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Freedom<br />
Gayoung Do<br />
Grade: 8<br />
School: JHS 194, Queens<br />
<strong>Art</strong> Teacher: Lauren Sabatini-<br />
Cabrera<br />
Acrylic on paper<br />
STUDENT: I believe art has<br />
helped shape me into<br />
who I’m becoming and<br />
has given me ideas for my<br />
future. I’ve never been<br />
good with words and I<br />
find my pictures tell my<br />
thousand words. While<br />
I’m creating art I feel like<br />
I’m who I’m supposed to<br />
be. It relieves any sense<br />
of stress that I am feeling.<br />
Mrs. Cabrera has been<br />
my art teacher for my<br />
three years at JHS 194.<br />
Along with giving me confidence,<br />
she has taught me how to use new<br />
materials, media and techniques. This<br />
work involved optical mixing. It was<br />
necessary for me to step back and<br />
constantly look at my project from<br />
a distance to see if the colors were<br />
mixing correctly.<br />
of the unit was the development of<br />
a student-generated rubric which<br />
was later used to assess their work.<br />
Watching Gayoung work is inspiring<br />
to me and to her classmates as well.<br />
Students often asked her questions<br />
about her painting and her technique.<br />
TEACHER: Seventh-grade students<br />
studied Post-Impressionism and<br />
Neo-Impressionism. Students used<br />
oil pastels to experience the texture<br />
and movement in Vincent van Gogh’s<br />
work. They worked with optical mixing<br />
to experience the work of Pointillist<br />
Georges Seurat. We studied Seurat’s<br />
painting A Sunday on La Grande<br />
Jatte. Students practiced using acrylic<br />
paint and made color wheels using<br />
Q-tips to understand the technique<br />
of optical mixing. An important part<br />
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