2014-2015 DISTRICT ART SHOW

AN EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY FOR 5 POINTS

My dear friend and fellow Art Teacher over at Cerritos High School,

Ron Parks,

 organizes a district wide art show every year for us. 

He puts in many hours after school printing up labels,

delivering them to us at our various locations,

 and then the day before the show he sets up the tables and easels for us to use.

 He also covers the wall boards so that when we walk in with our pieces

 all we have to do is hang them for display.

Thank you Ron for shouldering this immense responsibility every year.

These are some of our areas of display.

I want to give a special thank you to my assistants,

alumni Alyssa Olea and Josh Berger,

for labeling, 

packing and delivering all our pieces over to the District Office.

Alyssa thought it was going to take two trips but she managed it in one with her monster SUV.

LOL

More thanks go to seniors Laarnie Barcelon and Reis Masaka.

They showed up after school to lend a helping hand and saved us a good two hours of display work.

I'm so very proud of my students and all the hard work they put in for me,

and it's such a pleasure to be able to show off their art  for the community to see and appreciate. 

I also want to feature some of the best pieces from Ron's students at Cerritos High 

that I felt really made the show special.

I want to apologize ahead of time 

 for not jotting your names down as I was photographing your work.

I will return to the show and do that this week and get your names up with your pieces.

I want to start with this work above Prayer Clasp by Minjung Soh.

Truly a masterpiece in acrylic.

Love your use of color and value.

And so very expressive.

It really touched me.

The skill level is extraordinary and I hope you will be continuing on in the arts.

Another piece that really captured my attention was this beautifully painted ballerina in acrylic,

Water & Ballet by Michelle Kim.

Wow, 

you can feel the dancer's movements. 

And I love how you cropped her and painted just the legs.

Powerful work!

Bravo!! 

I've always appreciated an artist who can fracture a subject.

It's very difficult to do and pull off.

And  Hilokilo, you have done it incredibly well.

I also like how you seamlessly moved your colors from the green family to the blush tones. 

Wonderful!

But the piece that stopped me in my tracks was this watercolor.

OMG!!!!

What high school student in America watercolors like this???

It's the very talented Minjung Soh again in Morning Road.

I thought it was done by a pro who had been working in watercolor for years,

not weeks.

Let me know if it's for sale!!!

And another one.

What's going on Mr. Parks???

I'm completely flabbergasted at the level of watercolor that you are getting from these kids.

Based on just this one piece in his portfolio,

Hilokilo should be accepted into any art college of his choosing.

And what a sophisticated work this is!!

Great choice of subject,

Patrick Del Rosa!

Wonderful depth of perspective,

and even has a bit of the feel of an M.C Escher work.

And I want to end with this playful and fun watercolor.

I love your subject Jalyssa Groom in Kyoto at Night, 

and it's asymmetry,

your attention to detail,

and your color choices.

There was no way I could walk by this work without stopping to take a gander.

Ron Park,

whatever you are doing over there in your classroom,

it's working.

And I feel very fortunate that we can display our students works together for all to see and enjoy.

District Office Art Display

For the month of November our district asked me to put up a wall of student art in the Board Room. I was honored, and it was fun selecting the pieces to use.  I tried to pull from every class but of course the clay pieces weren't ready yet.  So congrats to all of you whose work went up.  We received a lot of positive comments. 

Artrageous - Annual ABC District Art Show

Here are a few highlights from our annual district art show. The high schools that participated were Whitney, Cerritos, Gahr, and Artesia.

Several of our pieces below.

Some of my favorite works in the show were done by the Cerritos High School clay students. I always admire their coil pots.

I also really liked this abstract figure sculpture from Cerritos, as well as this wire sculpture . Unfortunately, I can't remember which school it's from. My guess is Artesia or Gahr.

The deadline for my art students to turn in their EXTRA CREDIT based on visiting the show is this Friday June 3.

Finished Slab Boxes - Student Art

Here are the finished, glazed slab boxes that I mentioned would be posted from a couple weeks ago. Congratulations to senior Rikaya Obilo (middle box) for winning an Honorable Mention with it at our annual District Art Show where we compete against the other high schools in our district. Below is a pix of Rikaya helping me with the show set up last week. Thank you Rikaya, your help was invaluable, your eye for detail amazing, and your patience in working with me unbelievable. Have I told you lately how much I love and adore you? :) The box on the left belongs to senior Caroline Ma, and the box on the right belongs to senior Cynthia Tsai. Great looking pieces ladies!