By: Lily Bleckler

With Bleckler taking inspiration from her love of otters, she wanted to make something cute yet fun. “They’re my favorite animal in the entire world and it was the summer so an otter in a pool with floaties, that’s so cool!” stated Bleckler. Making this dish, Bleckler started out with a normal pinch pot technique, pinching the clay and shaping it. “Since it was a pinch pot, making it look more rigidity makes it look more like water and makes it look kinda cool while still keeping it a pinch pot” said Bleckler. Bleckler hopes that when people see this piece they take away that it was cute while being functional. 

Otter laying in pool (Photo courtesy of Morgyn Hansen)

Erratic - Isabelle Recollet

This incredible collage was created by Isabelle Recollet, a senior here at WHS. Belle has a special ability to piece together cut outs from magazines to create intricate projects with deep meanings. “ I decided to make this collage because it depicts a sort of fear, whether it is the fear of something touching your eye or the fear of being uncomfortable, thats yours to decide.” said Isabelle.

Sporadic - Isabelle Recollet

This piece made by Isabelle is a sibling piece to the previous “Erratic” artwork she made. “This sibling collage shows my creativity through the colorful components, the robot and planet, and the mouth really spoke to me in a cool way.” said Belle. The time and work that goes into these pieces make the piece even more beautiful. To Belle, this piece resembles her colorful personality and love for collages, reminding her of her childhood love of art that has carried on through her school years.

The Dang Bird - Ash Nelson

This drawing of a bird was done by Ash Nelson, inspired by their love of the bird and the internet memes that it came from. Its silly appearance and unique squawk drew them to this design. “ The Australian Swamphen chick that i drew represents walking alone through life expressed by its singular leg that has no other support left to hobble along without a shoulder to lean on.” explained ash. “Drawing it in its chick form represents the naivety that one feels once alone, just like the dang bird” 

By: Savanna Rautio

Made by Savanna Rautio. While working on this piece, Rautio wanted to portray the sense of growth. She took  inspiration from nature. The message that Rautio wanted to portray all throughout her piece is, “It’s takes time to grow and find piece,” stated Rautio. The color theory behind it isn’t just for looks, but also, “the top of it is a darker color and the bottom is lighter because you find light at the end when you’re growing,” said Rautio. When asked why choose the hourglass as the outline for the symbol Rautio stated, “It signifies not only time but also when you flip it, it changes again”. The message that Rautio wants to show through this piece is that growth is beautiful. When asked what is something that she hopes the viewers take away with them, she said, “it’s not a main theme but it’s kinda like a smaller detail, but under where she is sitting there’s like a weighing scale that has a heart and a brain on it. It kinda weighs between the concept of mind vs heart because that often determines how you grow”. 

By: Isabelle Recollet

Made by Isabelle Recollet. “My middle name is iris, and I feel like I identify with that flower,” said Recollet. The black iris is meant to portray a sense of self that may be hidden from view. By taking a sense of self and connecting it the her middle name, this piece makes you think about how some things that may not be said but can still be found in  an underlying detail. When asked what she hopes the viewers take away from her piece, she said, “Art can be based of anything, it doesn't always have to have such a deep meaning,” said Recollet. While making this piece, Recollet wanted to make something that resembles herself, “there are a good amount of different Iris colors. Out of all of them I chose black, it represents me the most with the way I dress and my hair,” said Recollet.  It really aligns with her style and uniqueness. 

By: Isabelle Recollet

Made by Isabelle Recollet this collage was made using a difficult process, trying to represent the idea of black and white thinking. While the background is in black and white the surface looks more colorful and vibrant. “I started struggling really hard so I moved on to a different project but at some point I came back and started adding color, and I feel like it really brought it all together and I think it really adds to the meaning of how black and white thinking can really restrict you, so it’s kinda like ironic,” said Recollet. While it took a while to finish this piece it really comes together in the end. Making this piece the sense of black and white thinking and struggling to finish it, represents how thinking in only black and white can be damaging and restrictive. “I think it adds more to my meaning that it took me so long to do this and that I ended up adding color,” stated Recollet. Art can be made to represent anything and that’s the beauty of it. 

By: Lily Bleckler

Made by Lily Bleckler. While making this clay sculpture, Bleckler took inspiration from the album cover of Redbone, by Childish Gambino. Breaking down the process of this clay sculpture, she said,  “You get a big chunk of clay and you mold it into an oval, and you keep building and smoothing and boom you got a face,” said Bleckler. The process of making a clay sculpture can take a long time, making a face possibly even longer.  When asked if there was an underlying message behind the clay face sculpture Bleckler said, “art doesn’t always have to be pretty or like normal. Art can be weird and spooky and odd or rebellious”. Meaning art can be really anything and mean anything. It doesn’t all have to be sentimental or deep, but can instead be creative and fun. 

Creator: Myla Ogea

Art Piece: Textured Hands

Process: To start off she traced both of her hands onto the paper. She then chose more of a garden/ nature theme for all of her fingers. Textures including vines, flowers, stone, etc. To show movement and space she added in vines coming from all sides. Furthermore, she added water dripping down from the top, lastly she added in some very colorful butterflies of different shapes and sizes. 

Creator: Taylor Jackovich

Art Piece: Textured Hands

Process: She started off by tracing her hands. Then picked her favorite sports, softball and tennis, and drew them onto each finger, then went in with colored pencil lightly and outlined it with a fine-point sharpie.

Creator: Dalton LaBeau

Art Piece: Textured Hands

Process: He traced his hands. Next, he chose a different pattern/texture for each finger. His project is unfinished but he intends to continue coloring, making the feather an array of peacock colors. Also making the Giraffe a mix of more of an auburn orange and yellow etc. Once he finishes all of the animal patterns he will add more trees in the background to create depth.

Creator: Lily Bleckler 

Art piece:  Otter Ugly doll

For this project Lily first started off with choosing the shape and desired pattern and fabric. Once figured out, she began to cut two of each of her “body parts” out of her tan fluffy fabric. Next, she placed each part together but putting the fluffy sides facing each other, then using hot glue to stick the pieces together, not forgetting to leave a tiny hole. Once all of her pieces were glued together from their edges she then turned each shape inside out through the little hole that was left, revealing the brown fluffy fabric. After getting her main shapes down she then stuffed each limb with tiny cut up chunks of recycled plastic wrap and tape. Once her otter began to take form she connected all of her limbs together to create its body. For some final touches she used the same process to create a little fish for the otter to hold while adding some decorative beads for the details. As well as sewing on two buttons for eyes, a little pink yarn swirl for its nose, and finally a cute pink bow on its ear to complete this look.

Creator: Myla Ogea 

Art Piece: Georgia O’keeffe Flower

Process: To start this project, Myla sketched out her desired flower, but enlarged and close up. Once her sketch was to her liking she began to very lightly draw it on her final paper. Then she put down her first base layer of paint that all the other colors would be going on. For this specific painting she used tempera paint. Her first color that marks the edge of the flower petals is a nice dark maroon to show its lowlights. To show the highlights she faded the more pink color into a bright yellow and a hint of salmon orange. Next, she added the stamen (produces pollen)) and for some final touches she added some patterns and contour lines to the pedals.

Creator: Ansley Cieslinski

Art Piece: Lunchroom Mural

Process: To begin this very big and detailed project, Ansley started by sketching out her idea of her butterfly and flowers, deciding how she wanted it to look. After she made her sketch she then sketched the same drawing on the wall, but VERY enlarged. Then once she had her big drawing she painted inside the shapes all white so the colors would go onto the wall easier without having to put more layers than needed. Once completely white she then went into adding the details of the butterfly such as its wings, the color, and even the pattern. Once her butterfly was complete she then moved onto the flowers. She used different shades to show all of the highlight and lowlight points of the leaves and pedals to make it look more realistic. She finally added in the last touches, such as small contour lines.

Creator: Addison Burton

Art piece: Low Relief Sculpture 

Process: To begin she took a rectangular piece of cardboard and painted the whole background blue with watercolor. Next, she cut out all of her little details such as the plants, turtle, starfish, etc. After cutting them out she then painted them and added details like beads to some of the plants. Next, she hot glued all of her pieces in her desired spot but leaving room for her main subject. Then she cut out the biggest piece of her shape then progressively made the shape smaller each time. Then she glued the pieces together, biggest to smallest, to give a birds eye view of the shark. Lastly, she painted her shark bright pink to make it stand out.

Creator: Ansley Cieslinski

Art Piece: Ceiling Tile

Process: This project is still in the making. To start off she took white tissue paper and laid it flat on the tile while using a paintbrush to spread paper mache glue evenly. After letting it dry she then sketched out her drawing onto it lightly. Next, she chose a cream or light orange for the background, red for the circle in the middle, and she decided that the cat’s bib would be a dark green. Finally, she made red lines to create a border. She still has some work to do, but this is her progress so far.

Creator: Dalton LaBeau

Art Piece: Low relief cardboard structure

Dalton first started off by choosing the size of his background cardboard. Next he cut out all of his desired shapes that will later be glued on to create more of a 3D look. He then painted his crescent moon with white paint. Next he glued all of his shapes onto the background, then ripping off little sections of the top layer of the cardboard and the shapes to create texture within the artwork. Lastly he added a piece of string hanging off the tip of the boys fishing pole to give the sculpture more feel and understanding.

Creator(s):  Ansley Cieslinski and Lily Bleckler 

Art Piece: Vasarely Tube Drawing

To start this project they both picked one point in the whole drawing that will be the vanishing point. Next  they both drew 6-8 lines going through that point. Then they both picked a shape that they wanted to be included and drew the shape and added details. They next divided their lines into highlight and lowlight sections. They also went in with sharpie to mark the shady shadow areas. Finally, they took a white colored pencil to add in the highlights to create the illusion of reflective light. 

Creator: Ansley Cieslinski

Art Piece: Low relief cardboard structure 

To start off she cut out all of the shapes she needed from cardboard. Next she started with the biggest shapes as the first layer of her sculpture. From that layer she continued to add the shapes together on different layers to create her figure with depth and making it more three dimensional. Finally, once all of her layers of cardboard were glued together, she then painted the girl with acrylic paint.

Creator: Diason Garver

Art Piece: Bump

To start off he picked at least a 5 letter word and drawing it in the middle of the paper but in bubble letters. Next he drew straight lines in the background not including the inside of the letters. After drawing the straight lines he then went to his letters and connected the straight line with a curved line to show the illusion of a bump in the paper. After drawing in all of his lines he lastly  went and added in tints, tones, and shades of the colors blue and green to display highlights and lowlights throughout the drawing. 

Creator: (Catherine) Mrs. Lange

Art Piece: Hello Kitty glass moon pool

To start off she kneeded a clump of clay to get all of this air bubbles out, then she took a rolling pin and started rolling the clay into a flat sheet no thicker than her pinky. After getting the right thickness of the clay she then cut out her disered shape of a crescent moon.  She then made thin strips to make walls and then blended the base and walls together. After letting the moon cresent get bone dry she then added crushed up blue glass into the pool. After putting the glass in she then put it in the kiln at a lower temperature just enough to melt the glass. After taking it out of the glass firing she then found a little hello kitty with her purse and a turtle in the clay scrap bucket. Which she put inside the pool after glazing the whole thing except the bottom. Finally she put a final layer of glass to get a nice shiny flat surface after the glaze firing.

Creator: Myla Ogea 

Art Piece: Personality Monochrome Portrait 

To start off she sketched out a rough portrait of herself with not as many face details or characteristics realistic portraits look. She then surrounded her self portrait sketch with more sketches of things that resemble her and her personality. Things like her interests and hobbies. After sketching she then went in with black sharpies to outline the drawings. Finally she took one color and added it in her desired places.

Creator: Emersyn Nelson 

Art Piece: Ceiling Tile

This creation is still in the making; but she first started off by covering the whole entire tile with white colored tissue paper. After putting the tissue paper on she then paper mache glued the whole tile. After letting the whole tile dry she then started her sketch of the first tarot card. But she did not just put it vertically, she drew it on an angle. This made it look like the card was going off past the viewing point. She then went on to painting in her main subject which is bigger than the trees to show space in the scene. She next painted in her dead trees smaller to indicate that they are farther away. Some trees are also being covered by the main subject which displays good overlap.

Creator: Ansley Cieslinski 

Art Piece: Doll Head Pinch Pot

To start off she took a decent portioned chunk of clay. She then kneaded the clay to get all of the air bubbles out of the clay. She then separated the chunk of clay into two roughly the same portion. Next she rolled the two pieces of clay into balls, then put her thumbs in the middle while pinching along the the sides of the clay to make a bowl shape. Then she scored the edges of the clay and added slip to bond the two halves together to create a hollow sphere. Following that she added on her additional shapes like the arms, feet, nose, and hat. After letting the project become bone dry she then put it in the kiln to be fired. After taking it out she then finally  used different colored acrylic paint to color the clown.

Creator: Ansley Cieslinski 

Art Piece: Yayoi Kusama-piece of cake

Process: She first started with creating a patterned background with craypaw with different colors. Then on a separate piece of paper she drew she subject outline then painted the base colors she wanted. After that she then overlapped the solid color with dots to create even more of a pattern to correlate it with the background. Finally she cut out her subject (the cake) and then glued it onto her background 

Creator: Lian Aragon

Art Piece: Mrs. Lange (art teacher) holding her cat

Process: She began with masking tape, cutting the pieces into different widths, then placing them on paper to make a subject. Next, she started painting the subject with cool colors and the background with warm colors. Then she peeled off all the tape and finally painted the outlines with tertiary colors to show lowlights and highlights.

Creator: Jaelynn Watters 

Art Piece: Yayoikusama-pumpkin

Process: She first started off with her background. She did this by using a black crawpaw to make a spiderweb pattern that covers the whole entire paper. Next she took a dark purple watercolor and painted over the pattern. Then on a new piece of paper she drew out her pumpkin with more craypaw; but big enough to cover most of the paper and still able to see the background pattern. Once the outline is finished she then drew on different colors and shapes of dots within the pumpkin. Next she took an orange watercolor and painted completely over her pumpkin. Finally she cut out her pumpkin then glued it onto her background paper.

Creator: Hannah Cieslinski 

Art Piece: Paper Mache duck

Process: She made a paper mache duck. First, she started off with cardboard, shaped them and stapled them together. She then proceeded to stuff it with newspaper. After, she paper matched brown paper towel onto the figure with paper mache glue and then added colored tissue paper over it.

Creator: Avery Vial 

Art Piece: Nail Board picture

Process: She first started off with sketching what kind of shape she wanted, then tracing that same shape onto her piece of wood. After drawing the outline she then hammered nails onto those lines creating its shape. Once she had her desired shape she took brown yarn and started stringing each individual nail to somewhat “color” in the main shape. Finally she took one more color of yarn and filled the rest of her project with the same technique as last time. 

Creator: Dalton LaBeau

Art Piece: Paper Mache Hammerhead shark

Process: He started off by sketching his work onto a piece of cardboard. Then cutting strips, and attaching them to the base to create the three-dimensional shape. After that the hollow structure of the figure is stuffed with newspaper to thicken it up to make more of a body. Finally the shark figure is covered with multiple layers of brown paper towel and news paper then covered with paper mache glue to keep it held together and compact. After it is all dried the grey color was painted on with 2 layers.