Senior Signature Piece

At my high school every senior in AP Studio Art was required to make a signature piece that represented them as an artist. The pieces were then hung up in the school hallway by the main office. To me this piece meant a lot to me because it was my chance to leave my mark on the school before I graduated. I wanted to use watercolor in my piece because I wanted it to be very airy and faded out. One of my favorite concentration pieces of the school year was when I did a zentangle/mandela style piece and I wanted to repeat that approach to my art. I think that piece was a major standout in my pieces that year and it was something unique to my art that the rest of the class did not use in their art. I wanted to have some sort of symbolic figure to represent me in my work so I decided to draw a fox in my work because I felt like it was similar to me. In the meanings of a fox as a spirit animal, a fox can represent being well rounded and cunning. For me as an artist, I am not specialized in one specific medium and I consider myself a well rounded artist. I am familiar with a number of mediums and like to learn more about them as I use them. The fox is positioned to be climbing up a pile of rocks and that symbolizes me growing and learning more about the world around me. 

School Murals

At my high school I was a member of the National Art Honor Society and I had the opportunity to hold fundraisers and create murals around my school. At my time in the Art NAH I created two murals to promote school spirit and to have art outside the art room.

Mural One:

The first mural that I created was with the intention to promote the new school crest because we modified our school's mascot. There are stairs with motivational words to symbolize the tools we need to become good students that build up to students moving on to higher education. It also represents what it means to be a Conard Chieftain. The mural was made in our school colors to promote school spirit. 

Mural Two: 

This mural was done on a smaller scale than the mural above. The school installed fire sprinklers in place of having fire estinguishers around the school. Around the school there were now many empty spots where fire extinguishers were placed but the National Honors Society decided to paint the empty spaces and make them "Mystery Spaces." The concept of these mystery spaces was to bring art outside the art room and have art be present all around the school. My piece was of a city scene and all the windows glowing at night time. I was also an active member in the music department in my high Schoo land we sang this one song about finding your place in the city and I wanted to incorporate that in my mini mural because my location was right in front of the music rooms. 

Unleashing The Beast

In this concentration piece I wanted to focus on improving on my figure drawing skills. So far into the year I mainly drew female dancers and I wanted to show some variety in my work so I decided to paint a male dancer and challenge myself as an artist. In this piece I used cake water color as my medium. I also really enjoy drawing and painting animals so I wanted to incorporate that interest into my artwork. I decided to paint a tiger to symbolize a dancer letting go and putting their emotions into their craft. I wanted to portray a dancer going back to their most basic instincts. It relates to a dancers raw talent and letting go in their dancing.

Dance: A Universal Language

This piece is titled Dance: A Universal Language. This is probably one of my favorite pieces from my senior year art show because to me personally it showed a lot of improvement in my artwork in comparison to whenI first started that year. the background of the piece is the word dance in 15+ languages including Spanish, Chinese, French, English, Japanese, etc. My concentration for my AP Studio Art was dancers and most of the time I would be doing a full figure drawing and I wanted to try to switch up my interpretation of m theme. I decided to just focus on the legs of the dancers in great detail rather than do a piece with the full figure but more generalized. I wanted to incorporate my interests into this piece and I love to learn languages. I have learned two foreign languages and I want to learn more in the future. This is the end product of combining three interests of mine: dance, art and languages. 

Black and White Charcoal Piece

This is my third concentration piece for my AP Studio art class so far. It is two dancers drawn in black and white charcoal pencil. Fun fact: look for a hidden giraffe within the woodgrain of the background!!

Part 1 First Concentration Piece

Here is part of one of my concentration pieces focusing on dancers in their element. I decided to choose this concentration idea because of the unique positions and shapes dancers can make with their bodies. I am also not good at figure drawing so I wanted to challange myself to take on that challange and practice as much as possible to try to improve my work as an art student.

This piece was to represent aerial dance with silk. The other half of this dyptic piece is a classical pointe dancer drawn with more cool tones also created in oil pastel. 

First sketchbook: AP Studio Art