Patrick is one of our teen artists in the community. He has excelled at using pen and some of his best works are done in pen. His style is playful and he is always coming up with interesting things to draw. These are different sketches from his sketchbook.

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.

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.

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.

“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.”

Sunrise

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Eastern Sun

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“Sunrise”
“Eastern Sun”

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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“Rain”

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.

Derek is a budding artist in our community and loves to spend time drawing pictures, usually of animals. This is a picture that he drew in his sketchbook of a Siberian Tiger.

This is a portrait that Timothy did during our community retreat in January. He used a special pencil of wood-less graphite and Bristol pen paper to give the picture a smooth look.

This is a poem that Megan wrote as an English assignment depicting a ruinous city on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.