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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Guest post by Diana Kim, WAHS Multicultural Club President and Crozet Public Library Teen Advisory Board officer The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center presents the soil from John Henry James’s lynching at the Crozet Library. The display features a digital presentation next to the display case where people will be able to learn about the history and the lynching of James. The exhibition provides pictures of documents, and guides the people through the events of what happened. According to the Daily Progress, the display case used to hold the statuette of Robert E. Lee; however, it now contains a jar of soil with history. The day James was lynched, a mob of white and black people stopped the train. He was heading back from Staunton, awaiting his charges of criminally assaulting a white woman in Charlottesville. The African Americans were there hoping to prevent the lynching. However, they were unsuccessful. James was lynched on July 12, 1898. To learn more about the lynching, visit the Crozet Library to see the display, or check out the Daily Progress article here. |
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