Michaela Lozada

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創建 2022-12-04 (The Best Karen EVER)

December 4, 2022 by Michaela Lozada

Ladies and gentlemen, my amazing, beautiful, talented, and compassionate mother, Karen Maria Lozada!

They don’t make ’em like her anymore.

(I can’t show you today’s sketch since I went and wrote notes for my book all over it, and my book is absolutely classified – haven’t told a soul a thing. Will you forgive me for offering instead a late look at this sketch from last week?)

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創建 2022-11-19 (Vigil por la Virgen)

November 21, 2022 by Michaela Lozada

Sketch from a mass held in recognition of la Virgen de Quinche, a feast day of Mary which is especially beloved by Ecuadorians. This is a very special evening mass for the Hispanic community here in Newark. Painstaking effort is put into arranging a shrine of dolls and flowers and carrying the central doll of la Virgen into the building on the shoulders of four individuals, and in addition to me and the other core group of musicians of this cathedral, an authentic mariachi band performed during the mass.

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創建 2022-11-13 (Empezando Libro Nuevo)

November 13, 2022 by Michaela Lozada

創建 2022-11-13:

創建 2022-11-06:

Still only able to work in one spot, but there’s always another perspective to find.

I messed up today – tripped up a little on “lo bello que es tu amor” and sang “en la pan” (shoulda been “en el pan”). Como yo dijo a mi familia musica, siempre estoy tratando mi mejor. Estoy apriendo, no estoy completida.

Have I mentioned I’m writing a book?

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創建 2022-11-01 [Dia de los Muertos (& End of a Sketchbook!)]

November 2, 2022 by Michaela Lozada

From the late night mass for Dia de los Muertos – and/or “All Saint’s Day” – at St. Patrick’s Pro-Cathedral of beautiful Newark, New Jersey. Can you please try to imagine how much it meant to me to add four photographs of my own Lozadas and Liebeskinds to the ofrenda of our beloved dead, placed at the alter with candles, there to stay for a whole month? I sang my heart to the world for all listening, in Spanish and English, and I listened with my hands onto the last page of this sketchbook.

Please understand – my perspective is the same with all of these recent church sketches because I am on duty singing. I am at a designated position in the upper narthex, sketching madly whenever I am able to share my hands and eyes with both drawing and singing.

They called me angel, said I gave them chills, but what more am I really than a bird in the rafters! God gave me my voice, and there’s much I have yet to learn.

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創建 2022-10-30 (La Luchadora)

October 30, 2022 by Michaela Lozada

Me ama esta mujer. Todos que la conoce se ama. Que Luchadora, que regala, que ama.

Estudio de cincos minutos, hecho hoy, durante nuestra misa.

I love this woman. Everyone who knows her does. What a fighter, what a gift, what love.

It’s a five-minute study, made today, during our mass.

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Artist Statement

My art has always acted as a microphone for my thoughts and observations; through it, I make my voice heard. Through wide-ranging media, such as charcoal portraiture, 2-D and 3-D animation, and oil painting, I create statements on equally widespread themes, from the nobilities of simple living to issues of global concern.

Whenever possible, I use my computer science background to integrate elements of programming and the digital world into my art, making for a very unique portfolio!

Media

I choose media carefully to best complement this process. Charcoals and graphite are used to capture the most fleeting subject material, using quick, sparing strokes to reflect bodies in motion and draw out the evanescence of the image as a whole. For the opposite effect, I often elect to use paints (usually oils) to create a work with multiple depths. Glazes layered carefully on thicker mixes of paint are used to capture the nuances of the personalities I choose to convey. I always try to adapt my knowledge of computer science to my art, mixing traditional art with digital and combining seemingly opposing media.

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