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Eric: Who are some of your favorite painters?
Marley: Favorite artists…I like the ones from the 80’s like
Andy Warhol. Right now, I’m really into surrealism and Yves
Tanguy. I like Mateo a lot. Also, I really like artists on Instagram
that I’ve seen...like @killeracid, @odd.but.true.
E: I was actually going to ask: do you draw inspiration from
Surrealism?
M: Yeah, from Surrealism and Pop Art. I really like those
types of styles and very vibrant colors.
E: Why do you use more vibrant tones rather than muted
tones?
M: I feel like it’s mostly because I haven’t really gotten into
mixing colors…also I just really like bright colors. I think when
(paintings are) duller, it’s not as interesting. It’s more fun to
use bright colors.
E: Besides Surrealism and Pop art, what other art forms and
artists do you pull from for your vision?
M: I like to go to art museums and walk around. Obviously, I
don’t know all of the names of all of the paintings and artists,
but I have a few pieces that I like a lot. I also try to notice art
everywhere. A lot of my friends dabble in artistic things like
photography so it’s cool that I get to see their artwork and I
can get inspired by it. I also go to a lot of music shows and I
draw a lot of inspiration from music.
E: What musical artists do you draw from?
M: I’ve been painting some stuff for some of the local punk
bands like Bad Timing, Martha’s Got a Limp Wrist. I think I’ll
be doing one for the Electric Excuse Me’s. When I paint, I like
to put on Sonic Youth or MGMT. I also like to put on some
rap artists.
E: Like who?
M: Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, some SoundCloud rappers. Baby
Muva’s really good. She’s one of my favorites.
E: Why do you center your art on people?
M: Well that might be changing this summer, because I like
to draw a lot of geometrical type things and I don’t really
have time during the school year to paint them. But hopefully
this summer, I’ll be able to have more time to focus on that,
and I’ll be taking a drawing class and that’ll be my first art
class ever. I’m really excited to learn some new things. The
reason I started with people was I think that people are kind
of interesting, the way they look and the way that they’re
unique. You know, like two girls could both have blonde hair
and blue eyes, but that doesn’t mean they look the same.
Also, I really wanted to paint something and it’s what people
wanted to see.
E: How recently have you been painting people in your style?
M: I’ve always drawn and doodled, but I started painting
actually this past summer and at first I would give them out
for free to my friends, and then I started getting more of a
demand for them so I started painting other people and I
guess that’s how we got here today. Last July is how it kind
of started.
E: What does your past art look like compared to your art
today? Cause I noticed that in your paintings that people
have more geometric features. You said last July is when
you started painting portraits, so before that, would you
paint other things?
M: I painted just random things, you know, whatever came to
mind. I didn’t keep a lot of pictures of my old one’s because I
didn’t like them that much.
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