Virtual Art Show 2020

2020

VISUAL ART EXHIBITION The Virtual Edition

2020

VISUAL ART EXHIBITION The Virtual Edition

table of contents AP Studio Art .

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Photography Editor

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Honors Art

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Art One & Two

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Digital Art

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Anne Blackburn, HS Visual Art Instructor Nancy Nichols, HS Digital Art Instructor

As students handle materials and progress through the artistic process, they experience in a first-hand, perceptible manner how God is likewise shaping the material of their heart and mind, creating a one-ofa-kind masterpiece fit for His service and glory.

“But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.”

Isaiah 64:8 “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. ” Ephesians 2:10

BRANDON DUHAIME Senior | AP Studio Art A Prelude to Brandon’s Gallery “When it comes to painting a portrait, a landscape, or an extreme abstract work, let’s remember the nature of creation itself. God did not make every tree in the shape of a cross. He could have, but He didn’t. There is a riotous creativity in God’s creation – every possible form. And the more you look at the trees and walk through the woods, the more you see that riotous creativity. I think Christian artists have that freedom as well, to express their imagination in a manner which soars beyond the stars.”

Dennis Haack Covenant Theological Seminary St. Louis, MO

Brandon’s Artist’s Statement This year in AP Visual Art, I had the goal of accomplishing a series of pieces reflecting extreme abstraction while representing normal experiences. I tested myself through the oddities that I created by using foreign materials and mediums, and through the learning process I reached new heights with my expanse of knowledge. The most significant part of the entire process was that I had fun during my last year of high school art, taking advantage of what opportunities were before me in AP level art. These pieces reflect a solidification in the direction that I want my art to go, and that is exactly what I hoped to achieve.

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What Next Friend

Circus Act

Charcoal, watercolor pencil, gouache

Ink monotype

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Weights And Such Ink, gouache, graphite

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Tie Till I Die Ink and gouache

Forest Fire Ink monotype

Face In The Sky Gouache 4

Some Words from Visual Art Instructor, Anne Blackburn For the past three years, I have watched Brandon work through ideas and emotions in his work, using such contemporary approaches as one might see in major art schools such as Rhode Island School of Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and others. Indeed, Brandon works conceptually. His influences include artists such as Shel Silverstein and Francis Bacon, and ideas gleaned from Abstract Expressionism. He primarily works in gouache and ink, employing various mark-making techniques usually reserved for printmaking.

Late Night Hours Monotype on canvas

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LAUREN BINGHAM Senior | PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR, YEARBOOK

Friday Night Lights Digital Photograph This photo shows nothing but grit and intensity.

Just moments before kickoff, this Legacy Eagle gets ready to fight for a win.

A Peruvian Afternoon Digital Photograph Slow, sunny days call for one easy-going afternoon for this particular Peruvian girl. It seems as if her view goes on forever, village after village. I always wish I could go back and talk to that little girl on that one, slow, sunny, Peru afternoon!

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Cusco Digital Photograph The mountains in Peru are like no other. How fascinating is it that, while others see this as a once-in-a-lifetime thing to see and experience, it is a village and a home to those residing in this valley?

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Colorado Sunrise Digital Photograph

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Waking up at 4:30 in the morning was nothing but difficult. However, hiking to the very top of a mountain to see this made it all worth it. The Lord shows Himself in marvelous ways, and I am forever thankful for that.

Eagle Nation Digital Photograph Friday night lights and eagle fans cheering on the boys will forever be missed. The atmosphere, the friendships made, and the joy that was spread is like no other.

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EVA BICKEL Senior | honors Studio Art Flower Eyes Colored Pencil on Paper 22x30 For this piece I used watercolor pencils and gauche as my mediums. I used the pencils to carefully place colors and sketch and then I used the gouache to make any colors pop.

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Butterphant Oil on Canvas 18x25 This piece is an oil painting of an elephant merging with a butterfly. I used the contrast of the blue and orange to make the wings pop against the cool background.

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Geodes Gouache, paper, acrylic on foam 20x20 This is a collage of geodes created using a printmaking technique called watercolor monotype.

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AUNIE SLYMAN Senior | honors Studio Art

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Belieze Street Watercolor 15x22 This piece is different than what I would typically like to do, in the sense that it is very exact and architectural. I wanted to do something in that fashion, as what I do is typically freehanded, shows lots of movement, and leaves room for mistakes. In this piece, however, I challenged myself in the rigid style using rulers and measurements. This was a picture I took that I portrayed almost exactly in my watercolor painting using warm colors.

Beauty Watercolor 15x15 This piece was one of my first few monotype attempts. There are a lot of things I would do differently, however this piece does portray what I meant to when I created it. The idea of “beauty” comes from flowers being the girl’s jewelry and adornment, as in Scripture it talks about not adorning yourselves with jewelry (as prostitutes in that time would). Adornment in flowers is something that doesn’t tarnish, but is a picture of life and beauty.

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Freedom Watercolor and ink 15x22 This is a piece done in watercolors and all warm tones. The inspiration for this piece was from the lyrics of one of my favorite worship songs. It says “I put off all my heaviness and put on a garment of praise.�

In this I just imagined the most freeing feeling and we as humans express that through dancing. The use of watercolor plays into the freedom, lightness, and vibrance I wanted to portray.

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KATY CROOKS junior | honors Studio Art Louis (Far Left) Digital Art 15x22 This is a piece that I decided to work on in Procreate on my IPad Pro. The art is the first in a series of abstraction, where I drew my cat Louis, who is really crazy.

Abstraction of Louis Digital Art 15x22 This was the final part of my 5 Piece series where I used to procreate to abstract a drawing of my cat, Louis. The abstraction is supposed to represent Louis’ wild personality.

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Buzzing Oil on canvas 18x24 This is an oil painting on canvas of a woman slowly transformed to have a beehive on her head. I chose tho use a beehive to kind of do a play on words since “beehive� is a type of hairstyle.

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JACOB PARKS junior | honors Studio Art

Morph White chalk, pastel on paper 22x22 This piece expresses a progression of metamorphosis in a vase. Using a white chalk pencil to create the vase itself and a red and blue chalk to create some color in the piece.

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Love Graphite on paper 15x22 This piece visually expresses different forms of communication in the English language. Using a graphite pencil, it connects with the viewer to a more deep and personal level.

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BRYNN WARREN sophomore | honors Studio Art Gourds Gouache, paper, acrylic on foam Young American Talent Finalist With this piece I focused on color arrangement and experimented with collage.

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Ring Pop Oil on Canvas 16x20 With this piece I tried to take a small object and fill the canvas with it, making the viewer feel small in comparison. I also wanted to make the blue stand out by making the background a somewhat similar color to the red.

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Blueberries Oil on Canvas 18x24 With this piece I tried to create a wide range of values, focusing on one specific color. My goal was to work on painting realistically and learning how to add depth.

“GE hires a lot of engineers. We want young people who can do more than add up a string of numbers and write a coherent sentence.

They must be able to solve problems, communicate ideas, and be sensitive to the world around them. Participation in the arts is one of the best ways to develop these abilities.�

Clifford V. Smith President General Electric Foundation

ART ONE

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selected works

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Katie Cortese • 10th Grade Back of Night Watercolor Monotype

Kennedy Dismore 10th Grade Savannah-Shaye Digital Art

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Eric Ericson 9th Grade Strawberry Bliss Oil Pastel

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Trinity Funk 10th Grade Collage, study Paint chips on paper

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Presley-Kate Pittard • 9th Grade Living Like Livy Digital Photography 29

Cortlyn Plunk • 9th Grade Limbo Digital Art (Completed in Digital Art class) 30

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Joseph Shultz • 11th Grade Colors of the Wind Oil on canvas

Nancy Nemeh • 10th Grade At the Beach Pastel on sanded paper

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Carlisle Noble • 9th Grade Space Playground White chalk and pastel on laid paper

Erica Papp 10th Grade Le Debut D’une Ballerine Colored pencil on paper

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MacKenzie Rideout • 9th Grade Pile of Pops Pastel on Sanded Card

Audrey Wood • 9th Grade A View From Legacy Silver gelatin print negative from homemade pinhole camera

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“...there is only this kernel, Christ — who, from the point of view of art, seems superior to me — at any rate something other — than Greek, Indian, Egyptian, Persian antiquity, which went so far.

Now I say it again — this Christ is more of an artist than the artists.”

Vincent van Gogh In a letter dated June 27, 1888 to Emile Bernard, a post-impressionist painter.

DIGITAL ART

Ava Anderson • 9th Grade Gradients of Nature

Nash Blais • 9th Grade Cross of Light 38

Claire Cleveland 11th Grade A Quiet Place

Sean Lawley 10th Grade Tesla Truck

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Jonah Petty 12th Grade Elements of Art

Austin Porter 9th Grade Scroll of Poison

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Dylan Rogers 9th Grade Angels and Dragons

Sydney York 11th Grade Pyramids of Egypt

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Ashton Young 10th Grade Home Still Life

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“Lord, make me see your glory in every place. Amen.”

Michelangelo • 1475-1564 his prayer for the Sistine Chapel