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Subtle Flowers<br />
Poline Grishina<br />
Grade: 8<br />
School: IS 239, Mark<br />
Twain, Brooklyn<br />
<strong>Art</strong> Teacher: Ellen Shlayan<br />
Watercolor and various pens<br />
on paper<br />
STUDENT: Being an<br />
artist has given me<br />
opportunities to meet<br />
people with similar<br />
goals and has paved<br />
an art career for me.<br />
Whenever I have<br />
free time, or I am not<br />
feeling my best, I can<br />
count on drawing to<br />
pick me back up. I can<br />
always count on my<br />
art teacher to offer<br />
her opinion on how to<br />
improve my work. She<br />
has encouraged me and<br />
her other students to draw every<br />
day. As I worked on Subtle Flowers<br />
I had to figure out how to create<br />
the light flowers against the darker<br />
background, and make them stand<br />
out. I decided to use the white enamel<br />
marker to add an element of contrast,<br />
and a black micron pen to further<br />
outline the flowers. It was challenging<br />
for me to establish a common light<br />
source throughout the piece, and to<br />
use that light source to strengthen<br />
the reflection on the glass of the vase.<br />
Studying photos of vases helped me.<br />
TEACHER: Students were challenged to<br />
create a still life using watercolors.<br />
This required the use of observational<br />
sketches as references, and the<br />
ability to mix tints, shades, and<br />
tones of primary and secondary<br />
colors. Poline’s work demonstrates<br />
an amazing use of light and color,<br />
brush strokes, and the shading of the<br />
objects. Combined with incredible<br />
details, this artwork is quite realistic.<br />
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