Senior Art Project: The Art Show Dedicated to Senior Artist

By: Adriana Ceballos

The Senior Art Project is one of the biggest art projects for Seniors taking art. Their project consists of painting on big canvases that could reach 4 to 5 feet tall in width and height that can take months to finish, or even start.

Art Teacher Steve Harris, who does the Senior Art projects says “The Senior Art show is where the senior art students get to show their art publicly and make a public show”.

Mr. Harris also says “The public show is where they have to put their (art) works out where the students could see them”. 

“What happens is that kids can not take the paintings home because the paintings are so big and they don’t fit in their room, so we’re keeping them and going to hang it on the wall or in the art gallery.” Mr. Harris says

Mr. Harris adds “Because they have already done all the basics and know how to do digital and learn how to set up art shows, this is the time where they can do their own show”. 

He continues with “Before they start (Drawing and painting) they have to present to me their rough draft, then we talk about it, and I give them advice which they could take it or leave it since it’s their work.” 

Audrey Longan ‘22, one of the seniors apart of this project, says “It means a lot since I started it (Horse Painting) at the beginning  of the school, a week or two after school“ they said “That was the project I chose and sometimes I regret it but at times I really enjoy it.“

Longan said “Because it’s so big there’s so many little details and a lot that goes into it. So I can’t use any big brushes too much, unless it’s that little middle piece…It took a lot of time and a lot of paint.“

“For the first few months of me starting it (Horse piece) was just me doing an outline on a piece of paper. Then I got a piece of plastic and went over that outline. We had to project that through the projector and I then projected it on the canvas and then traced it. All together it took around five months.“ said Longan.

Longan also said “I finally started painting around October around last semester… I tried to set a goal for myself every week of how much of the canvas I want to get done since that was the only way I would get anything done.”

“It does have meaning to me, because I do want to be an environmental scientist. This is influenced by that, since I want to do that. But I found out that this is a good way to express that through this. “ says Longan, they continue with “So that morphed into this, an expression of what I feel, what I want to do with my life.“

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