This is one of the latest projects my daughter Tess completed for a college class last month.
She is pursing a degree in graphic design. This particular piece is a self-portrait that includes her and all of her favorite things over the years of her young life. She has pictures of her favorite toys, foods, pastimes, her siblings, clothes, dreams and even a beta fish that she got one year for her birthday.
When we look at it, we see something new each time. For a closer look, just click once on the picture and it will enlarge.
When she was little, say in the second grade, her teacher complained that she struggled to get her work in on time, because when she was instructed to do things like draw a picture of 3 kids playing ball and 2 kids jumping rope, she couldn't just draw a stick figure and call it good. She had to draw buttons and mittens and the laces on shoes and such. I still have some of her art work from back then....somewhere.
When she was a senior in high school, she entered the Scholastic Art Contest for a children's book she both illustrated and wrote. She won a Silver Award and was invited to a week long workshop in Iowa to improve her art skills. She also gave up the rights for publishing that book for two years to give Scholastic first crack at it. The two years are up and she will self-publish once she gets together enough money for the first copies.
She got a perfect score on this project, but her class is on-line, so she got no other feedback from her instructor or any classmates, which is frustrating for her.
I don't think I have to tell anyone that I think Tess' art is exceptional.
"I don't think I have to tell anyone that I think Tess' art is exceptional."
ReplyDeleteNo, you don't. You're the Mom, you're supposed to be biased!
...Not that any bias is needed here. That picture speaks quite eloquently for itself.