sarahallegra

About me

My name is Sarah.

I am an artist.

Since my earliest days of clutching crayons and scribbling purple horsies with cascading manes, I have had a driving force commanding me to create. And I have done my best to obey.

I see the world in a mythic, symbolic way. Things...

My name is Sarah.

I am an artist.

Since my earliest days of clutching crayons and scribbling purple horsies with cascading manes, I have had a driving force commanding me to create. And I have done my best to obey.

I see the world in a mythic, symbolic way. Things are rarely what, or all, they appear to be. There are hidden meanings in every shadow. This quality comes out in all my work...and it would whether I wished it or not. It is simply how I am.

I drew with pencils for most of my childhood and teenage years...aside from one ill-conceived foray drawing with markers on my bed sheet at age 5. After that, I painted in acrylics and watercolors. And at 16, after I got my first “real” camera, I fell in love with photography.

Today, I am mixing my media to create art which lies somewhere between paintings and photographs...the perfect blend of all my favorite things. And strangely, it is modeling which led me to this most recent artistic expression.

I began modeling at 26. That’s somewhat late in model years, but I found it fun and rewarding nonetheless. However, after a while, I grew tired of always fulfilling other people's visions and never my own. I would often suggest ideas to photographers, but they were rarely interested in them...because they weren’t their own. My frustration grew until it burst out of me and my self portraits were born.

Taking self portraits is, by far, the single most artistically satisfying thing I have ever done. As the sole artist in the entire process, I have full control over it. I know exactly what I want the end result to be, so there are no awkward explanations and no misunderstandings...just my project from start to finish.

I hope you enjoy this glimpse through the lenses with which I view the world.

Information

• Name: Sarah Allegra
• Country: USA
• State: CA
• Joined: August 26, 2010
• Favorite Music: A Perfect Circle, Tool, Pucifer, Brand New, Wintersleep, Emilie Autumn, System Of A Down
• Favorite Movie: The Fountain
• Favorite Book: Deerskin and The Hero And The Crown by Robin McKinley
• Genre: Digital Art, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography Color, Portraits

• Links:
• http://www.SarahAllegra.com/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/artosthebear/
• http://www.facebook.com/artosthebear
• http://www.etsy.com/shop/SarahAllegraArtistry

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