This artwork displays the sensation of burnout, more specifically academic burnout.

My artwork was developed with acrylic paints and a canvas.

In art class earlier this year I had to construct a mask using a variety of different textures and patterns.

When I’m making art I like to envision my idea and bring it to life, no matter how long it takes me.

This piece was meant to reflect the bittersweet feeling of change.

Over the course of around 25 hours, I drew “Winter Kiss” with soft pastel sticks and pastel pencils on 12x16” Pastel mat paper.

This piece is titled, "Speedpaint". I have never used Procreate before and for the Creative Youth Awards, I wanted to try out a new digital art program.

This piece was inspired by Hongya Dong in Chongqing China and its amazing architecture and atmosphere.

I grew up hearing “The eye is the window to your soul” and people would say that they knew who people are and how they felt just by looking into a person’s eye.

I call the piece 'Acquainting'. I'm a true hopeless romantic and have loved horses my whole life, so I wanted to make a piece of two horses just being cute and checking each other out.

Rough And Ready is a very small town in Northern California.

My artwork is a 3 dimensional, functional, hollowed out cat sculpture depicting the joy I get when I see a cat.

In this piece, I explored the theme of duality and the complexity of human relationships.

My art work called blooming star is a color pencil piece that represents how I was feeling very bright that day.

This photo is a double exposure from two film photos, one of which I burned the edge of.

This piece of artwork is a transformation project. I chose this animal and object because for one, an elephant is my favorite animal and the Eiffel tower has such an amazing historical significance to it.

Using only watercolor, I hope to be able to capture the feeling of loneliness.

My artwork is called “Dreamlike summer”.

This piece is about the experience of never truly feeling like you belong somewhere- whether that be in a social situation or a particular setting.

This piece is an expression of my emotions and how they all collide in my everyday life.