For my Teen's Inspired project I made Q-tip art of Downtown Apex. I was inspired by Yvonne Helene Jacquette's Night View Wing II painting. What inspired me most about this painting is how the artist took a lot of little things and made it into a large and quite detailed painting. The lights from the view of the airplane looked like small little dots which reminded me of using Q-tips to paint pictures. Once I realized that I was going to use Q-tips to paint my picture I just had to figure out what i was going to paint. I wanted to do something in color that would stand out then I thought about how I grew up in apex and I decided to paint one of my favorite childhood memories.
Yvonne Helene Jaquett started painting aerial views when she was on a flight to her parents. Her statement was "It happened by accident, of course. I didn’t ever plan it, I was going to visit my parents who had just moved to California and I was in a plane with watercolors and I started to see that the clouds were amazing when you’re right in them,"