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Art Shuffle®: Plus: Teens House’s Homes Grades 6-12   Overview: Students use charcoal pencils and soft pastels on tonal textured paper and establish a history of mark making & vibrant colors to render a complex interior environment as inspired by Felicity House’s work. Essential Skills: Essential Skills: Learn techniques regarding soft pastels and charcoal pencils. Discover how to engage a space visually with contour lines. Create a drawing of a domestic interior space with explorative line work. Vocabulary + Terms: Soft Pastels, Charcoal, Paper’s Tooth Artist Inspiration: Felicity House

Tell us a little bit about your journey as a young and developing artist. As long as I can remember I have been making art. It started out as using crayons to draw “pancake machines” on napkins during lunchtime to hopefully something I will pursue as my career. I have always loved painting and drawing, specifically using acrylic paints to create realistic portraits of people and animals. This past year One River gave me the opportunity to try out oil paint, which is something I wouldn’t be able to do on my own. I have discovered that oil paint is a medium I truly love working with. I can’t wait to continue my journey at One River and in college to learn and expand my knowledge of art.   Which has been your favorite project to work on at One River and why? I really loved the self portrait in…

  Tell us a little bit about your journey as a young and developing artist. I was in 6th grade when I really started getting into art. Doodling all over assignments and taking up entire notebook pages with characters, instead of notes about atoms and swamp water. My art was originally inspired by the YouTuber LavenderTowne and the show Voltron along with the wonderful fan artists for the Percy Jackson books. Covid forced me inside near the end of 6th grade. And with the added time I just dedicated more time to my interest of character design and traditional mediums. 7th grade was when I joined One River, and where I started my first actual art class. I ended up with Teen Focus on Manga, I stuck to it immediately. With so many like-minded teens inspiring me and wonderful teachers pushing me every week I started to warm up to…