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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