This drawing was created to experiment with drawing techniques and values. I spent way too much time on it for something that was practice, as evident by the dotting. I realized this a week in and therefore didn't have time to fully shade or detail the planet and planetoid.

Val is a part of me who dominates my inner soul. My intention of this art piece was to display how sometimes we want to act or dress in ways that are rejected by society, but despite our desires being slightly anomalistic, we can still be content with them. In this artwork, I showed a girl who enjoys wearing outfits that people can perceive as strange, but she is still euphoric and enjoying her life. Instead of viewing this abnormal side of herself as a miserable burden, she has welcomed it as part of her identity. Val accepted herself and her way of seeing the world, and no matter who discourages her behavior or beliefs, she'll never change who she is in her heart.

While making this piece of art I honestly just kind of stayed focus the whole time and felt like nobody else was around me if thought there was a full classroom around me. I tried putting as much time and patience in this drawing. I feel that this drawing shows my understanding of values and time management because although it may seem like I spent a lot of time on it, I actually was one of the first ones to finish because I felt lost in my art. My art showcases who I really am and how I perceive the world.

This piece was inspired by the content and emotions of a song I love. It is called “Ingydar” by Adrianne Lenker. My goal was to make a piece without the pressure of perfecting it technically or thematically. Rather, I tried to approach it instinctually and just capture my feeling. I gave myself a limited color palette, and tried to address the painting as a whole instead of picking apart the details. Its definitely not my best piece technically, but out of my work it was the most cathartic to paint and my emotions show through the most.

This work is inspired by my interest in underwater life and the role jellyfish play in the ecosystem.

These are three crochet sea creatures I made over the past year. I enjoyed playing with different size yarns, hooks, and patterns. Eventually I came out with these three animals - the turtle, which took the longest and included a mix of crocheting (the body) and sewing (the details), the whale, which I made many times in many different colors and sizes, and the octopus, which was a more recent creation.

My name is Jaeda Todd and a junior. I’m currently in an Art 1 class at St Patrick St Vincent High School. What in inspired me to draw this artwork is that i’m obsessed with the movie Moana. I decided to re-create something from the movie. When i was thinking about it I knew that I had to do the stingray because the grandma is my favorite character.

This piece was influenced by my research into psychogeography, which describes the effect of an environment on the emotions of its inhabitants, as well as my research into early highway planning committees in the US and how destructive their policies were to urban spaces. Personal experience directly shaped my work, as it was an exploration of my relationship with public transit in contrast to my relationship with highway transit and how the two differed. The materials and techniques seen were used to create the feeling of recognition, that you could see or have seen this on a construction site or on a walk through the city. Artists that inspired my work were Guy Debord and Asger Jorn, whose work dealt with mapping spaces through feel during the situationist movement in late 1950s France. Sarah Szes was another artist whose work inspired this piece, specifically her work Blueprint for a Landscape, which focused on what a subway stop represented to the different people passing through.

This piece was made to convey how it feels to have your emotions bottled up inside. Specifically, anger. Years of not being allowed to express any anger leads to struggling to regulate emotions. In this piece, it can be seen that there was an attempt at maintaining composure with the hair tucked behind the ear, however the messiness of the hair portrays clear struggle in staying calm. The hand on the face represents the aching need to scream but choosing to hold it in, as it's gripping the face and not the hair. The white noise that is seen throughout the entire piece is the thoughts that run around inside the mind, angry thoughts and thoughts that are intrusive. (Keep in mind that while this piece may conduct concern towards the artist, worry not as this was made through looking back at past experiences and emotions, so it is inaccurate to their current emotional state, however still representative of them).

Two different styles of cat in one car.

Tutorial portrays an analysis of the different materials and objects the artist uses in her daily life. This “goofy” moment captures her decision to mimic a model’s dynamic poses rather than finishing her homework for her next class. As an artist, Hiranmayi is inspired by the moments of simplicity in life. Her desire to render these somewhat insignificant occasions motivates her to be highly observant of her surroundings. Tutorial (2023) is connected with this theme as it shows that she herself is part of a simple moment. While creating this piece. Hiranmayi greatly focused on the recreation of lighting to enhance the main character moment she felt.

I painted a turtle with a fish and kelp because I really like marine life and turtles are very cool. The hardest part was the rocks and the easiest part was the yellow fish. The turtle shell took a lot of patience because it had a lot of layers. My experience with watercolor overall is that it is very good however it is difficult to make small details because is spreads over the paper.

I decided to draw and color a turtle because I like drawing animals. Also, I chose to draw a sea animal because I have grown to like waterpolo ever since I gained the courage to play waterpolo this year.

The process of this piece is a little complicated, and took caution to prepare the plate and paper for the press. I captured the references on my friend Tula's birthday at a public pool.

I was trying to extend my painting beyond the canvas, my mind ran through idea after idea and finally, lo and behold i settled on the idea of neo-scrapbooking; an idea which, not so subtly, combines ideas of crude jury-rigged art with themes of family and remembrance. The piece is of a traveler embarking on a journey and arriving at "the end of the woods". The traveler "Aeon." is depicted as an old man accompanied by two dogs.

This installation is a result of a period of personal growth. Though the work draws from negative experiences, the act of creation renders those memories still, and unable to fester.

While creating this artwork I attempted to capture the feeling of being forced to fit into a societal label. It's meant to feel incredibly claustrophobic and mildly unsettling. The figure is attempting to cram into a box smaller than themselves, but people aren't meant to be confined to boxes and labels, creating the idea you see before you.

A monochrome digital painting that I did playing off of screenshots of footage from trail cameras. I wanted to make it a bit spooky and paranormal, so I set the scene at night and stuck to the black and white color scheme that is so reminiscent of the camera footage :)

In this piece I displayed a gloomy face covered in countless inescapable hands. I wanted to capture another recent phase with my body changing. I observed old and new photos finding many differences and insecurities that had grown on me. Acne, curly hair and no more smiles. I tried to show a lot of emotion, attitude and curiosity with simple strokes creating detailed hands surrounding an irritated face. In the piece, I wanted the hands to mess with my face; trying to bring me back to my younger self. Small, always joyful and funny.

This art piece is a digital art piece I made for my AP Art Class highlighting the feelings I have about living in the Bay Area. The cost of living here is expensive, and it had a negative impact on my mental health. It felt like everything cost too much to live, but the hospital and funeral costs made it too expensive to die. Both subjects are locking in a frozen waltz, dressed up in excess like court fools. The fool on the left represents how it’s too expensive to live, and the right represents how it’s too expensive to die.