Here is a collection of artwork produced by our community members. “Observing and enjoying art gives deeper meaning to our love of God and God’s creation, humanity.” Quote by Franky Schaeffer
Renee is one of our younger artists in the community. She enjoys drawing as well as painting. These are some pictures of a ceramic Candy Shop that she painted earlier in the year. One special thing to pay attention to while looking at these pictures, besides the excellent coloring, is the way that she painted the details. Absolutely superb!
In the Fourth Quarter of the 2006-2007 school year, the Art Class students were assigned to create Christian symbols for their project. Megan chose to create six tiles, one for a specific season on the Christian calendar: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Holy Week, Easter and Ordinal Time; which is the Season after Pentecost. The process for these sculptures involved several steps: First, Megan drew out here plans on graph paper, then she transcribed the image onto the sculpty. Each section of the sculpture is a different layer of sculpty. For example: the base is one layer, the background is another layer, and each continuing layer of the foreground is a separate layer.
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In the Fourth Quarter of the 2006-2007 school, the Art Class was assigned to do sculpture. The first assignment was to create a Christian symbol. The second sculpture assigned could be whatever the student desired to sculpt. Brittany’s first sculpture was depicting Matthew 18:20 “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them.” The second sculpture was of a Great Horned Owl.
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These are two watercolors that Megan did in the Second Quarter of Art Class this year. One is of a ruin by the ocean and the other is of a castle in Germany. The water-coloring process involves first drawing the picture and then laying down a very light coat of paint (usually yellow) called a wash. After drying, the next layer of paint is laid down, and so on, with the darkest parts being painted last. These painting took Megan approximately two hours to complete each one.
We have two new pieces by Jared for you this time! He titled the first “Sunrise” and the second “Eastern Sun”. Here are some thoughts he had on the creation of “Eastern Sun”.
“The minor key with half step intervals where we don’t normally hear them in western music gives the exotic feel. I chose a more ethnic drum, the clay drum, to give a pressure to the slow guitar work. I picture a sun baked day sitting in an arid landscape under a bare tree for shade. The slowness of the guitar gives the feel of the oppression of the heat.”
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Here is another guitar piece by Jared. He has been having a lot of fun with his music lately, and we will be posting more of his work over the next week or two. This one is titled “Rain”. He used a double filter effect and the bending of the pitch to create the ethereal feel. The technical use of the hammer on pull off creates the rhythmic momentum.
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This is a poem that Brittany wrote as a tenth grade English Literature assignment. The assignment was to write a poem that expressed a Christian view of death.
I heard the voice of God say,
I will come to take thee home today.
You shall be with me,
And you shall be free.
I saw the things of the world,
Slowly slip away.
Dwarfed by a bright, shining shore,
And the dawning of a new day.
I looked beyond the grave,
And the cold, hard stone,
And saw a shining city
And on a silver throne,
I saw my Father coming towards me,
Coming to take me home.
So do not cry for days past,
Or things beyond control,
For we will meet again at last,
On that celestial shore.
-Brittany Kobus
