Hey @artanddesignnyc students! The FanfaireNYC Mascot Contest Deadline is tonight. Form Link is in the bio.
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Confused #lost #graphite #flashback #highschoolart
Rainbow in the sky #lost #chalkpastels #flashback #highschoolart
RIP little owl friend #scratchboard #flashback #highschoolart
Warrior II
(A high school art piece from 2017).
#art #artwork #drawing #drawings #sketch #sketches #watercolour #markers #pen #waves #ocean #highschoolart
colored pencil drawing of a pheasant with strands of grass and a solid navy blue background
(2013) commissioned by a family friend for her husband who loves pheasant hunting #highschoolart #realisticart #coloredpencil #alcoholmarkers #pheasant #pheasantdrawing #birds #birddrawing #birdart #artcommisions #commissions
mixed media drawing of a girl’s face. she’s white with green eyes, and side swept brown bangs. the background is pink with darker pink swirls.
(2013) ap art final exam - we took a photo of all our eyes and we had to draw someone else in the class. #krackedmeggs #highschoolart #realisticart #coloredpencil #alcoholmarkers #eyes #drawingeyes #apart #apartclass
tan paper with shells drawn in colored pencil.
matted frame, colored pencil shell drawing hung on the wall with a wooden spoon and fork decoration along the sides.
(2013) still life shell drawing - this piece is hung in my grandparent’s dining room, hence the giant spoon and fork #krackedmeggs #highschoolart #realisticart #coloredpencil #stilllife #stilllifedrawing #shells #seashells
charcoal drawing of a whole pepper next to a cut pepper.
(2013) pepper still life drawing that we did in ap art #krackedmeggs #highschoolart #realisticart #charcoal #charcoaldrawing #charcoalstilllife #stilllife #stilllifedrawing #peppers #apart #apartclass
A young woman lies diagonally across a wide meadow dense with tall green grass and spring wildflowers of pale yellows, purples, and soft blues clustering around her hair and shoulders. Most of her body has almost been absorbed by the meadow except her head, shoulders, and parts of her arms. Her pale skin glows in the warm afternoon light as loose strands of brown hair frame a resting face turned to the side, eyes closed as if feeling the sun rather than watching it. Quick pastel strokes suggest both texture and wind movement that disappears in a blur of color, blending figure and landscape. Nothing feels staged: the marks are layered and visible, the texture of oil pastel creating a living surface that catches light differently from each angle with distinct tonal contrast between the figure’s outline and the green meadow around her. Leah McCann’s “Reilly” captures a moment between consciousness and dream, when identity and environment seemingly dissolve into one another. Created while she was a 10th-grade student at Little Rock Central High School under art educator Jason McCann, the work’s title may reference a friend or self-portrait surrogate. The reclining pose and fusion with nature evoke classical pastoral repose but through a distinctly contemporary, adolescent lens that is honest, unfiltered, and intimate. Her work and pastel’s immediacy mirrors the emotional directness of youth as the field becomes both a sanctuary and likely a metaphor for inner growth. Reilly stood out in the 62nd Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition for its technical maturity and quiet assurance, reminding viewers that serenity itself can be radical. “When I draw,” McCann noted in a local student-art feature, “I’m trying to hold on to the feeling before it changes.” Her work invites us to pause with her in that fragile, luminous stillness between childhood and becoming an adult.
“Reilly” by Leah McCann (American) – Oil pastel on paper / 2023 – Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (62nd Young Arkansas Artists Exhibition, Little Rock) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #WomanArtist #WomensArt #BlueskyArt #WomenPaintingWomen #StudentArt #HighSchoolArt #ArkansasMuseumofFineArts
Redrawing a piece from 2005 compared to 2025! #frankenstein
#frankensteinsmonster #universalmonsters #boriskarloff #jameswhale #artistimprovement #artistgrowth #caricature #pendrawing #zebrapen #halloween #Drawtober #Sketchtober #Arttober
#Drawlloween #highschoolart
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Robotics and art. Cooper made a drawing machine with Lego!
#penplotter #penplotterart #highschoolart
This square portrait shows a beautiful young woman seated on an orange seat in a subway car. She wears a gorgeous pink dress with a deep neckline and thin shoulder straps plus a pink medical mask that covers her nose and mouth. Her eye shadow is also pink, echoing the dress and mask. Her warm medium-brown skin tone is modeled with smooth, even layers as light glances off her brow, cheekbones, and décolletage. She turns slightly to make direct eye contact with us, calm and self-possessed. Behind her, the subway wall and window are simplified into soft planes of movement; within the dark window glass, a blurry reflection of her dress and body repeats her silhouette. The color design centers pinks against muted grays and orange, guiding attention to her large almond eyes. Painted in 2021 within Baker-Stohlmann’s ongoing “Subway Series,” Turso turns a fleeting commute into a sustained act of looking. The square format compresses space and heightens presence: instead of a bustling car, we meet one rider, held by steady light and precise contours. The mirrored reflection in the window complicates that intimacy with one person, two images like how public spaces split our attention between how we feel and how we appear. Pinks (dress, mask, eyeshadow) create a chord that reads warm, candid, and contemporary, while the pared-down background resists spectacle, letting dignity lead. Entered in the 2022 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, “Turso” earned a Gold Key in the New York City Region and a National Gold Medal in Painting, distinctions that recognize “originality, technical skill, and emergence of a personal voice.” It was featured at The Met Fifth Avenue of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (March 18–May 22, 2022) in the annual New York City Regional Gold Key Exhibition. The artist’s portfolio records acrylic paint, 16 × 16 in (January 2021) alongside her related subway portraits that insist a daily rider is a worthy subject and the subway a studio of life in the big city.
“Turso” by Luna (Theo Luna) Baker-Stohlmann (American) - Acrylic paint / 2021 - The Met Fifth Avenue (New York) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #WomanArtist #TheoLuna #TheoLunaBaker-Stohlmann #WomensArt #TheMET #pink #mask #subway #AwardWinningArt #acrylic #StudentArt #HighSchoolArt #WomenArtists
When “Safe Space” was submitted to the 2019 Maryland High School Juried Art Exhibition at the the University of Maryland, it earned the First Place / President’s Award that carries not only honor, but tangible support: a $5,000 prize (with $1,000 awarded to the student and $4,000 directed to her school arts program) and poster reproduction circulated among Maryland schools. In this work, young artist Kaya Abramson draws us into a room that is deeply personal, yet universally recognizable. Her bedroom serves as a stage for contradiction: it houses creative work and rest, but is small, messy, and visually discordant. Abramson admits to disliking its dimensions, wall color, and clutter, but also feels profound comfort in its constancy. The painting’s composition reinforces this tension. The artist is rendered at near full scale, reinforcing how confined the space feels while underscoring the intimacy of inhabiting one’s own world. A saturated palette, rooted in childhood memories, brightens the scene, turning what might have felt oppressive into a space filled with emotional resonance. Within the clutter of books, tapestries, posters, and personal objects, there is structure. The items remind us that life is built not from minimalism, but from accumulation, memory, and moments. Abramson uses the décor of tapestries pinned to walls, posters layered atop one another almost like camouflage, softening harsh architectural boundaries and making the space feel more lived-in and self-shaped. This painting was a milestone in the artist’s development, yet, “Safe Space” also resonates beyond the personal to underscore the possibility that highly individual work can affirm that student voices, interior worlds, and ordinary spaces belong within the public sphere of artistic discourse. Abramson’s room becomes a metaphor for how we carry our interior lives outward, how imperfection can be integral to belonging, and how a small room can contain a lot of our world.
“Safe Space” by Kaya Abramson (American) - Oil on canvas / 2018 - George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology (Maryland) #WomenInArt #WomenArtists #art #artwork #artText #WomensArt #WomanArtist #KayaAbramson #AmericanArtist #HighSchoolArt #BlueskyArt #bskyart #selfportrait #OilPainting
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Manga on the Move: High School Artists Drive Home Safety with Stunning Truck Wraps!
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This portrait of a dark-skinned woman shown in profile against a violet background, created by high school senior Serine Kugler, won the People’s Choice Award at the ArtNow 2022 Brave New Worlds exhibition, a juried show highlighting youth voices across Silicon Valley. Kugler’s work was celebrated not only for its visual impact but also for its emotional depth. The woman’s eyes are closed, pinkish lips slightly parted, and her head tilts back in quiet serenity. A single light gold tear flows down her cheek, curving along her jawline and neck. Her hair streams upward like flowing grass, painted in vibrant green, interwoven with small yellow flowers, white dandelions, and delicate ferns. The background features faint, swirling, water-like patterns. The overall effect is one of beauty laced with emotion. The painting engages directly with the hidden struggles of mental health. At first glance, the subject radiates peace, yet the golden tear exposes an inner ache. The lush, upward-sweeping hair, transforming into invasive weeds and wildflowers, symbolizes how mental illness can quietly spread—often camouflaged by appearances of vitality. The plant imagery blurs the boundary between growth and intrusion, suggesting both resilience and fragility. Kugler said: “This piece is a take on the issue I want to see fixed in my brave new world, the issue of mental health. The woman in the painting looks peaceful, with the exception of the single golden tear falling down her cheek. This is the first sign that something is wrong, showing the physical emotions of her thoughts. Growing out of her head are invasive weeds, representing the disease that spreads through people with mental illnesses. It is camouflaged as harmless flowers, just like how mental illness is not easily detected, and often overlooked.” By combining beauty and vulnerability, Kugler’s “I’m ok” embodies the power of youth art to confront stigma and to call for empathy in the “brave new worlds” of tomorrow.
“I’m ok” by Serine Kugler (American) - Acrylic on Canvas / 2022 - New Museum Los Gatos (California) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #NUMU #ArtNow #art #artText #WomanArtist #LosGatosHighSchool #NewMuseumLosGatos #AcrylicArt #WomenArtists #artwork #BlueskyArt #SerineKugler #HighSchoolArt #MentalHealth
An oldie but a goodie: Surrealism. Dali Inspired Clock.
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Get your students thinking about the proportions of the body with this Da Vinci inspired ‘Vitruvian mannequin’ resource.
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New this summer: Perspective and Depth!
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This was published last week and has been really popular!
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Looking forward to next summer's Creativity Tour to the Greek Islands! We have 11 people signed up including 5 friends from previous creativity tours. Just 9 spots left!
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NAEA logo; acceptance letter; NAEA conference info
See y'all in Chicago!
Looking forward to spreading the word about women artists, especially those with overlooked her-stories.
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From the art-chive: I have quite a range of lobster art lessons!
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Why not try 'Art Critique Cards' this year? They come with a list of 15 different ways to use and a glossary.
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It's good to know you can find professional development specifically for art teachers that can be completed in your own time and your own pace.
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Kick off the new academic year with this striking X-ray drawing project – students love the drama of white pencil on black paper!
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These were published last week and have been popular: 20 Surrealism Drawing Prompts! buff.ly/jEEKCMd
(The snail is to catch your attention!)
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What is 'Form' in art?
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Three Christmas ornaments sit on a white background. A penguin with a flipper raised in greeting stands in the back, neighbored by a reflective sphere. In the foreground, a glass train refracts the shades and shapes of the former ornaments. The full image is rendered in black and white.
I'm posting every day to get used to being either seen or completely ignored and have it not affect my mental.
Anyway, here's an old painting. I really like painting translucent and reflective objects.
#acrylicpainting #highschoolart #oldart #penguinpainting #glasspainting #glasstrain #reflectiveart
The 26th High School International Art Exhibition: A Global Showcase of Youthful Creativity in Tokyo #Japan #Tokyo #HighSchoolArt #InternationalExhibition #CreativityFestival
