New Year, New job, New plans, New opportunities, New… stuff.
2013 opened at a rapid pace with welcome changes, and I can
now legally introduce myself as a Graphic Designer for the national signage and
advertising firm FASTSIGNS. Included in the job description… the design and
production of custom graphics, logos and backgrounds for tradeshow banners,
window displays, billboards, menus, props, decals, vehicle graphics, wall art,…
You name it, we print it or have a subsidiary that does it for us. FASTSIGNS presented
me a welcome departure, well received, from previous careers that had no focus
on art. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
My duties continue with the Pinellas Park Art Society. In
addition to welcoming new members I have been seeking venues for the display of
public art. The first of which was Largo Public Library’s Gallery 120. The
Library welcomed thirty artists of PPAS, for a month long show in their
spacious gallery wing and we eagerly await our next opportunity to display our
work. If you own or work with a venue in Tampa Bay with ample wall space and an
appreciation for fine art, send me an email. We at PPAS have the talent to give
you a great exhibit.
It’s still only January and already my works have hung in
Ruth Eckerd Hall, Park station, Largo Public Library, Suntan Art Center, The Menaul
Fine Art Gallery and more, but 2013 shall be a year when I aim to do more with
my art. I’m reaching out to my peers for critique, and taking up, anew, many of
the artistic genres that I enjoyed prior to college… Charcoal, Pencils, Pen and ink, Pastels. My
sketches have hung in Park Station and Suntan Gallery in previous shows, but I
hesitate to give my sketches equal billing, beside my photography, until I know
that others view them as quality art. (In truth, my drawing style arises from
the techniques I have learned from many different peers and professors. Some of
those instructors emphasized point perspective and the golden ratio, others
insisted that art based on math is “cold” and encouraged emotion at the expense
of perspective. Not all the techniques I learned work well together. So I aim
to attain “the nod of approval” from at least a few peers who owe their good reputation
to similar art.) Perhaps soon I will have online galleries devoted to sketches
as well?
Thanks for reading
L Polyak
Below: Anatomy of a work in progress
(2 C More Art go to www.themindscapeartfoundry.com or www.artoflylepolyak.com)
