I graduated with a baccalaureate in arts last december. During that time, I took classes with some artist professors, and they always talked about finding yourself as an artist. You know, that stuff of using your life experiences and your way of being to make art. Is the only way or at least, the most sincere one to make your style unique and a honest piece. It always frustrated me that when in a painting class for example, a presentation of a project day come, every student painted theirselves or the flower her boyfriend gave her last Valentines Day, maybe a man walking into nowhere, or some manga stuff... and the professors believe in them as originals. But when I came out with a vampire portrait, I was just another one with a cliche, with a tend, with the stupid obsession with vampires that every stupid girl now have thanks to modern writers, mostly...bad modern writers. Because I could say that my intro to vampires was Anne Rice, and c'mon! thats just HUGE, that's art! So I'm not talking just to talk.
Shamely I find myself in a time of the world when vampires are very friendly, protagonist of fairytales, t-shirt and "Hot Topic" pins. Where little girls who wanted to be princesses now wants to be vampires. Because they are good and lovable. They fight everyday with the thought of become human again.
But people please understand, this is not the world I grew.
The world I grew up vampires were found in terror tales. They were assasins, predators, seductive creatures of the night.
I wish I could let everyone know that for me, painting vampires is not a cliche, I don't do it just because I like them now or because I dream with having a vampire boyfriend. The way "Interview with the Vampire" got into me when I was only 4 years old, it is inexplicable. And the only way I feel complete when I am painting, is painting vampires.
I want people to understand that when I do, I'm also leaving a part of me in there. My heart, my soul, my brain is expressing through my hands. I'm being sincere and I'm using art to let the world know who I am. And please do not misunderstand me now, I am not a vampire. I am not a vampire wanna be. I'm not even consider myself as a dark/gothic person. I'm very down to earth, and I know I am just human, and a weak subdivision of human by the way. But I am also very open minded.
I am a christian, I believe in God. I believe in evil too. I believe in fairies and elves, in spirits and witches. I believe in werewolves, in a sixth sense. I believe in Big Foot and Jeepers Creeper. I believe in other dimensions, in Thor and Neo. I believe in vampires.
My goal is to grew in art. In my art. No matter what people might think. I'm not going to change what I feel and what I do just because some people can't understand what it means to me. It's me, my thing, what I do, just me. And I've never been most honest in my life! So don't you dare to say to me my art it's not part of me or that I'm part of a tend, cause you are very very wrong.
Sincerely;
Yarianna
Ps: And this is for my original pieces, fan-art it's another thing.
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