Rebecca Jantzen

I describe myself as visually impaired and learning disabled. I am a socially engaged artist who loves her art work. I like to be a perfectionist at my drawings for myself. I’m a drawer who works with cartoon images and I like to work on still lifes.

A challenge for me is slowing down in my art work and working on structuring faces. I would like to develop my mixed media sculptures as a goal. An ambition I have is to publish and illustrate children’s stories.

I gear my art work more towards children’s illustration which causes me to use brighter colors in my art work. I love holidays and I like to make cards for special occasions. My art is based on the kind of mood I’m in at that moment. Trace Adkins is a favorite artist whose music I like and he’s cute to me.

I like to draw things that brighten up my spirit and the day; images of peace, love and happiness. When I drew Noah’s Ark the people in the drawing turned out to be similar to myself and my husband. One of the reasons I chose to draw the bee character is because I’m known as “Queen Bee” at NIAD. I try to put myself into my art sometimes. I like to go to different workshops to get more hands on learning and more ideas in my art. I like to use the techniques I learn to create projects on my own.

I like to draw pictures on card stock because it’s stronger. I outline my work with Sharpies to make it stand out more. I like to come up with silly creations and characters.

Sometimes I start with one project and keep building on it. It can evolve and change over time like with my maps, collages and fiber sculptures. I like to use anything and everything in art. To me there’s no limits on what materials can be used for art work. It’s just about having fun with art.