Jewelry Paintings and Painting Art*

*"Jewelry Paintings and Painting Art" are the top five words, in order, among the artist media found on the Somerville Open Studios site in january 2012

in order to write my own artist statement, i took a census of those artists' statements. here are some findings

this was done with the ruby code in this file. should work for you too



artist names

15.1 average name length, in letters
2.3 average name length, in words
Julie Anne
Jennifer Beth
David
most common names
janiee bareer average name, by length & letter-position

most common media

Photography | Painting | Mixed media | Handcrafted jewelry | Organic abstract | Sculpture

common media words

Jewelry | Paintings | Painting | Art | Abstract | Mixed | Photography | Media | Oil | Sculpture | Drawings | Prints | Acrylic | Silver | Large | Glass | Handmade | Photographs | Collage | Accessories

common statement words

work | art | color | new | create | painting | images | paintings | world | using | make | see | works | use | studio | things | love | natural | design | other | between | life | many | personal | photography | boston | glass | like | light | way | found | jewelry | people | around | artist | visual | working | human | creative | time | open | still | large | including | find | come | somerville | abstract | classes | experience | made | drawing | elements | process | inspired | interested | surface | gallery | always | arts | colors | look | began | different | created | creating | most | enjoy | pieces | being | materials | school | same | objects | no | capture | often | year | hope | subject | custom | home | us

common statement word duos

of the | in the | i am | and the | my work | i have | is a | in my | of my | as a | on the | in a | to the | with the | at the | of color | to create | color and | from the | as well | the world | work is | have been | of a | with a | and i | to be | it is | has been | have a | for me | my paintings | me to | i make | that i | interested in | work in | well as | they are | such as | inspired by | some of | the viewer | i love | the art | on a | my art | my studio | and a | by the | is the | i work | as an | the same | still life | when i | of art | the boston | work i | art and | from a | is an | we are | the work | can be | into the | work with | for the | with my | part of | am a | and my | up in | open studios | i was | that are | range of | to capture | to make | the camera | variety of | to see | new york | are a | look at | a variety | the subject | school of | light and | sense of | one of | i use | the human | you will | world around | for my | painting and | paintings are | i began | from my | i will | i create | interest in | design and | an artist | that is | in addition | a personal | i believe | i also | am interested | images of | love to | and is | world of | as the | new england | in boston | for this | on my | her work | and to | although i | with an | through the | i see | my own | the real | all of | and other | is my | is to | during the | of our | the past | living in | i strive | for a | i enjoy | what i | way to | i do | my photos | using a | seek to

common statement word trios

my work is | as well as | in my work | of my work | i have been | i am a | the world around | of color and | some of my | a variety of | my work i | am interested in | i am interested | as an artist | my paintings are | in addition to | studio in somerville | i strive to | light and shadow | in the world | i seek to | somerville arts council | has been a | i work in | am fascinated by | black and white | somerville open studios | of art and | i love to | goal is to | in the boston | to capture the

common statement word quartets

i am interested in | in my work i | some of my work | the world around us | i believe in the | museum of fine arts | use a variety of | my goal is to | the world around me | i am fascinated by | of art and design

common statement word quintets

i am fascinated by the | come visit my studio and | school of the museum of | i am interested in the | the museum of fine arts | of the museum of fine | have always been interested in | college of art and design | using color and shape to | paintings and works on paper | i have always been interested | to strike a balance between

common statement word sextets

i have always been interested in



i did massage the data a bit so that things make sense and remain interesting. so there