Summer; the art of sleeping, eating, and for some, creating masterpieces.
Mia Evans lives in this artistic bubble of the world, enjoying her summer by spending time depicting people in portraits. Inspiration striking from both reality and online, along with, “Some really good movies I watched this summer, shows too, and this sounds weird, but I guess music too?” Hesitation laced her statement as she explained, “Sometimes I like to play music and then I just draw and see what comes out.”
During the summer, she specifically went to create a mural in her room, using her wall as a blank canvas to be filled with her imagination. What came from it was an aqueous scene depicting a school of fish, along a portrait of a woman with ocean blue hair, staring into nothing.
While the mural became an ongoing project in the summer, her typical projects are a bit different, composed of “short sketches that don’t take more than a few hours, but I guess I did some longer graphite drawings that took a week or two because of breaks.” With time to study anatomy and work on facial expressions, she began to brave the world of color theory, (a hard subject for her to breach), stating, “Color theory is scary.”
Kate Thomas’ use of mediums ranges from paint, to thread, to beads, embroidering especially coming out as a yearly habit of representing her theatrical shows from the prior year through a single-threaded image on her school bag, such as a depiction of her recent show Sense and Sensibility represented through a coquettish, pink bow.
Ellie Crouch feels a strong connection to Greek mythology, which is why it takes up most of her influence in art. Greek gods and goddesses especially inspire the pieces she creates. The summer introduced the new component, Hades, a video game based on Greek mythology, “came out with its sequel which had a ton of new drama and story to it which I was like ‘oh my god what’s happening’ and ‘where are my favorite characters?!’”
Crouch plans to continue all her forms of art as she starts her sophomore year. While an art class did not have room to fit her schedule, with her “free and open schedule without the stress of AP classes and a ton of procrastination, I’m hoping my art block will be less this year so I can focus on doing the things I love!”
Tashyka Zundel always loves to stretch her ability within her artistic self, challenging her summer self “to be more creative with colors in my drawings and make my old clothes more interesting by altering them to my liking.”
Sewing and drawing gave Zundel a relaxing summer, allowing her to practice something she loved while creating projects that made her content.
In this upcoming school year, many artists plan to continue challenging and working themselves to get more comfortable with their artistic talent, creating results that lead to their own delight. Zundel hopes to branch out with mediums, and “improve my skill in things I already know. Finally learning how to use a sewing machine, for one.”