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Happy<br />
Jaka Ceesay<br />
Grade: 6<br />
School: Urban Science<br />
Academy, Bronx<br />
<strong>Art</strong> Teacher: Ilayda Altuntas Nott<br />
Pencil and mixed paper collage<br />
STUDENT: I learned to communicate<br />
through art without<br />
even using my lips but by<br />
swaying the bristle of my<br />
paintbrush, or using other<br />
art tools. I can express<br />
myself through creativity.<br />
I believe that creativity is a<br />
combination of imagination<br />
and fun so no one can say<br />
he or she has no talent in<br />
art. My art teacher allowed<br />
me to express myself in the<br />
most beautiful and crazy<br />
ways. The amount of sweat<br />
that went into my work was rewarded<br />
with the gift of happiness. I’m only a<br />
child. I’m young and full of life. I<br />
create art not only for myself but also<br />
for my teacher because I love her.<br />
TEACHER: For our unit Drawing with<br />
Tracing Paper: Collage Portraiture,<br />
students learned how to create a scale<br />
of five different values, using pencil<br />
on tracing paper. Students used their<br />
observational drawing skills to create<br />
contour maps of their self-portraits as<br />
the foundation for their final artwork.<br />
They assembled tracing paper to<br />
correspond to the tones mapped out in<br />
the contour drawing. The translucent<br />
quality of the tracing paper allowed<br />
for organic overlapping of tones.<br />
Jaka’s collage demonstrates mastery<br />
of composition and an ability to<br />
recognize proportions in a drawing.<br />
The artist’s intensive focus on cutting<br />
and gluing techniques add to the<br />
work’s technical sophistication. Jaka’s<br />
cheerful persona is conveyed in the<br />
gesture of the figure, as well as the<br />
additional details.<br />
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