Ok, so I haven’t been updating my site with my class updates because I haven’t really liked any of them. This last assignment is a large piece that should represent me as an artist. I had to really think about that. At first I just came up with some simple ideas that would make for good paintings. Yes, they would be good but not great/inspiring. Me as person is similar to me as an artist. My personality is big and exciting like a turn up rap song and I want my audience to feel that way too. I think it’s important at this stage in my career to really channel my Purpose, Personality and Design in my personal work to allow my pieces to transcend the horde of mediocrity that exists on socials. Everyone can draw, everyone can paint but few can think. The amount of originality I see online is staggeringly low and I simply won’t be a part of that. So for this assignment I went back to the pages of 2014 Greg and created a larger than life project environment called “Ballers Paradise.”  It’s an imaginative civilization that worships basketball that takes Oia Greece and gives it African influences. Most of my sketches for this project have been rough idea doodles but I’ll be updating my site with a series of full images to articulate this location soon. From now on I’ll be putting enough love into all of my projects to make my audience dream bigger when they see it and be taken to a place where their child selves are allowed to run free! Here are a some pages of thinking I’ve done on this project.

Greg Mitchell, From words of Paul Shardlow “Research the competition!”