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Tell us a little bit about you and your background. Well My name is Irene, I joke with others that the best way to remember it is to think of the hurricane. I have been making art since I could hold a crayon. I started off with mainly cartooning and drawing. Once I discovered anime that changed everything concerning  my style and subject matter. My artwork is heavily influenced by my main loves- Japanese culture, Crocs, Cats and Labubus.     What attracted you to work at One River School? My original major at Kean was Art Education. This is where I also started exploring my passion for ceramics. I knew I liked two things -art and helping people. When I discovered One River I thought, this could be the place for me. I liked how the classes worked, how the lesson plans were organized and that students would be learning…

Art Shuffle®: Kids Monochromatic Seascapes Overview: Students create an original monochromatic seascape painting using acrylic paints, as inspired by the work of artist Matthew Fisher. Essential Skills: Learn how to successfully blend colors toward a gradient. Discover how to create value using acrylic paints. Create a painting of multiple tints/shades of a single color. Vocabulary: Blending, Value, Tint Shade, Monochromatic Featured Artist: Matthew Fisher

Tell us a little bit about your journey as an artist. From a young age, I’ve been drawn to creativity across many media and styles. In school, I was often sketching on the side, using drawing as a way to turn my thoughts into something visual. My first formal art class was a ceramics course in third grade, where I loved creating sculptures, especially dragons, which have remained one of my favorite subjects ever since.   Which has been your favorite project to work on at One River and why? My favorite project was an observational drawing of the One River art supply closet. It was a small graphite piece that captured the enclosed, cluttered feeling of the space. Working within those physical limitations shaped my process and helped me focus and sustain attention over long periods. I really enjoyed sitting quietly in the space and recreating the environment I…

Art Focus®: Drawing: Teens Subterranean Dwellings Overview: Colored pencils present many opportunities for creative expression, story telling, and personalized details. Using colored pencils, students create subterranean burrows with connecting tunnels to tell a story of an imaginative underground scene. Vocabulary: colored pencils, layering, subterranean, and tonal paper Featured artist: Sarah Mari Shaboyan