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About Me Member Deviously Deviant Shawn Semelsberger23/Female/United States

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This year has been a very exciting year for me artisitically. I just recieved my first college degree in Sociology, divorced my partner of 5 years and took on body art. I started a small company called Imagination Face Creation. We specialize in makeup and body art. You can see some of my face paintings and special effects work done. It has been so thereputic to be able to rekindle with my artisiric side as it was neglected for so many years as I had a career in my early 20's and was attending school.
I am now taking a short rest and enjoying the expression via Imagination.
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One of my first doll images. This was created nine years ago when I was 14, It was before I was familiar with Johan Vasque or Ryden. It is one of my beloved pieces because I was so young when I made it and it came out of one of my favorite sketch books.

I always wanted to have a company called Rag Doll Inc. I am not sure why, or what exactly that company was going to do, several years ago my sister and I wanted to start a clothing line and thought about using a variation of this logo. We nver started the company as I was too busy with school and my activism. She opened a coffess shop.

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Many of my pieces uploaded were created when I was a teenager as I am now in my twenties and did not choose a career in art.
The art that I have created in recent has been contributed to charity events to go towards raising money for homeless teenagers in my community or has been graphic design for non-profits. It is unfortunate that I did not have a digital to capture my later works before they were sold but am in touch with their owners and am going to see if they can take photo's of the paintings which were all oil, which I had recently discovered at the time. When I did finally get a digital camera it took poor quality pictures. Bun Rain and Beehive are later works in which I created in 2007.
I am not sure if my technique would be better if I had chosen the path to study art in college instead of Public Will and Policy. I remember taking art classes in High School and getting D's on pieces such as "Days Before You Came and I'm here your Not Alone". This was because my art teacher who happened to not be an artist herself but simply had a degree in art History didn't like my style of art. I don't recall her ever teaching technique, she simply gave assignments. Art is subjective in nature, as humans we all have or own tastes in things just as we do in cuisine, vehicles and politics. I was too frightened to take an art class at my college because I think it's not really legitimate to grade a piece of art unless there is truly a solid criteria for technique. My college did not have objective art teachers. I promised myself that I would never place myself in that position again, where I would have someone belittle a creation of mine simply from lack of taste.

Ironically, although I never took up art as a career (There was a short period right after I left High School when I dabbled as a tattoo apprentice) and became a hobbiest I somehow managed to be showcased and created several art shows locally and was featured nationally in an art show in D.C. I have sold a handful of pieces, and have art hanging in some buildings. I wanted to be an artists when I was a little girl, and I am. Anyone on Deviant is. I just never made a career out of it. I incorporated it into my career pretty seamlisly and tried to incorporate the two as much as possible because wasting creativity is really awful. I will be creating a graphic design section as well to show in place, as this was sometimes my only creative outlet because going to school full time and working didn't allow time to paint, nor sketch.

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Current Residence: Traverse City
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Interests: I am a self proclaimed Super Advocate for foster youth, mentally ill and the homeless population. I
Favourite movie: Velvet Goldmine
Favourite band or musician: Interpol, Devics, VAST
Favourite genre of music: Independent,Indie,Expiremental, Alternative
Favourite artist: Mark Ryden
Favourite poet or writer: Niel Gaimen
Favourite style of art: Dada, Surreal
Operating System: both-prefer Mac
MP3 player of choice: ipod, have a coby too which is much more practical has it also holds 4 G
Favourite game: Grand Chase, Spore
Favourite cartoon character: Chowder, FlapJack, Gir, Squee
Tools of the Trade: Anything that's around, I suck at 3D stuff but use feathers and a lot of glue

Email: shawnimagination@live.com

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~Lussst Jun 25, 2009, 12:46:28 PM

I love how you talked about not wanting someone to grade your art because it isnt objective. That has always been one of my problems with going to school in art, that someone else could tell you whether you were good or not, when in reality if youre a true artist you create art for yourself, and you are the only judge.

However, art is my obsession and I have to have it in all aspects of my life, including school. I just deal with it but being as stubborn as possible and never doing what anyone else says. If a teacher tells me to change when I dont want you, Id rather fail then limit myself.

You should continue your art whenever possible, if its what you want.

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~RagaMuffinInc Jun 27, 2009, 12:56:35 PM

Your'e right, I at one point was going to be an art therapist but realized I was horrible at one on one interactions. I am really passionate about helping people as I was a poor, foster youth who had no resources and was homeless. This inspired me to go into Social Services instead of going to art school which is very competitive. Both careers will have the same result- they pay very little. Right now I am trying to create a face painting side business because I am getting burned bad in my field that I worked my buns off in. I am starting to question what I thought I wanted to do with my life but I still know that I really want to help those in need and I do what I can do feed my creative side but I already receive a degree in Liberal Arts. I don't judge people who pursue degrees in arts, we need them for cartoons, and clothing and make up, car designs and many things that we love. I just knew I would never be good enough to make it to the top and didn't have the energy or confidence, or the finances to compete against other artists for that title or glory.

As for what's going on with Crank. I hope you sue him and get your piece back. I was talking to my fiance and my best friend about it and by now, because of what it's been through, it has a story attached to it. It is so awful and sick, and I get the most awful feeling in my stomach when I think about it but that's what makes it interesting to a potential buyer- that there is this whole ordeal to this piece. It could sell for thousands now ( well it is a bio hazard) I am not sure if you would want to sell it, I know you may be attached to it but you already sold it to him, but it may be tripled in value. It's something to consider, you would have to figure out how to sanitize it but someone out there would pay to own it because of the story behind it. I think too, Crank needs help. He needs to go get treatment, and I hope he gets it, he is a suffering soul. We should pity him. We should take this seriously, this is something someone does that is dangerous this should not be ignored... I hope he gets help.

~Lussst Jun 27, 2009, 8:30:22 PM

Sadly, most of the things that we really need in life pays very little. A fact that never ceases to piss me off, lol. I hope you continue to help people. It is a hard business, no matter how you go about it, and life will always want to get you down and make you stop, but if you can help even one person that makes it all worthwhile. Keep at it, I wish you the best of luck.

As for Skip, I don't think I can get the painting back. It looks like hes going to keep it and not sell it or even give it away in a contest, which makes getting it back practically impossible. I have no grounds for suing him if he doesnt try to sell it or to post it somewhere without giving me credit.

Funny, tho, that he posted it on his facebook (without my name of course, he just calls me a student) and someone said that wow they really liked it, it was so different from his other paintings, how much to buy it? Hah, that made me laugh. He had to admit that he didnt paint it. But again, did not post my name...

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