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COLLIDE Story by E IF YOU’RE WONDERING 024 WHAT WE’RE FEELING Drawing and Painting IAN BELL ‘23 students 10% create visual said OTHER “I haven’t taken an art class at the HANNAH D’EPAGNIER ‘23 high school. I use art mostly through covers with LUCIANA SAIYA ‘23 music to put my mind in a calmer “My entire life I’ve loved WHERE performing whether it be “I feel photography place, so that I can relax and not be Covid playlist singing, dancing or acting. There captures the real picture of stressed out about most things. It is a feeling you get when you are a moment when drawing really helps me when I need it.” in front of an audience during a may not be able to project preferred QR codes the same feeling that a performance and that is why it is EVERYONE PHOTOGRAPHY my favorite form of art.” photograph can.” 45% AND KYLE PANKOSKI ‘24 MUSIC IS AN ARTIST YOUNGSUN DUFER ‘21 “I really only use or listen to music BRAIDEN HARRIS ‘24 “I like painting because you to motivate me and make me happy Over 200 students “I like drawing because don’t have to make a visual in when I need it. The music I listen your mind. With drawing or you can be more share their preferred 14% preferred PAINTING photography you have to be to helps me express myself. I don’t creative and it is more inspired, but with painting you really like painting or drawing so I visualized. You can really method of art over can just throw it on a canvas and really just stick to listening to music.” express yourself more Instragram poll something cool comes out of it.” with a drawing.” 31% story by e. rawlings ART preferred DRAWING design by j. bishop ARTIST: Isabella Rector ‘22 COLLIDE story by e. rawlings ALBUM COVER: Rector titled her album design by j. bishop & e. rawlings ARTIST: Samantha Aitken ‘23 “Abditory.” Her inspiration for the art had ALBUM COVER: Aitken used a different come from looking at YouTube tutorials approach to the project and used digital and one highlighted painting “someone EMILY MARJOUA, ART art to combine multiple album covers into holding a red umbrella” so she had added it hers. The album covers were from the to her cover. songs she put in her playlist including: Mac “My Drawing and Painting class THE PLAYLIST: She had trouble narrowing Miller, Frank Ocean, Tyler the Creator, and the songs down in the playlist like Melanie worked on a pandemic playlist Brent Faiyaz. Martinez’s “Numbers” and Rick Astley’s album cover that included QR codes THE PLAYLIST: Some songs she included “Never Gonna Give You Up.” She just to the songs that helped them on her playlist were from those artists on picked them out depending on how she felt through the pandemic. Students the cover such as “Someone Like You” by she could use them in the album cover. could scan the code and listen to Mac MIller, “In My Room” by Frank Ocean REACTION: ”This project let me vent my songs. I am so proud of all the work and “See You Again” by Tyler the Creator. thoughts through art and song about the the students created.” REACTION: “I chose these songs based impact of quarantine in general, and I really on music I had listened to a lot over enjoyed that.” quarantine and I also enjoyed this project because it was very fun to recreate something from my favorite artists.” ARTIST: Natalie Nebeker ‘24 ARTIST: Denisse Cordova-Rodriguez ’22 ALBUM COVER: Nebeker’s artwork was ALBUM COVER: She created an art titled “When Life Gets Hard to Stand, album that depicted what life was like Kneel,” which she took from inspiration of today and what the music in her playlist her favorite genre of music: country. described. It was all about the idea to THE PLAYLIST: The playlist she created “Teach Peace.” included country songs like Rodney Atkin’s THE PLAYLIST: She picked some of her “These Are My People” and George favorite musicians such as Billy Joel (“We Strait’s “Check Yes or No” that she grew Didn’t Start the Fire”), Jackson Browne up with and the songs Nebeker became (“Dr. Eyes”) and The Beatles “I Want to most comfortable with over quarantine. Hold Your Hand”). REACTION: “I did enjoy this art project REACTION: “Art is a beautiful way to because it allowed the students like me express one’s self and this assignment was to let their creativity flow, and it was all a challenging way to bring two expressing based on their interests. It is cool to see if things (music and art) together. Choosing you had your own album what the cover music, these musicians express humanity, would look like.” love, anger, and hope in their own ways.” IT’D BE LIKE EXPRESSING IT THROUGH ART 025 drawing and painting art projects, art poll 9 Job # 06846 School Brighton HJ HJ Job # 06846 School Brighton 9 Special Instructions Special Instructions 24 Template Template 25 WICC1801L WICC1801R ©2018 Herff Jones, Inc., ©2018 Herff Jones, Inc., Even All Rights Reserved All Rights Reserved Odd Page Page Black Ink Includes Spot Color(s) Process 4-Color (CMYK) Black Ink Includes Spot Color(s) Process 4-Color (CMYK).
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