For this project, I wanted to do a banner based on the Bad Bunny Superbowl performance and the levis billboard during it that said, "The Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate is Love." For this project, I originally was going to make it on a canvas like I usually do, so Coach's idea of making it like an actual protest banner was out of my comfort zone. When I was making the banner, it was rough because it was originally a twin size mattress cover. It was so long and kind of a pa

Jamal Shabazz is a contemporary American photographer known for his street photography documenting everyday life in New York City, especially in Brooklyn during the rise of hip-hop culture in the 1980s. He was born in 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, where he continues to live and work. Shabazz primarily works with photography, especially street portraiture and documentary photography that focuses on community, identity, and urban life. His official website is www.jamalshabazz.com

I decided to do something a little bit different than what I've been doing recently. I decided to be more openly political with this one, which I wasn't sure was a good idea because I was scared what others would think or if the school would even let me hang it. But I wanted to focus more on content, and specifically gun addiction. I was doing this because I noticed the increase in gun violence in schools, allowed to happen as a result of our lack of gun laws. In my art piece

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is a contemporary Native American artist from the Salish and Kootenai Tribes. She works mainly in painting, collage, and mixed media. Her art often talks about Native American identity, history, politics, and the environment. Her work has been shown in major museums like the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and the National Gallery of Art. She has received many awards for her influence on contemporary art. Many of her a

My person is Liam Weis. He is also known as the spray paint guy on the internet. He's known for spray painting people's clothes around Richmond. Weis is a student of VCU, but travels often. While he's located here, he has murals from Richmond, NYC, LA, etc. At Armstrong Highschool, he helped to coordinate the Armstrong Center of Empowerment. He says that he helps kids to express themselves after school, teaching art and helping them to overcome their struggles. The ACE is kno

I started off this project after my Asian art one. In my Asian one, I wrote it in Vietnamese to connect it back to my culture and background. I didn't have the same connection for this, but I talked to other students and teachers, read a book, and took the stuff I learned in former classes and my AP AFAM class to make this work. I made this piece to continue off of my theme of minorities who made up America in these American propaganda posters. I really liked making this one.

Basquiat, or Jean-Michel Basquiat is a contemporary artist and was part of the neo-expressionism movement. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, 1960. He first gained attention in the late 1970s as part of the SAMO graffiti duo in Lower Manhattan, but later had a breakthrough in a solo show at Annina Nosei Gallery in 1982. Basquiat's Debut at Annina Nosei In his work as SAMO, this was during his highschool years, where he would write and illustrate for the school paper. SAMO cam

I think I have gotten much better in figure drawing than last year. I have a greater grasp of anatomy and value as showed in the picture above. Last year was my first year doing figure drawing, so my concept of proportions wasn't the best. I think since I've been working in dynamic poses a lot since past year, it has drastically improved my skills. My style of posing and figures is more comic-book like where body proportions tend to be exaggerated, which may have been helpful

This year, I wanted to have more of a specific theme or stance in my works. Last year in art 4, I didn't really know what I was doing; I was going for a comic book or pop art style with a focus on typography, but now I wanted to gear it towards something I'm passionate in. I started off with imagination or connection last year, so in this work, I'm still tying that back in, taking inspiration by contemporary artists and rioters, but from a pop lense. My art piece, or summer p

Project #8 Final Draft When I was figuring out what to do for this project, to be honest, I wanted to go back to dynamic poses. My last...

For my 2nd semester home project, I think this will be a portfolio project than something connected to what I'm doing now. These canvas...

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Compared to the last project I did, I had more of an idea for this project. But it did come with a lot of setbacks. Originally, during my...

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His art is really cool, especially to me since I live and breathe comics. My art style in class has been leaning graffiti and comic pop...

At first, starting this project was really hard because I didn't know what I was doing. I felt burnt out and couldn't figure out what I...

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This is the current idea I had for my Home Project. For my summer project, one of my concepts were with dragons, because I really loved...

The artwork on the left is the middle of my project. I wanted to go for a comicbook style theme, like how when we were kids, we used to...