Category: Blog – Art

Patrick is one of our teen artists in the community. He has excelled at using pen and some of his best works are done in pen. His style is playful and he is always coming up with interesting things to draw. These are different sketches from his sketchbook.

In the Fourth Quarter of the 2006-2007 school year, the Art Class students were assigned to create Christian symbols for their project. Megan chose to create six tiles, one for a specific season on the Christian calendar: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Holy Week, Easter and Ordinal Time; which is the Season after Pentecost. The process for…

In the Fourth Quarter of the 2006-2007 school, the Art Class was assigned to do sculpture. The first assignment was to create a Christian symbol. The second sculpture assigned could be whatever the student desired to sculpt. Brittany’s first sculpture was depicting Matthew 18:20 “For where two or three are gathered together in my name,…

These are two watercolors that Megan did in the Second Quarter of Art Class this year. One is of a ruin by the ocean and the other is of a castle in Germany. The water-coloring process involves first drawing the picture and then laying down a very light coat of paint (usually yellow) called a…

We have two new pieces by Jared for you this time! He titled the first “Sunrise” and the second “Eastern Sun”. Here are some thoughts he had on the creation of “Eastern Sun”. “The minor key with half step intervals where we don’t normally hear them in western music gives the exotic feel. I chose…

Here is another guitar piece by Jared. He has been having a lot of fun with his music lately, and we will be posting more of his work over the next week or two. This one is titled “Rain”. He used a double filter effect and the bending of the pitch to create the ethereal…

This is a poem that Brittany wrote as a tenth grade English Literature assignment. The assignment was to write a poem that expressed a Christian view of death. “A Shining Shore” I heard the voice of God say,I will come to take thee home today.You shall be with me,And you shall be free. I saw…

Derek is a budding artist in our community and loves to spend time drawing pictures, usually of animals. This is a picture that he drew in his sketchbook of a Siberian Tiger.

This is a portrait that Timothy did during our community retreat in January. He used a special pencil of wood-less graphite and Bristol pen paper to give the picture a smooth look.

This is a poem that Megan wrote as an English assignment depicting a ruinous city on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Remember Grasses weave, waves crash, blue sky overheadWheat and flax; gold, blue, redStone, half –sunk, buried undergroundColors abound.Mountains rise, birds call, breezes from the sea;Olive, Alder, Oak; Ash- the sacred tree.Foam-tipped waves crash,Song-sweet…