Progressive Drawings by Helen Yu

Progressive Drawings

Helen Yu

A prominent idiosyncratic style is what is lacking the most in this exhibition, but this showcase of my artworks definitely presents development in my artistic technique throughout the years. My passion for art sprouted at a young age. As I mature in my ceaseless artistic training, there are challenges faced, accomplishments made, and audiences pleased. Simultaneously, the individualistic style is gradually being discovered.

Visit the Point Gallery between April 1st and 15th on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Friday's at lunch to see the full exhibition of Helen's work.

Skies By Angel Gu

Skies have different personalities which means that skies change the way they look as time passes. Angel takes this series of pictures representing the color changing during different time periods and different seasons. As you can see these skies are perfectly represented in many tones and color, each photo symbolizing a different emotion. You could drown in this scenery.

Angel says that she would like to present a comparison between something changing and somethings that don't change as time passes. Using the sky as subject is a great way to show this. Although the sky has different moods, it is always young and active. But we are gradually getting bigger, and our parents are getting older.

By the changing of sun and moon, though the sky doesn’t alter, we are already grown.

Catherine Wang

12 PORTRAITS– AMBERLEIGH CLARKE

12 PORTRAITS– AMBERLEIGH CLARKE

The act of drawing is an exercise of both the hand and the eye. Rather than communicating a specific conceptual idea, the following pieces display Amberleigh Clarke’s technical ability and comprehensive understanding of observational drawing.

By including both earlier and more recent pieces, we are able to observe her evolution as an artist from one who relies on schematic representations to one who is able to communicate all of the details and intricacies that lay before her eyes. Seeing how realist portraiture is associated with creating perfect photographic renderings of people, exhibiting her process not only allows the viewer to witness her growth, but also displays her confidence. The mere ability to perceive and then translate what one sees holds significant artistic merit, as it is a skill applicable to many disciplines of visual expression.

Kiel Torres

A collection of Amberleigh’s portraits will be exhibited in the Point Gallery  from Feb 21st to March5th.

Kitty Hsieh: Abstracted Thoughts

Kitty Hsieh: Abstracted Thoughts

None of these pieces immediately communicate a direct message or appear especially planned. However, the ability to draw in a stream of consciousness is an effective way of clearing one’s mind when stuck in a boring class, waiting around or simply relaxing. Rather than being meticulously planned out, these pieces display the result of seeing where your art will take you in the moment. Beginning by repeatedly drawing a certain shape on whichever surface is available, often a notebook, the abstract shapes are eventually developed into a captivating design. The decision to use ink exhibits a feeling of permanence, relying on a stream of creativity, instead of spending time perfecting each detail. Abstracted Thoughts came out of a state of restlessness, attempting to occupy oneself by drawing whatever comes to one’s mind.

Aly Slobodov

Mystery Paintings

These super cute little paintings appeared on my desk the other day.  No note.  No name.  Aren't they great?  I love them.  Who did them?

Gabrielle Jardine: Admiration

Gabrielle Jardine: Admiration

The act of admiration and worship we have towards famous people is the result of our great love and respect we have towards their attractive qualities that we may envy and wish we had in ourselves; or merely what we ourselves value in a person. These qualities may include what we look for in our friends and family; honesty, respect, someone we can go to for comfort and confide in.

Admiration reflects this theme of the act of praise towards people in our lives we value; through traditional portraits done in graphite and pencil. 

Cosette Bote

Meditation By Kai Vorland

'Beauty' by Nancy Tseng

   Our basic figure and form, our body movements, our animals, our plants, everything on our planet is a form of beauty, yet at the same time everything is judged that way. Is there a real definition, a picture, a criterion, for beauty? We are so absorbed by what society defines as “pretty” that things unable to meet these standards are shamed into being “ugly.” The abstract forms in these pieces capture the fake perceptions of beauty media feeds us. Though when we break from these conceptions, beauty is in fact, limitless. 

Unsettling by Aly Slobadov

The theme of my exhibition is inspired by my growing interest in the horror genre within the last year. I also wanted to experiment with different mediums for each piece. My first drawing was of a character called Alex DeLarge in the film “A Clockwork Orange”, which I found in my old sketchbook from grade 10. Since the movie is quite dark and somewhat disturbing, I thought it’d fit well in the exhibition and decided to work on it to make it feel more complete. I experimented with charcoal, which I didn’t have much previous experience with. The second piece was a sketch from the summer, which I added oil pastels to, which I don’t often use. The next piece was a reproduction of a comic from the ‘50s, which was later made into one of my favorite childhood cartoons. In my last piece, I wanted to incorporate two of my polaroids that didn’t develop, and i thought they fit well since the darkness of the photo is quite unsettling.

ATTEMPTS by Forever Young

In general, people always have a feeling that fine art is just all about drawing and painting.  Well, I should not say all but most of the people are more focusing on drawing techniques.  Actually, there are various mediums in art. Therefore, trying out different styles and medium definitely helps us widen our artistic vision. Light painting and multiple exposures were skills that I have used in the following pieces. They seem difficult to be achieved but they are actually fairly easy to do. Why not have a try?

Every Passing Day by Kevin McAllum

For this series I wanted to capture the beauty of fall, from the vibrant colours of the leaves on every tree to the ominous shadows in the night that grow longer and colder with every passing day.  I also wanted to challenge myself by using pastels, a medium that is fairly new to me but with enough practice can be used to make astonishing art.

AT SCHOOL by Kiel Torres

I can’t sit for too long. When I do, my mind begins whirring. I get rushes of hyperactivity where I want to sprint down the halls, spin until I’m dizzy, lie on the ground, turn over my desk and laugh until I can’t breathe. Although these overwhelming impulses lead me to question my sanity, it is equal parts exhilarating as frustrating. This state is somewhat destructive, but at the same time it is where my mind flourishes. It is where I thrive. It’s messy, imperfect, silly, and random, but I like it.

BREAKING POINT by Cosette Bote

The following pieces I’ve done represent the emotions I’ve been feeling lately that have escalated from me feeling calm, to feeling stressed out of my mind.
Beginning in my head, making its way through my body, ending with me wanting to rip my own skin off, I wanted to focus on the feeling of stress and frustration. Whether that frustration being at school, the issues happening around the world, my parents, myself, or just that distress of not having my daily espresso; stress and frustration is definitely what I’ve been finding myself feeling lately.

To Our Lost Childhood by Catherine Wang

This is a series of drawings I did that represent childhood memories.  Children can find interest in everyday things anywhere such as the huge tree or garbage bins that I drew in my pictures.  The strange thing is that as we grow older we cannot find these things at all  and it is hard to find these funny things in our imagination that mange to make us both happy and satisfied.  When we were children we could find happiness anywhere, even if it was only a garbage can.

Our Path by Cassie Cannon

My Art pieces are a collective representation of our world today and its eventual and inevitable ending.  They start out by illuminating our current world; driven by consumerism and the need to buy more.  The peices then progress to show people trapped trapped in the cycle of consuming as if they we in an invisible jail.  Finally the art pieces show our worlds inevitable ending if we continue on the path we are on.  Throughout the process of creating these pieces, I tried to use as many different processes as possible in order to give the work diversity while connecting them with an underlying theme.  The materials include pencil, collage, watercolour, apint, a photogram, charcoal sticks, charcoal powder and black and orange conte.  Ultimately, the four pieces I created reflect our world and a possible world through diverse materials.

TIRED MIND By Chris Bonell

These drawings are the result of a very tired mind; someone who should be sleeping.  When you get past that point of nodding off into dreams and suddenly you are wide awake with tons of energy and a sort of dark mood full of undirected and confusing emotions. Very raw and primal.  Sort of like a caveman seeing a tiger in the wild for the first time and being shocked and confused and losing an arm or a leg in the process of trying to kill it and eat it before it tries the same.  It’s the same sort of primal urges here and I’m cycling through them while all the time confused as to whether I want to rip this paper or throw it or give it a kiss or just look at it for a while.  Sometimes I get to do to all of that.  That’s a pretty good description of how this all happened, I think.

DRAWING GAME by You-Bin Lee and Frank Wang

Two Senior Art students, You-Bin Lee and Frank Wang who draw for fun!

Frank and I didn't speak for an hour as we played this game.  We each took turns choosing objects in our immediate surroundings to interpret.  The objects had to be mundane, everyday things that might otherwise go unnoticed.  We were interested in how each of us had a different skill set and a different perspective (both physically and mentally).

You-Bin (green Ink)

Frank (black ink)