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Untitled<br />
Sherlly Nunez<br />
Grade: 11<br />
School: Long Island City High<br />
School, Queens<br />
<strong>Art</strong> Teacher: Erica Downer<br />
Colored pencil on paper<br />
STUDENT: I come from a family<br />
of artists, and being an artist<br />
has made a difference in<br />
my personality and how<br />
others see me. I’m known<br />
as someone with talent who<br />
creates and attempts new<br />
ways of creating. Ms. Downer<br />
has guided me through any<br />
difficulties I had with this<br />
work. At first I doubted my<br />
artistic ability, and then Ms.<br />
Downer showed me great<br />
artists’ works that are similar<br />
to Untitled. This helped me<br />
achieve my finished piece.<br />
The longer I worked on the<br />
drawing, the more I realized it wasn’t<br />
that hard. I looked for help from other<br />
artists, learned to gain the skill needed<br />
to complete my piece, and finally<br />
overcame my doubts as an artist.<br />
TEACHER: Sherlly’s drawing was created<br />
for a Georgia O’Keeffe unit lesson. For<br />
high school students the lesson is an<br />
accessible transition to abstraction. In<br />
order to compare compositions and<br />
plan their own, students use a view<br />
finder that is proportional to the paper<br />
they will use. Positive and negative<br />
space is emphasized to help students<br />
better see the proportions of their<br />
objects and the background. Working<br />
with colored pencil gives them an<br />
in-depth experience with the medium<br />
and helps them better understand the<br />
process artists use to layer and blend<br />
colors. Sherlly’s compositional plan<br />
and use of colored pencil blending<br />
created a superior work.<br />
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