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My name official name is Heidi Barton-Jacobs. I know, I know, hyphenated, of all psuedo-neo-feminist things to pull on people. Eh! Get over it. It's my laboriously long signature, not yours, and my other half, Ed "The Count" Jacobs likes it just fine. I'm from northern California, in a quaint little artsty town, next to a slightly larger little rednecky town. Nothing wrong with rednecks, since my dad is the only full blooded redneck ever to hail from Long Beach, California. Yet, I digress. That does make me half redneck, OH THE HORROR. I grew up out in the country with tons of animals, a crazy family, with neither enough closet space for a serious clothing/shoe/make-up fetish, nor the budget. I'd always been a compulsive drawer. I hated art class because I always felt it was to restrictive. It's a little tough to find your muse drawing still lifes of sea
shells.
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Yet I always needed to be drawing something. Anything. I went to community college forever, having changed my major from Interior Design, to Art Education, to Art History, to Fine Arts, and finally Graphic Design. Thankfully, my extralong stint gave me the technical training I needed to make my art a little more polished. I went to CSU Sacramento for a while, as a graphic design major, and I absolutely loved every gut-wrenchingly, stressful, evil, beautiful moment of it. It's not as easy of a major as I assumed. Queen Slacker Mac Lazy following her Artistic Muse actually had to put her brain to use, as well as time management and organizational skills. I enjoyed it though, and had a good sense that it might be nice to have another creative outlet, especially one that has a slightly better income potential. Top Ramen has prevented many a starving artist from hunger pains, however, given a better opportunity...I got burnt out though, and am taking a hiatus/leave of absence/sabattical from Sac State, at least until next
fall.
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