CHARLOTTE’S ART PORTFOLIO

2009-2011

Experience Taken 4 years of art in 3 years, Junior in high

school  Best Medium and Topics

Black and white charcoal, profiles  Art Goals

My professional goal is to become an art teacher for the Deaf at high school or college level. Though I would like to receive as many awards as possible for my art and become the best there is.

 What Does Art Mean to Me

What Does Art Mean to Me

Art is a personal way to express things that no one else can. It’s always your way of viewing things and how you try to get others to see what you see. It can also be another way to inspire people to do or be something; help the environment, be a better person, create something, etc. It helps me to know that I have put a part of me into the world that expresses a little bit of what I see on this earth. Creating art can tell someone something about themselves and can be a way of discovering who you are. When you look back you will always remember that nothing ever can be made to look exactly like what you created and then that gives you peace of mind that you made an original piece, in turn giving you a confidence boost. Art helps your mind be creative and helps you express and find yourself and also be original.

Art Events

Participated in V.A.S.E. 2 years in a row

Accepted into the District Art Show my junior year

Received best rating you can get on all of my pieces that I have entered into V.A.S.E.

District and High School art competitions.

Art Classes Art I: focused on giving the student a feel of each

of the areas of art; ceramics, drawing, painting, sculptures

Art II 3D/Ceramics: focused on letting the student create sculptures out of different types of material; clay, random metal objects; springs, hinges, nails, spatulas

Art II Drawing: focused on letting the student use different types of material to draw with; colored pencil, crayon, black and white charcoal, regular pencil, sharpie, pens

Art III AP 2D: focused on letting the student explore all the types of 2 dimensional art; painting, drawing, scratch board

Project CelebrationI chose this piece because I wanted to show the deep contrast and the bright shine off of the bottles and glass. And then because I wanted to have people think about our history as a nation, because the light bulb is to make people think of who created the light bulb in the first place and then how much it affected our history.

Anger From Up CloseI chose this piece because it had so much detail, especially in the glasses, eyes and in the hair. I was able to show all of the scratches and scrapes on the rims of the glasses. In all I was able to do what I wanted and show as much perfection and get as much detail as I wanted because it was such a close picture.

Tears in the LightI chose this piece because was trying to show how dramatic a girl can get. You see that she is crying and the far away look like she’s dreaming of what could have been instead of what was gives it the “drama queen” feel. I tried to make the tears take all of the attention even being so small in the picture.

UnitedWith this piece I was trying to put as many patterns as possible without really hurting the actual profiles of the two people. I was trying to make it seem almost as if they had just realized that with all their differences they still loved each other. And the patterns represented each of the persons’ hobbies or interests. Something that they live for. I want the person looking at this piece to wonder what the two subjects are thinking at the moment of the photograph.

Simple TranquilityWith this piece I wanted to show the different parts of one person could look so totally different in different views. That no one way you look at it will ever be the same. I took the picture with him blank faced because some times you’ll see him smiling, and then the next you see him in deep thought. Then you see a serious face and next a really angry face. You can see so many different emotions; it just depends on your view. But you always can see that he is at peace with whatever is on his mind.

Awards