Spike Lopez
Painting
Teacher: Kudron
Idea: It's a piece about after heart break, after pouring your heart out to someone, that the trust is broken and you must begin again. Building yourself up again to being stronger and more of yourself, finding who you truly are. The piece is also about unavoidability, how I had to face my problems of relationships, both romantic and platonic, head on and accept every outcome.
Materials: Hand-made canvas and acrylic paint.
Process: I took a used canvas drop cloth and made a canvas stretcher, then nail gun to attach the canvas to the canvas stretcher with help from one of my teachers. From there I just let my soul flow out of my heart and onto the painting, using strong brush strokes to create vibrancy and unavoidability.
Emily Kugelmann
Drawing
Teacher: Hudson
Idea: A spin on the concept of heart vs. head. I focused on the idea of listening to the heart's wants and desires and the idea it should overpower any anxious doubt.
Materials: Charcoal
Process: I drew an anatomical heart and brain on 2 separate brown paper bags. Then I crumpled the brain bag and kept the heart bag pristine. We took reference photos in a mini light studio. Then I sketched the peice onto a large brown charcoal paper. I filled in the shadows and highlights of the subject. Finishing it off by darkening the background and adding wood grain to the table.
Spike Lopez
Category
Teacher: Mr. Hudson
Idea: I originally was changing my AP portfolio theme to talk about love and hookup culture. I didn’t want to redo 10 paintings so I continued my other idea of telling a story of Medieval Era kingdom with King and his King Consort going against a usurper who later kills the kill while his consort murders the usurper.
Materials: Acrylic and Canvas Board
Process: Drew shoes, then turned it into two people in cloaks in the forest across a strait from the kingdom
Helen Sanders
Painting
Teacher: Mr. Hudson
Idea: My portfolio is ‘Human imitation of nature,’ and hence the subject for this one are those novelty squirt-flowers. I took advantage of surrealism and texture to draw a connection to the water and flower, and meshing in a sly face.
Materials: Acrylic paint on canvases.
Process: I began with a general sketch of the forms and gathered some reference images to collage together. From there, I went section by section to block paint in.
Isabella Curiel & Katherine Hudson
3D Design
Teacher: Mr. Hudson
Idea: The idea was to bring the tree monsters from a young boy’s nightmares to life. Allowing the actors to emote, and fluidly perform while also being ominous and striking to the eyes.
Materials: Mixed Media
Process: Prosthetics: Lifecast actors faces in alginate. Hydrocal cast of negative space. Sculpt with clay. Hydrocal cast of sculpt. Foam latex cast of negative space with aid of positive facial cast. Airbrushed base colors. Dry brushed highlights. Dark washed lowlights. Armor: created patterns from life, cut EVA foam, solder etched textures, joined materials, painted in acrylics, dry brushing highlights and color variations.
Noah Ervin
Category
Teacher: Mr. Hudson
Idea: In free body diagrams in physics you can't tell whether or not the mass is moving with constant velocity or is stationary. I connected this with a real problem in life, that sometimes you can’t tell if you’re stuck in the same place or continuing to move.
Materials: Ink. chalk pastel, oil pastel
Process: Create neoclassical sketch and label them with a free body diagram showing constant velocity or stationary with the force vectors applied to the mass
Dusty Wheeler
Photography
Digital Camera
Sailor Marenco
Photography
Digital Camera
Jonathan Pina-Villanueva
Photography
Digital Camera and Photopea photo editor
Charlotte Meek
Photography
Model, strawberry, digital camera
Eliana McCarthy
Photography
Digital camera, PhotoPea, Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop Fix.
Sofia Crail
Photography
Models, canon camera, iphone
Nathan Vaughn
Photography
Canon 90D, 70-200mm lens, and Photoshop
Helios Serna
Photography
Canon Camera
Frida Hernandez Benitez
Photography
Iphone camera and Dazz Cam filter
Sophia Lopez
3D
A variety of beads, 20 gauge wire, one step looper tool, silver charms, a watch charm, lobster clasp, and an extension chain.
Kennedy Chen
3D
Paint on an aluminum can and wire
Astro Dodds
3D
Wire, styrofoam, acrylic paint, small figures (bench, apple tree, grass, frogs, snails, moss, roses), chain pieces, hot glue, super glue, a shirt, sharpies, a necklace, a canvas, a spoon, and water.
Damaris Delgado
3D
Cardboard, paper mache, hot glue gun, glue, water, paint, and spray paint.