Living with Art - Final Paper

Living With Art Final Paper

For this assignment you asked us to highlight an artist and tell why their work stands out to us. Most people will probably pick a famous artist with work we have all seen before, but my artist isn’t so famous. Linda Huber is the artist I have chosen to highlight.

I have always been a big fan of pencil drawings and Linda Huber is amazing with this media. Linda is a modern day artist and she is still producing art today. She specializes in drawing in the form of realism. Her artwork leaves me speechless.

The thing I really like about Linda is not only her artwork but how she came to be an artist. Linda started drawing at a young age and she is self taught. She says that after years of practice her work became more and more detailed and today her artwork is breathtaking. The reason why her story means so much to me is i feel the same way. I started drawing at a young age and today I love to draw for hours at a time. My skill level is much lower than hers but her story gives me hope that maybe I could reach that level one day. People have always told me that I have a gift; I just have yet to find a way to use it.

As I said earlier Linda’s chosen media is pencil on paper. One of her most amazing pieces is entitled “Drink”. It’s a drawing of a wine glass being field with liquid. Having drawn some myself I know how hard it is to make a liquid look realistic, Linda has mastered this so well that the drawing looks like a photograph. The way she has mastered the shading and the placement of the shadows really brings the drawing to life. Also the reflection of the liquid is so realistic it looks wet to the touch. Even the shapes of the air bubbles in the water are complex and highly detailed. The rim of the wine glass is shaded so that it appears to have a smooth rounded edge. And at the base of the glass she used shading to show that the glass is thicker at the base