Hey y’all! So this week we have our second featured
guest/artist here at the Artistry Corner. I am so blessed and so honored to
introduce you to an incredible young artist as well as one of my best friends and brothers,
Aaron Beitia!
Check out his work & more about him below…
This Week's Featured Artist...
~Artist~
Aaron Beitia
A Bay Area Native and recent 4th year at Johnson
C. Smith University in North Carolina, Aaron is an amazing artist with an
intense love for life and every different type of art you can think of. Ranging
from dance to poetry, this young man has a variety of artistic talents and is a
full blown artist in his own right. Ambitious, amiable, and strong-willed,
Aaron is prepared to take the artistic world by storm with talks of a possible
clothing line as well as his most recent endeavor in being a part of a dope poetry
organization on his campus, known as the Black Ink Monks. Despite his ever busy
life and the various endeavors he finds himself immersed in, he always manages
to make time for his art and is hardly without pad and pencil. Please welcome
to the Corner, Aaron Beitia…
Q&A
1. When did you start drawing?
“I started drawing at 9 years old, my inspiration came from
my cousin putting on Japanese anime, and from that day on I’ve just been
drawing, so I kind of fell in love with it.”
2. What exactly makes you draw?
“Inspiration and whoever I came in contact with. I believe
that there’s this chemistry theory that I really feel that when you come in
contact with people you take something from everybody. It may not be
physically, but you always take a piece of them with you and a piece of you
goes with them.”
3. What inspires you to draw?
“Peace and happiness, it’s as simple as that.”
4. How do you come up with your concepts for
your pieces?
“I definitely do research based on how I’m feeling. I will
definitely just go research art and different types of artists of the year,
see, you know, what they do, how they do it, what mediums they use, and then I’ll
go ahead and do my own research based off, you know, sketches, or designs I
come up with, then I’ll go ahead and do some ‘thumbnailing’ and recreating
designs and then making my concepts based off of that.”
5. What is your favorite thing to draw?
A: “Trees” Me: “You talkin’ bout weed?” *LAUGHS* A: “Naw, I’m
talkin’ bout real trees, the trees that are outside.”
6. Who inspires you in general?
“My mom’s my biggest inspiration, but just being able to
get up every day, knowing that I’ve been blessed to have another day that’s my
biggest inspiration and that’s why I feel that I need to create and produce art
for the world because every day’s not guaranteed, but what you do have and the
time you do have you can definitely use to inspire.”
7. 5 facts about you?
1- I speak a little bit of Japanese
2- I love to travel
3- I love fruit
4- I love everything Japanese
5- I love nature
8. Ways to connect with you?
IG: inexplicably_cali
Twitter: @hellapeezdoe
Check out
some of his work and their descriptions below…
The Sight (Beauty)
•
The inspiration of this composition derived from the love and care of my
mother, the sight of the first woman I ever fell in love with despite her
hardships she remained beautiful, peaceful, and humble. The use of cool and
warm colors speaks to the emotions felt within our relationship, the sight of
her crying never broke me or her spirit which is so beautiful words can't
describe.
The
medium of this composition is paint, pastel, sharpie, and charcoal.
Design by Nature
• This
composition was influenced by the black and white views of how society depicts
nature. From spring to fall and I asked myself "what would the world be
without sound?" So I created this piece as I thought about my favorite Bob
Marley quote, "one good thing about music is when it hits you, you feel no
pain." My mediums of choice were collage, sharpie, pastel, flowers, and Styrofoam.
Revolución de la evolución
• This
composition was inspired by the African influence in Latin American countries.
My country of choice was Puerto Rico because I am of mixed ethnicities. I used
the white lotus to symbolize the fertility of women, and out of the white lotus
grew three beautiful flowers, a Puerto Rican woman, an Afro-Puerto Rican woman,
and an African woman. Together these three women create the silhouette of the
continent of Africa. The reason why the Puerto Rican woman is at the back head
of Africa is because that's where the slaves were taken during the time of
Atlantic slave trade, next you have the Afro-Puerto Rican woman at the crown of
Africa to represent the new generation as well as the heart in the stem to
represent the life and mix of cultures. Lastly, we have the African woman to
represent the nose and forefront of African because it all started with mother
Africa. As you look to the background of the picture you see the Puerto Rican
flag the red stripes of the flag play a very significant part because where the
Puerto Rican woman is the stripe behind her is the continent of Puerto Rico,
and the Afro- Puerto Rican woman has the continents of Africa and Puerto Rico,
and finally you have the African woman and the flipped continent of Africa
behind her. Finally as you look at the top of the composition you see the star
gripped by the revolution hand symbolizing the struggle and fight for rights,
morals and citizenship. Both countries are still fighting to be recognized,
Puerto Rico because they are a common wealth and have no right to vote and
Africa because it's the motherland but it is still a third world country. My
medium of choice was sharpie markers.
The Journey
• The
inspiration for this piece came from the influence I personally wanted everyone
to feel when looking at this composition. Starting from the bottom there is a
gate with a black and white lock on it, but the lock is open to symbolize that
you’ve always had, the key to your potential.
Next
is the map of the world because you have to take your own journey into the
world to find out who you are as a person. This takes us to the mind, where you
are your biggest critic and the battle of the minds the only thing stopping
your from your success is you (that's why there's two ships fighting amongst
each other over the island and that island can be interpreted as the American
dream, success, or whatever your heart desires). Lastly, the face well there is
no face because this is a representation of every human being who hasn't looked
into the mirror yet or hasn’t found out who they truly are. Everything begins
with self so look in the mirror. My mediums of choice were sharpie markers.
Heart Surgery
The
inspiration behind this composition was very blurry at first because I used
stippling or pointism. The use of dots to create a composition is truly amazing
and you have to be quite skilled but it is not impossible. The journey of
learning this style was very much so heart surgery in and of itself because it
requires patience and you cannot rush it or it will not come out how you want
it to. I grew as an artist but I learned something about myself.... What's life
worth living for if you don't have a passion or love for something? This
composition is deeper than what you see and much more than what meets the eye,
you have to feel it, think it, and be it. The mediums of choice were sharpie
markers.
Hope you
enjoy this week's feature, stay tuned for our next artist spot, until next time
beautiful people...
Peace
& Positivity,
Dij :)
