I was in the Virtual Reality lab last year, and Mr. Osborn described A Tech in a way that interested me. I go there and WAHS this year.
I've always done art, but not in a serious way until sophomore year. My mother bought me some watercolor paint and I started with portraits. I didn't have a lot of experience with watercolor and I wasn't happy with my first results. I discovered a technique that made for a more complete look. The color blending was tricky, but I was fiddling around and tried drawing on top of the paint. I wanted to find a method to make clear crisp lines, to highlight the different shades. I drew the shapes with paint, and then outlined them with a black Micron pen. I love Micron pens! They come in a range of sizes and colors and are great for drawing over paint. For the makeup on one of the portraits, I needed a sparkle effect, so I drew circles with a white gel pen on top of the watercolor paint. Then I outlined them with a Micron pen. I like the bright white of the gel pen, it's a pure white. This method allows me to create highlights anywhere, as opposed to using white paint or planning for the paper to be the white element. I had an idea for a digital piece: Checkerboard World. I wasn't sure how I could produce it. I had learned some things in Digital Imaging class with Ms. Burnette, so I looked for an alternative to Photoshop. I ended up downloading PhotoscapeX; it has fewer tools, but it's free. For digital drawings, I use the touchpad on my Macbook Air. I have some of my work up on Depop. It's not an ideal platform, but the tax side of Etsy looked complicated. Etsy seems more for people with a business who are looking to have more reach. After a summer art program in Philadelphia, I decided that I didn't want to go to an art school so I had to find a new career path that included art. I've always been interested in psychology and mental health issues, so when I heard about art therapy as a field, I thought, "This is exactly what I need to do." Macy Baisch is a WAHS/Albemarle Tech senior. In the fall, she'll be studying Art Therapy at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC
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Diana Hale, a mail artist who had an exhibit recently in the Crozet Library, visited the Western Albemarle library to discuss her work. Mail art is a type of art where artists change or add to small items sent to them in the mail and send them to others. For her show at the Crozet Library, Hale sent pieces of vintage homework to mail artists around the world. (See her call for participants here. )The mediums used to create the resulting show were varied and often innovative. The artists used string, home-made stamps, paint, pens, and in one case a tool used to burn small holes in the paper. This was very interesting to me because I had not heard about mail art before and because it was very interesting to see all of the different mediums used to create the art. Rosie Herrmann While I am neither talented nor knowledgeable in the visual arts, I am fascinated by the idea of MAIL art, especially because it is proven to actually work well. I love drawing parallels with music, and I think this is one of those rare areas where music was ahead of art: musicians, in recording covers of other musicians' songs, have for a long time had a way of putting their own personal touch on an artist's piece. But this kind of idea of contributing art, especially on something already made (like the science experiment pages), seems to be a relatively new and exciting equivalent for the visual arts (thanks, I suppose, to the internet and globalization).
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