a member of the Mills Pond Gallery, which has a historic tradition in the area of St. James, Long Island, New York. It is affiliated with the Smithtown Arts Council and I have been a member of both since 2018. If you go to the artist registry menu in the gallery, you can check my work and my history. We're going to hold a Juried art exhibition called 'Little Black Book' here. Yesterday I received a brief information from the gallery. If you look at the poster below, the part marked in red is my work, Life is. The part marked in red on the bottom poster is my work, Life is. Take time to engage with the arts…maybe you will be challenged by the views represented...maybe what you experience will shift your thinking in some way or help you understand contradictory perspectives…See What the Arts Can Open Your Eyes To! |
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