Art Co-Op Interview for Artist of the Month: Lexi Bonner
1. What inspires you to create your general work?
Everything, ideas from sitting in school, to seeing other people’s work inspires me to do something different.
2. When did you realize you had a passion to create?
I have always been doing art, since I could hold a pencil.
3. Who is an artist you look up to?
No one famous necessarily inspires me, mainly my cousin. I look up to musicians more than artists.
4. When do you get flooded with ideas?
Recently, every other year I have a mind block. For all my projects I won’t know my theme, but then this year I have non stop ideas. I like working off of a theme someone, Mrs. Kane, gives me.
5. What medium do you feel most comfortable working with?
The computer, Photoshop, I like charcoal, and lead pencils and pens.
6. What do you like to call your art? (Style? Technique?)
A little bit of everything, realistic, anime, cartooning, whatever I feel like doing at the time, logo design and word art sort of things. It’s not just one thing, it’s me.
7. Since there is so little creativity in Boiling Springs, how do you feel being one of the most artistic people in the school, how has that helped you or secluded you?
I don’t feel like I connect with a lot of people because most of the people I talk to aren’t really here. Even though most people know me because I’m artistic, they know my name, but I don’t know them. I don’t know how many people really know me.
8. What has the BSHS Art Department done to help you progress as an artist?
Introduced me to Photoshop, I hated it at first because I didn’t know how to do it and it was boring tutorials, but now it has really helped me a lot. I like being able to experiment with things. I didn’t work on art a lot at home, but this year I’ve started more because I don’t really think about it until I’m given a project, so I try and take a lot of art classes.
