Hayley Limbach Artist Interview

Artist Interview Freshman art major Hayley Limbach was a pleasure to interview. I sat down with her one evening to talk about her inspirations, ideas and way of making art. She is very passionate about art and shows her love for life through her art work. Her artistic talents do not stop with one medium, she enjoys making a great variety of projects, although many consist of mostly drawing and coloring with pencils. Her current masterpiece, as I like to call it, is a memory book for her high school boyfriend who attends a different university. She is drawing and coloring on a blank page, hard cover book, images of them all the way back to the very beginning when they first met. She is doing all these based of her memory, which means the picture will depict a big idea on each page rather than having accurate details. The memory book is in more of a comic book style, so the images are cartoon-like and the words, if any, are inside of shapes and
She has chosen a theme for most of her art work and usually searches for things that have to do with it. The theme of life and love means everything having do to with living and loving. Hayley believes the base of everything is love and without it, our earth wouldn’t not go live, so she incorporates it in her art. She really loves flowers and usually uses flowers in her art work. To Hayley, flowers are very beautiful and represent life, but like everything that is beautiful they come to an end flowers die). When she has a topic she doesn’t know much about she usually does research on it to get more information and have a more details to put in her work. To improve her craftsmanship she practices a lot. Hayley strongly believe in the saying “practice makes perfect” and she will re-draw thing over and over until she feels like they look good. She was able to get a lot of practice in school when she had projects for her art