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.

THE POINT GALLERY IS COMING!

The Point Gallery is a new art exhibition space at Point Grey Secondary that was developed to showcase student’s independent art practices!  The gallery is run by students for students.  Any student, no matter the age can have a show in our gallery.  The only criteria is that they have to show their own work, their own ideas.  Don’t show work that you did for a class or a tutor.  We want to celebrate your ideas! Your talent! Your creativity!  Application forms are available online or you can see Mr. Long for more information (dlong@vsb.bc.ca).

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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.

Camera Contrastica

This is a project that I did with my grade 9's. They had to choose pictures of old cameras (so beautiful) and simplify them using cut-out matboard.  The intention was to do relief printing with these but they were so nice as is (and to be truthful we kinda ran out of time) that we left them.  I think they are great.