Creative Corner

  By: Aubrey Edwards    If you ever thought a fashion trend was gone for good, there is a huge possibility that you are mistaken. Over the years fashion trends have started when new styles are introduced by designers, cultural figures, or everyday people. Trends typically stay relevant because they satisfy deep physiological needs for belonging and self expression while reflecting current cultural, economic, and technological shifts. When people wear popular styles it gives them a sense of belonging and community.  Fashion gives people a sense of self-expression to help visualize your identity.   Freshman Leann Richards feels that fashion is good because…

I aimed to create a composition on my current emotion. To better elaborate, this artwork particularly was created in the purgatory of fall. Where we return to school, but the swing of things just isn’t back. Furthermore, this artwork was the only representation of our school, and only one of two in our region, to be selected for exhibition in the Ohio Statehouse.

My name is Timothy Zimmerman. I am a senior, and for my senior project I chose to draw portraits digitally. This drawing here is a self portrait, and is the final drawing I worked on.

I mostly draw self portraits of people. This is called the side look based on a 1950's woman. For this portrait, I got my inspiration from looking at some old 1950's magazines my grandmother gave me.

I have dipped my artistic interests into the craft of portraits, starting senior year. I gravitate towards creating portraits; as an emerging artist, I believe that it is crucially important to master the concept of drawing faces and the human figure, if one were to dabble in the concept of drawing any human being. Overall, I greatly enjoy creating portraits. The following piece is a self portrait project I have made in last semester's Advanced Art class.

Eden enjoys photography as a way to express herself artistically. (Above Misty Morning) Nightly Ember Nightly Ember 2 Sunrise Standing Mushroom