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Stripped Down<br />
Lili Ok-Ellis<br />
Grade: 8<br />
School: Lower Manhattan<br />
Community Middle<br />
School<br />
<strong>Art</strong> Teacher: Jaime Seymour<br />
Acrylic on paper<br />
STUDENT: <strong>Art</strong> is such an<br />
essential part of my life and<br />
has identified who I am<br />
ever since I was a little<br />
girl. In Stripped Down I<br />
incorporated my personal<br />
style and demonstrated<br />
the fundamental skills of<br />
observational drawing I have<br />
learned from Mrs. Seymour.<br />
She gave me the creative<br />
freedom to produce what<br />
I felt my true self-portrait<br />
should be. I was able to<br />
paint who I really feel I am. I created<br />
the focal point, the skull. I created<br />
juxtaposition by using soft pastel<br />
colors with the severity of black and<br />
white. It was a mental challenge<br />
representing who I am, but I expressed<br />
myself with my own aesthetic and<br />
style. I was able to produce what I feel<br />
depicts me accurately without being<br />
a mirror image.<br />
TEACHER: My eighth-grade art students<br />
completed a painting unit by choosing<br />
to do either a winter landscape or selfportrait<br />
acrylic painting on canvas.<br />
Lili’s self-portrait is expressive and<br />
clearly achieves the eighth-grade<br />
painting performance indicators as<br />
outlined in the Blueprint. Her rich use<br />
of acrylics, awareness of light, value<br />
and contrast, and use of prior sketches<br />
and plans from her sketchbook point to<br />
a mature artistic style.<br />
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