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 […]

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 […]

These are a few pictures from Timothy’s sketchbook of two girls in elf costumes. He drew these as portrait exercises with pencil from pictures he found on the Internet.

This is a short guitar piece written and played by Jared Barton. Along with playing the guitar and mandolin, Jared enjoys writing music and drawing. Recently, he has also taken up learning the violin. Enjoy! Get Flash to see this player. Right click the link to download the mp3.

Sam Poat was inspired to write this poem based on Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil—a philosophical biography of Martin Heidegger. Sam used quotes from the book and juxtaposed them with his own thoughts. Oh come ye, here, to drink of life far gone and wasted. To taste of images and shadows of things undone. […]

Timothy Krell has been teaching himself 3d for a couple years, and has created these pictures on his path to understand this complex field. When creating images in 3d, one must first model the object, apply textures to it, set up virtual lights to see what was made, and take a picture of it through […]

Lisa Krell, our art teacher, drew these three pictures in 2002. The eagle and the old building were rendered in pencil, but the frog was produced with pen. In these pictures one can see that, even though they are all monochromatic, there is a distinct difference in style from the pencil drawings to the pen […]

Sarah drew these pictures with colored pencil in 2002. Although one commonly thinks of paint when talking about mixing color, a good colored pencil drawing requires mixing as well. This is done by building up different colors over each other to give the desired hue. Sarah’s use of this technique gives her drawings vibrant color […]

Inspired by a technique he saw in an art show, Timothy drew this picture as an experiment using powdered graphite. By sprinkling powdered graphite on the paper and using a brush, he was able to make the wispy background for the butterfly. Using just pencil, it would have been significantly harder and longer to shade […]

Another form of art that can sometimes be overlooked is the art of words. We all enjoy a good story, and a well written one takes just as much skill as a hand painted portrait. Sarah Harding, who has long enjoyed reading and writing stories, wrote this short story relating her experience riding her first […]