Art Students Display Creativity

Her piece was inspired by the colors of Romeo and Juliet, and it won 3rd place in an art contest in the Piedmont Orchestra. “The thing I love most about art is that it has no limits. There are infinite possibilities and every piece gives you a look into how other people see the world,” said Legget.

She created a notan piece which is a Japanese art concept of using positive and negative shapes to create a balanced composition. Royal said, at the time of creating the piece, she wished to be at the beach and channeled this into her art. She said that her favorite thing about art is “that you can tell a story without being direct about it. 

Her piece was inspired by a prompt which asked her to create a symbolic self-portrait using only her silhouette and symbols that depict who she is or things about herself. Some of the details she included were the pages floating in the drawing, portraying her love for reading and writing, as well as the venus symbol, which represented feminism. Brown commented on the piece, saying, “I loved her c...

For Steenfott’s piece, she was asked to use pictures to tell a story about herself. Brown said she thought Steenfott did a great job in expressing herself through the pictures. “I could tell from her pictures many things about her without having to ask her what they meant,” said Brown. When asked what she loves most about art, Steenfott said she loved “the start to finish transformation of a s...

Her piece was created in art class when she was asked to incorporate an origami bird into a still-life drawing using shading techniques with charcoal for a 3D effect. “I felt that Hope did a very nice job using her space and making her objects look 3-D,” said Brown. Campbell said she loves the accomplished feeling she gets when finishing an art piece. “Even better is when you get praised for you...

Grady’s art piece was inspired by Nigerian-American painter Kehinde Wiley who is known for his detailed paintings of African-Americans on top of colorful, bold backgrounds or patterns. For the subject of the piece, Grady chose to draw New Zealand singer Lorde because she was inspired by her music. “I thought Maggie did an excellent job of balancing both the foreground and background without taking a...

Shuler was asked to draw flowers using contour lines, which is a technique where an artist essentially uses lines to draw an “outline” of a subject. Brown complimented Shuler on her work, saying, “I thought Kaylee did a great job of drawing big, filling her picture space, and balancing the colors she used.”