Kara Walker Analysis

Kara walker is a contemporary artist working mainly with black and white silhouettes made of paper. She invokes themes of African American racial identity in the majority of her works (artsy.net). The majority of her works are particularly heavy in meaning and are meant to invoke emotion, some may make you cry or even laugh. I’m also a contemporary artist who works mainly with traditional art such as sketching, inking and then coloring with markers. My themes vary from piece to piece and usually don’t carry much meaning. But some have been extremely sullen or even joyous.
Walker was born in Stockton, California in 1969, and later moved to Atlanta Georgia where she grew up (pbs.org). She was raised by her mother and father who worked as a painter and knew by age three that she wanted to be an artist …show more content…
She also paints and draws but her most known works are the silhouette pieces. My mediums are a mix of several different materials, paints, pencils, pens and markers there’s not a whole lot I don’t use depending on the artwork I’m creating. For her works habits, she has stated in an interview that she has a difficult time sitting still and that goes into her work as well, “I’ve always been a bit restless in the work,” she says. “I have to look this way and that way, just to see what my limitations are, or if they are limitations. Maybe they’re assets” (wsj.com). For myself I tend to work rather quickly when I do work, which you could say is similar to her restlessness. It has become increasingly difficult for me to be motivated to want to create something as I’m usually held back by being afraid of messing it up or I may not even finish the piece if I’m not satisfied with it from the start, my perfectionist mindset gets in the way of my