ASAA All-State Art

Illuminated


(1st Place (Tie) – Drawing)

Title of Art Piece: Illuminated
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Jenna Watson
School: Lathrop High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

In this piece I really wanted to capture an example of dynamic lighting. The light hitting the features of the face and hair really contrast with the dark background and bring the face to life. I created this piece using layers of black and white charcoal as well as some graphite and white gel pen.

Artwork Dimensions: 12 inches Wide x !8 Inches High
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Self Portrait


(1st Place (Tie) – Drawing)
Congressional Award Winner

Title of Art Piece: Self Portrait
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Abigail Veliz-Magana
School: Eagle River High School
Grade: 9th
Artist Statement:

For this piece, I really tried to show off my skill in drawing detail and showing value. Overall, I wanted the image to “pop”. The glasses were probably the most difficult, but I believe I executed it successfully.

Artwork Dimensions: 20 Inches High x 16 Inches Wide
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Good Things Age Like Fine Wine


(2nd Place – Drawing)

Title of Art Piece: Good Things Age Like Fine Wine
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Nichole Bearden
School: Eagle River High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

My piece, “Good Things Age Like Fine Wine,” is one of many in a central theme I am exploring through my studio art course. This image is a part of a series that exposes the elderly. Because our society idealizes youth and beauty and physical hard work, they are an important demographic that often go ignored, due to their inability to provide the aforementioned. The figures in my piece are engaged in a passionate kiss, seemingly atypical of their age. Their zeal and desperation, expressed primarily by the man who is clutching the woman’s face with his hand, resembles that of teenagers blinded by love or lust. Additionally, the image is rendered entirely with charcoal, whose textured and soft appearance aid in the composition of the subject matter.

Artwork Dimensions: 12 Inches High x 18 Inches Wide
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Erhu


(3rd Place – Drawing)

Title of Art Piece: Erhu
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Feng-Ching Chang
School: Dimond High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

I wanted to visualize the sound the instrument makes.

Artwork Dimensions: 12×18
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Teary Eye


(Honorable Mention – Drawing)

Title of Art Piece: Teary Eye
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Francis Giovanni Anino
School: Service High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

A teary eye hides a mystery of emotions which no one can tell if it is due to happiness or sadness, but the act of tearing soothes pain and lightens a burdened heart. It does not necessarily convey weariness because it takes so much strength to burst out or release emotions in order to pacify anxiety, pain, and hardship.

Artwork Dimensions: 8" x 11"
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Toasting Marshmallows


(Honorable Mention – Drawing)

Title of Art Piece: Toasting Marshmallows
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Emily Manthey
School: Wasilla High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

I use colored pencils in this piece to study, in depth, value and texture changes. My subject matter is something our family enjoys doing, roasting marshmallows inside together. The marshmallow and the flame create a very strong focal point through using a very detailed texture study. The repetition in the flames helps the eye travel to my focal point.

Artwork Dimensions: 10" x 10.5"
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The Thorn Rose

Title of Art Piece: The Thorn Rose
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Cherai Bales
School: Nikiski Middle High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement:

I had been sketching and drawing the rising star Ruby Rose and couldn’t help but paint her for the school’s art show in like five hours. Its called “The Thorn Rose” because she has a tatoo on her right shoulder saying just that. Also, tatooed on her knuckles are the words “Just Love” which is the name of my photography piece.

Artwork Dimensions: 9 X 12''
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Her Hair

Title of Art Piece: Her Hair
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Liz Oliva
School: Nikiski Middle High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

This piece is meant to give off the idea that art is a universal thing. Art takes us hand in hand through anything we can dream of. No matter who we are or what we look like. Art isn’t discriminatory. It brings us all together.

Artwork Dimensions: 24 X 12''
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Chisel Face

Title of Art Piece: Chisel Face
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Won Ro
School: Dimond High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

I am experimenting with isolating and fragmenting the parts of a portrait in order to understand and improve the process of creating three-dimensional illusion on two-dimensional surfaces.

Artwork Dimensions: 10×8
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Collaboration

Title of Art Piece: Collaboration
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Katelyn Wadsworth
School: Valdez High School
Grade: 9th
Artist Statement:

This is a collaborative work that I helped direct. Contributing artists include Myself, Joshua Doucet, Danielle Benzo & Rowan Miller.

Artwork Dimensions: 48 inches wide x 42 inches high
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Thoughts of Yellow

Title of Art Piece: Thoughts of Yellow
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Madison Gilberto
School: Thunder Mountain High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

All my life I have been fascinated by the human face and form. I’ve practiced in many mediums trying to capture a person’s essence and this has honestly been one of my favorite processes. I used prisma-color on illustration board. The piece took weeks of obsessive detail work. I’ve discovered a lot about a medium I had rarely used before and enjoyed myself immensely. For a lot of the highlighting and texture I used an x-acto knife to cut into the board and fray the paper, the process for which was extremely frustrating and ultimately rewarding. I get my passion for art and people from my great grandma who gave me the base for all I know.

Artwork Dimensions: 7" high X 5.5" wide
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I’m All Cubed Up

Title of Art Piece: I’m All Cubed Up
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Cierra Campbell
School: Thunder Mountain High School
Grade: 9th
Artist Statement:

This piece was a project in Drawing 1 based on cubism.

Artwork Dimensions: 9" wide X 12" tall
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Sweet Fangs

Title of Art Piece: Sweet Fangs
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Jessie Lamson
School: Thunder Mountain High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

I created these dragon’s while I was at a bakery. I got inspired by the cupcake I was eating to try and capture the feeling, so I began to doodle the cupcake, right on top five an older drawing of a small plain dragon. That gave me the idea to begin drawing the dragons as food, desserts specifically because the bright color and pretty decorations made for simple, recognisable designs.
Basically in short, I was hungry.

Artwork Dimensions: 12" X 12"
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Olivia

Title of Art Piece: Olivia
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Hannah Altland
School: Craig High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement:

I tried to capture my niece, Olivia’s personality, which is full enthusiasm and curiosity. This is my first portrait, but it certainly will not be my last.

Artwork Dimensions: 9×12
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Ghost Stories

Title of Art Piece: Ghost Stories
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Jenna Watson
School: Lathrop High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

This is a piece from several works in which I highlight features using dynamic lighting. It was done on black drawing paper and it pushes the light features of the face to the foreground, while also hiding the hands in the mid-ground. To create artwork I used white charcoal and white gel pen.

Artwork Dimensions: 9 inches Wide x 12 inches High
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beer.

Title of Art Piece: beer.
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Brekken Cogswell
School: Eagle River High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

My piece, titled simply “beer.”, is part of a series I’m currently working on exploring what a drink can mean to a person or a culture. “beer.” displays the emotions of those seemingly trapped in the grasp of alcohol. The foreground of the composition is a large bottle containing multiple beings malcontent with their surroundings while the background is littered with the remnants of a broken bottle. Shattered through unknown circumstances, the background represents either the escape of formally encased beings or the inevitable collapse resulting from the abuse of alcohol. The use of crosshatching by ink sharpens the piece to illustrate the unforgiving nature of alcoholism.

Artwork Dimensions: 9 Inches High x 5 Inches Wide
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Alternate Frontier

Title of Art Piece: Alternate Frontier
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Ashley Courter
School: Lathrop High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

In my art my, my main focus is texture and line quality with which I like to create value and dimension. In this piece I wanted to explore the idea of unknown lifeforms also seeking out new frontiers.

Artwork Dimensions: 21 inches high x 28 inches Wide
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Always Watching

Title of Art Piece: Always Watching
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Ashley Courter
School: Lathrop High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

In my work I focus on texture and line quality in which I create value and dimension. With this piece I was inspired by the Illuminati, I wanted the piece to give the impression that the viewer is always being watched.

Artwork Dimensions: 18 inches High x 12 inches Wide
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Systems

Title of Art Piece: Systems
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Samuel Unger
School: Unalaska City School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

I intended for this piece to be a statement on the music industry, how one band or artist is just one cog in the system. Part of the message is that the music industry sees the artists it employs as black and white, you either make us money, or you don’t work for us at all. Doing this piece in graphite was a challenge for me as it was the largest graphite piece I’ve drawn to date.

Artwork Dimensions: 18 inches x 12 inches
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Cabin in the Mountains

Title of Art Piece: Cabin in the Mountains
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Cole Nelson
School: Soldotna High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

I was fooling around with this idea of a cabin and the drawing just kept growing.

Artwork Dimensions: 8×10.5
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Curls

Title of Art Piece: Curls
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Olivia Kovacs
School: Ben Eielson High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

My portrait, Curls, represents an empowered woman with a mysterious side. I am a firm believer that women can be just as empowered and confident as men can be and in this portrait I was inspired to express that passion. The large, cowboy-style hat is meant to give her a mysterious vibe, because it covers her left eye and casts a dark shadow across her face and luxurious curls. Her sharp features show that she is not soft, but rather serious and assertive. The curls are bright and bold and give a nice contrast with the shadows to make her appear more mysterious. The lips are plump and round, to give her an alluring intimacy. I used oil pastel for this portrait because the contrast between dark and light is enhanced and I wanted that effect to take over the majority of the piece.

Artwork Dimensions: 15 inches wide x 22 inches high
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Ruins

Title of Art Piece: Ruins
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Kristin Hardman
School: North Pole High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

There was a photo of some old ruins and I enlarged with grid. It was drawn and shaded using graphite pencils in a variety of densities.

Artwork Dimensions: 18 Inches High X 12 Inches Wide
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Brick Wall

Title of Art Piece: Brick Wall
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Kristin Hardman
School: North Pole High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

This piece is a picture zoomed in on the bricks of an old building. I free-handed the artwork then used ink pens to draw and shade the bricks.

Artwork Dimensions: 14.5 Inches High X 11 Inches Wide
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Journey to Self Realization

Title of Art Piece: Journey to Self Realization
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Ruby Woodings
School: Palmer High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

Creating what you look like might defy what others believe you to be. To create this self portrait, the most difficult part was identifying the most outstanding personal traits that truly portrayed myself. After that the process went very smooth.This piece contains symbols that represent things I: enjoy, admire, hate, fear, and define me. Each specific detail somehow connects to me as a person. I used COPIC markers to show my bold personality.

Artwork Dimensions: 11" wide x 14" high
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Chance

Title of Art Piece: Chance
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Ashley Hansen
School: Craig High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement:

I wanted to further my skills in realistic drawing by drawing my little brother, Chance.

Artwork Dimensions: 9×12
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A Piece of Her

Title of Art Piece: A Piece of Her
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Kayli Breuninger
School: North Pole High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

This is a colored pencil portrait that I was lucky enough to create for a young girl in Bolivia. To make this piece an accurate representation of her, I strove to achieve a realistic style.

Artwork Dimensions: 12 Inches High X 9 Inches Wide
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Kim

Title of Art Piece: Kim
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Gilene Cinco
School: Ben Eielson High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement:

In this artwork, I used pastel to draw my brother playing basketball. I chose an image of my brother because we’re really close to each other and I love playing basketball with him. I chose pastel because of the challenge and the fun of it. Whenever I draw, I feel like I’m expressing myself in a way that I can’t with words. And it makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something afterwards. This drawing turned out looking well-blended.

Artwork Dimensions: 19 x 25 inches
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Disney

Title of Art Piece: Disney
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Michaela Wages
School: Ben Eielson High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

I decided to create this image after I came back from my first visit to Disney World in December of this year. I wanted something to commemorate the craziness of the trip. The bottom of the image is blank because the Disney castle was so pristine and beautiful while the rest of Disney World was chaotic and rushed. Like the trip to Disney, the artwork is beautiful and chaotic.

Artwork Dimensions: 14 inches high x 17 inches wide
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Self Portrait

Title of Art Piece: Self Portrait
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Creveenz Tangi
School: Ben Eielson High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

When I was in second grade, we had a project in which we had to copy something from a book or magazine. I picked a bird from my book. After I finished, my classmates loved it. They said it looked like the picture that I copied. And that’s how I started. My inspiration to draw is probably because of my dad, because he wanted to be an Architect, that was his dream job, but he didn’t become an Architect. I was thinking of becoming an Architect for him. When I look back on my drawings, I can’t believe I did that. It makes me happy that I could do that.

Artwork Dimensions: 12 inches wide x 19 inches high
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Old Man

Title of Art Piece: Old Man
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Francis Ian Anino
School: Service High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

An artist can use any medium to come up with his work of art, but the beauty of it exudes from the artist’s passion and how artistic he is in conveying the message to the beholder.

Artwork Dimensions: 8" x 11"
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Sea Gazer

Title of Art Piece: Sea Gazer
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Jubilee Graff
School: Lumen Christi High School
Grade: 9th
Artist Statement:

She is the sea gazer, ever watchful. She watches over her blue kingdom, and all of the various creatures, big and small, scaled and finned. Like the sea gazer, we must always keep an eye on the sea, for it is our kingdom as well. Have we cared for the sea as the sea gazer has? Or do we turn our backs to it, allowing those who reside to be overpowered by waste, pollution, and the result of our carelessness? What right do we have to call ourselves caretakers of the sea? Are we truly sea gazers?

Artwork Dimensions: 12 inches high x 9 inches wide
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Wanderer’s Stare

Title of Art Piece: Wanderer’s Stare
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Jubilee Graff
School: Lumen Christi High School
Grade: 9th
Artist Statement:

Wolves have always been my favorite animal, and I wanted that to be reflected in this drawing. I wanted the focus of this drawing to be of the wolf’s wise stare, her piercing blue eyes contrasting with the snow. She is truly on with the night, her fur blurring together with the small fury. I can almost hear the wind echoing through a barren pine forest in the cold hours of night as I draw her.

Artwork Dimensions: 16 inches high x 12 inches wide
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Panda

Title of Art Piece: Panda
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Alma Reyna
School: Palmer High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement:

This was my first time working with pastels and velour paper and I really enjoyed the medium. I chose to work with a subject that had a lot of texture, color and a variety of lights and darks, for example, the grass has contrasting light and dark values. The panda bear has soft fur and with the velour paper and pastels I was able to create soft texture that resembled its fur.

Artwork Dimensions: 20 x 27"
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Call of the Wild

Title of Art Piece: Call of the Wild
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Laurel Sullivan
School: South Anchorage High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement:

The intense gaze of the wolf evokes the “Call of the Wild” — focused, fearless, and free.

Artwork Dimensions: 15" x 10"
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Sharpies

Title of Art Piece: Sharpies
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Keith Perry
School: Wasilla High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

This is a colored pencil study of my Sharpies. I used colored pencil to show a realistic gradation of value. My hope was to give a sense of depth in the picture through high contrast created by the shadows. Overlapping and foreshortening help create the shallow sense of depth.

Artwork Dimensions: 12" x 12"
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Bike Study

Title of Art Piece: Bike Study
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Keith Perry
School: Wasilla High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement:

This is a technical drawing of a bike. I used foreshortening to create a sense of depth in the picture. My media is graphite, and my goal was to realistically portray the many different textures on the old bike. I believe I was successful in showing the reflections, rubber, and rust.

Artwork Dimensions: 24" x 18"
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Crossing the Border

Title of Art Piece: Crossing the Border
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Kasey Casort
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

This is a cartoon I created in response to the 2016 presidential election.

Artwork Dimensions: 4 x 6
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Push Down and Turn

Title of Art Piece: Push Down and Turn
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Quinn Vinlove
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

I was inspired to create this piece based on current trends of prescription drug abuse and overuse of antidepressants, as well as personal observations from time spent in the hospital. Using a drug reference book, I observed the many different pill types, shapes, and patterns before sketching the basic outline of this piece in pencil, then coloring with markers, using multiple layers of different colors to get the shading as smooth as possible.

Artwork Dimensions: 14.5 x 14.5
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Washing Dishes

Title of Art Piece: Washing Dishes
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Emily Manthey
School: Wasilla High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

This piece is a graphite study of hand washing dishes. I used high contrast in my value tones to create a strong focal point. The repetition of pattern and texture from the dish and soap bubbles successfully gave the drawing an overall rhythm and unity that I was very happy with.

Artwork Dimensions: 12 x 10.5"
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Strawberries

Title of Art Piece: Strawberries
Category: Drawing – 2017
Student/Artist’s Name: Emily Manthey
School: Wasilla High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement:

This drawing was a colored pencil study of light, and texture. I used a very familiar subject matter of moist strawberries to focus on repetition of pattern in the seeds. The highlights and shadows give us a strong visual sense of the fresh water on the berries. Using black paper gave the colors a depth that I was very happy with.

Artwork Dimensions: 12" x 10"
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