Senior Year
2021-2022
In my final year as an art student at GPFAA, I explored myself through various styles. I dove into my the curious world of diaramas and self portraiture to push myself into the journey ahead.
Junior Year
2020-2021
My Junior year was a crazy one with majority of it being spent at home. With the impact COVID-19, virtual school became a viable and safe options for students like me. Art supplies were limited and contact with others was completely absent. I used this time to explore medias I was unfamiliar with like digital art and watercolor. The pieces below are from my AP Art Portfolio where I focused on the inquiry: What are the origins of Halloween? I went in chronological order from the initial halloween traditions to legends to my interpretation of the relationship between the modern world and this historic holiday. I created a cohesive series of works with similar color scheme and drawing style concerning the origins of Halloween and the traditions within the holiday. Halloween originated from a Celtic holiday called Samhain where locals would dance around large bonfires to ward off evil from their autumn harvest inspiring several of my pieces and so on and so forth.
Sophmore Year
2019-2020
My style pushes the envelope when it comes to traditional art, I really enjoy color and chaos. I want to invoke all kinds of emotions within my viewers to attempt to understand how my brain works. I definitely feel as though my art work reflects how my brain functions, I am al too often lost for words and I find that art can be a form to communicate. I chose these pieces because I truly believe it exemplifies my growth in style and individuality throughout this year. The first piece was my first piece for my ap portfolio, it is much more technical and realistic yet expressive and full of life. This piece I prompted myself to do to further concentrate on the ins and out of the human imagination. For the second piece, it was a class assigned piece following the prompt "she felt relief as she inhaled a breath of the surface air" which had to be mixed media with found objects weaved in it. I interpreted the prompt as some kind of hoarder finally being able to catch a breath after feeling as though suffocated in a heap of meaningless items. This was different for me, adding 3D elements to a 2D piece, I was interested to explore this technique. I used dried rose petals and small objects that I had collected over the years to create a chaotic mess of a piece. I definitely felt as though I got lost into the background and something I could improve was making the girl more of the vocal point. The third piece was a piece i did at home, i was playing with emotion, the idea of suffocating on your own feelings. It's a mixed media piece primarily using prisma colored pencils, pen ink, and acrylic paint, this is one of my very different pieces of anything I've ever made at school and of course there is is always improvement for proportion and technique but playing with extreme emotion definitely has inspired me to continue this style.
