2024 Painting Gallery
BUENA PARK
PLEASE LET GO
Jasmine Mercado-Cruz
Idea: How does holding onto past relationships affect our growth? One sided yearning, death, & holding on.
Materials: Acrylic Paint
Process: Photographed friends embracing in longing pain. Added skeletal overlay & flowers to symbolize death.
INNER SELF
Jennyfer Lopez
Idea: Male model wearing makeup and embracing glammed feeling with in himself, the gems show his inner aura expressed within.
Materials: Acrylic Paint & Gems
Process: Took a photo of a friend, then painted and experimented by adding gems to the background.
UTOPIA
Jennyfer Lopez
Idea: Rolling around in dream like utopia. Warm hues to represent joyous mood and connection with mother earth.
Materials: Prismacolors, Artificial Flowers, White Gel Pen
Process: Photography, triple exposure in Photoshop, illustrated in Prismacolor and experimented the background texture.
ERA OF RECONSTRUCTION
Jasmin Mercado-Cruz
Idea: Friends support each other in trying times. Recovering from hardships, taping them back together, building community & love.
Materials: Acrylic Paint
Process: Sketched composition, arranged models, took photos from various angles. Sketch & painted final details.
FULLERTON UNION
BEGIN AGAIN
Spike Lopez
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.
USURPERS UPON THE HORIZON
Spike Lopez
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
JOKE
Helen Sanders
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.
LA HABRA
NIGHT EYES
Alyssa Perez
Acrylic painting
ESSENCE
Noah Esquivias Collado
THE REALIZATION OF LIFE AND DEATH
Leo Hernandez
BIRDSONG AND OLIVE OIL
Eden Reyes
SONORA
SUMMER'S ONLY BAGGAGE
Emma Kim
Oil paint on Illustration Board
GOT THE LIFE
Jessi Solorio
Bristol Board, Acrylic paint
MORNING DELIGHT
Adam Garcia
Acrylic and Gouache Paint
CONTEMPLATION
Keilani Darvin
Oil on canvasboard
MIND GAME
Adam Osuna
Acrylic on canvas
THE KING OF SOUL
Marquise Mines
Watercolor
CLAIRE
Isabella Gonzalez
Watercolor
THE EMBRACE
Sasha Erazo
Acrylic on canvas board
AFTERTHOUGHT
Reece Dutchen
Acrylic on board
WONDERLAND
Faith Goosseff
Watercolor
ORENJI FLOW
Jesus Colchado
Acrylic Paint
THE GATHERING
THE KOI POND
Christopher Chavez
Acrylic on canvas
SUNNY HILLS
ADJUST
Charlene Tsai
Idea: College girl struggling to fit in back home after graduating and living back in childhood room.
Materials: For this piece I used acrylic paint and a 12x12 artist panel.
Process: I interviewed someone and created an apartment room for them based on their life.
FADING INNOCENCE
Brian Lee
Idea: I painted a boy who is going to war. His innocence, represented by his smile, will fade away.
Materials: Oil Paint, camo sheet as background on an illustration board
Process: I painted a portrait of my friend, and added the camo details after.
WHALE TALE
Jacob Kim
Idea: I wanted to convey my perspective on how grand the ocean life is onto a canvas.
Materials: Watercolor, Colored Pencil, and Pen were used to make this piece
Process: I had a few days to work. I did pencil and ink on the first day and colored everything on the last.
FRAGMENT OF BEAUTY
Amerie Chiang
Idea: fragmented photo to express anxiety of appearance, a call for acceptance, makeup or plain looks are both beautiful
Materials: acrylic paint on canvas
Process: Composition layout, rendered faces & background details w/ acrylic, thicker paint to simulate lipstick
SCREW YOU
Iris Kim
Idea: 1920’s flapper girls, nonconformity, feminism, masculinity, gender, personal experience
Materials: Fine/chunky glitter, acrylic paint, Elmer’s glue
Process: Sketch, underpainting, acrylic painting, outlining, pasting, gluing, applied glitter.
ROCK
Junhee Lee
Idea: Capturing chaotic/ecstatic nature of rock concerts by visualizing the music/atmosphere of the event.
Materials: oil painting on canvas
Process: Images of explosive items arranged to express intended emotions. Mix of realistic and abstract styles
TROY
RED HERRING
Nadia Park
Oil Paint
REFLECTION UPON EVOLUTION
Audrie Kim
Acrylic Paint
SELF-PORTRAIT
Laurencia Chmielarski
Acrylic Paint, Colored Pencil
CAMBRIA CREPUSCULE
Wyatt Bedard
Idea: With my mediums I wanted to represent one of the majesty of nature spaces, specifically in regards to light.
Materials: Indian Ink, Pen, Acrylic, Charcoal and graphite
Process: Took a picture in Cambria. Referenced photo and with Indian Ink for the setting. Then I layered Acrylic in the foreground to create depth. The intricate design was done in pen to bring the beauty