Art

 

Eline has always had a passion for photography and loves spending time outside, looking for new places where she can take pictures. She is from Norway, and most of her pictures are from the winter, but when she came down to Florida to live for a year, she quickly noticed all of the beautiful places there. She took this picture at a butterfly garden in Gainesville.

These two pictures were taken in a restaurant in New York during Mardi Gras.  A jazz band came in–and I’m a huge jazz fan–so I couldn’t help but take pictures.  While I was trying to find a better view of the musicians, I found myself looking at the girl in the other picture– and there was something about her that was almost magical.  I really like Midnight Blur because it represents the exhausted buzz of being up late, and reality becomes fuzzy, and anything could happen.

Francesca has bouncy red hair, a cat named Raspberry, and never matches her socks. She likes to notice things that other people don’t see. Sometimes she cannot control it, like noticing someone across the room biting their nails and not being able to stop, or hearing the slight clicking sound of their teeth for an hour. Other times, she picks up worms from the pavement after it rains so they don’t get stepped on. And yet other times, she finds wonderful and beautiful things to capture in photography.

—My brother and I walked to the playground at his elementary school, and they were tearing down the building.  We didn’t even know that they were going to do it so soon!  We ended up watching the destruction of the building, and I took some pictures.  It was exciting to watch the school get torn down but it was also sad.  I think that they should have taken down the art first because a lot of little kids watched from the playground as the school building went down.

It was at Cornerstone Elementary School in Wooster, OH.  We live a couple blocks away, and the dust settled onto our lawn.  The building had to come down because there aren’t as many kids in town anymore, and also the town has less money now.—

 

 

Maeve Florence-Smith attends Wooster High School in Wooster, OH, where she is a reporter and editor for the school newspaper.  She has won Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards and an NAACP essay contest and placed third in the It’s All Write, Ann Arbor Writing Contest. She volunteers at the local nature center and tries to spread awareness about the environment and foster a love of reading and writing at Alice Noble, the nonprofit summer camp at which she works.  She is currently working on a horror novel about bees and climate change.

I have always been entranced by the interactions between human beings and the different forms of intimacy they can share. I strived to capture these interactions using mainly pen and collaging, while incorporating items that can tarnish the authenticity of a relationship, such as money. Kissing, in my eyes, is one of the simplest yet most effective ways to show affection for a loved one, and I hoped to depict different couples kissing one another. Using hatching with a fine tipped pen, I capture realness while also putting a twist to the reference picture, either thematically or with a varied background.

 Devika Sharma is a seventeen-year-old artist from Singapore. She loves drawing portraits and has always had a fascination for drawing people. She can’t paint at all and primarily draws inspiration from artists like Egon Schiele.

 

This photo was taken on an exceptionally foggy day in San Francisco. I was originally focused on photographing the bay to the left of the photo, but once I noticed my dad walking away into the fog to get some signal, I thought it would make for an interesting shot.

 

Annie Ma is a senior at The Harker School in San Jose, where she is a co-editor-in-chief of the school’s literary magazine, HELM. Her poetry, prose, and photography have won several Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. She is the founder and president of The Book Bank (www.bookbank.org), a nonprofit organization that serves underprivileged communities by collecting and distributing free books to K-8 school children. Her favorite poet is Mary Oliver.