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I am Sylvester Peck Sr.

I am from, Jefferson County.

professionally educated, and I teach, art, through K-12 at Florida and University Development Research School.

And also professional artist.

And I, have exhibited work pretty much, from Miami up to New York.

I'm author and, published a book, the images, the artist, the best topic you and I have about five of the manuscripts that I'm, getting ready to publish With art, it has been lifelong.

I mean, it's as early as I can remember, and that's been three years of age.

I've been doing that.

started exhibiting work in high school, that drawing in that our love for art also led me into teaching, printing and publishing, and many other facets of, of, but I guess just being an artist.

it, I have it's narrow and it's actually wider.

And so if I take this and I extend that outward.

It will compensate and give me that proportion with face to bottom.

There's a German phrase, and I hope I get this right.

It says, the fool is all meaning feeling is all.

Feeling is everything.

And so it's the same way with, with art and with for me, it is at least that thing that is inspiring me that I mean inspiring.

Meaning I'm paying attention to it and I'm listening to it, that that song, that story that I hear, the painting to my left here is about a story.

And that is, the story of a, a young lady who went through trauma, trauma early, and she's living with the that trauma.

And so once I found that story, I heard this story.

Then I tried to take those feelings that that human story elicited, and I tried to reflect that in an artwork.

And for for this particular painting, I believe the eyes would tell the story of what that person is going through.

Girl on a park bench.

Portrait of a girl on a park bench.

And so remember that if you feel like you make a mistake when you're painting, don't worry about it.

Paint over it.

Right.

It's just just going to be paint.

And you keep working that paint out or you keep working on your painting until it's this is until the painting tells you that is finished.

Like when I first came to class, I don't really I'm not really much of a painter or anything like that, but it's something that I actually like to do now.

So it's like I'm very young.

I'm actually pretty decent at it.

I don't suck at it.

These are two interpretations of this of the of soul.

Okay.

And you see, one is probably has a, sort of a spiritual feel to it, and the other ones are more of, an attachment or relationship between two people, my favorite thing here so far is when we got to paint our solo projects, which Coach Peck just told us what to do.

What the concept was he didn't, like, make us do it a certain way, but it was what we wanted to do, and I really enjoyed that, it was.

What do we think soul is?

What is soul to us?

And we got to put it on our paper.

It's on our canvas and we all got to paint it.

Any type of way we wanted to.

You got to probably be like a solo project recently, but I've been stressing about a little bit but it's still fun to do because, like, it's me.

It's something that I can do.

What I want to do with.

You know, my book images is about.

It's just a compilation of work that I produced over the years.

The book itself as, starting with the covered, All right.

Tails, tails.

And so every, every image is in this book, there is a story behind it.

And so the book is designed and laid out in such a way that very little text, because it's designed to, get the viewer to turn the page.

And, well, I just opened the book and I looked at this image here, it's entitled the Violin Player.

And, and my left of the violin player is just a continuous line drawing and there's various techniques in this book for doing different things.

And with continuous line drawing, I always emphasize to students that regardless of what subject you were drawing or what it looks like, as long as there's one continuous line, it will always look good to the viewer.

confidence in yourself.

And that's that's the thing I, always trying to encourage them to be confident.

And having them to feel comfortable enough to share the expression.

Okay.

And that's how art is created, no matter what it is.

To create it, put it out there for public consumption and let other people view your work.

And then you'll you'll find out, like I see it before, the viewer may like it, may not like it, but you've done it.

You've done your job as an artist But I think it's a book that helped me to keep a promise to my, parents.

specifically my father, who who asked me to, well, told me that I can give up anything that I wanted to do in life and a job like what I had in life, but never to stop drawing, because one day it would, provide for me.

I put it on the table for me.