Just a Few Photos by Fanny

Florida, USA

                                            Somewhere on the Caribbean Sea...

Nassau, the Bahamas

by Fanny Chen

P.S. Hope you like it.   ^_^

This is How We See The World

This is an still-life acrylic painting assignment students from Visual Art - Painting class did last  November and December.

Taking a look at these paintings, isn't it amazing to see paintings on the same subjects done by artists from different perspectives and with various styles?

Yes, York Mills' got many art talents. ;)

Artist: ChaoYing

My friend said that I should name my painting "The Romance between Mannequins" or "Star-cross'd Dummies". The colours are very powerfully used in this painting. and it turned out very emotional and enthusiastic, as if there is somehow a story between the two mannequins. 

Red, Purple, Yellow are the basic colours I used, and they are like a great team that works amazingly together. But I explored a lot with colour theory in this assignment and I followed a consistent style for this painting with smooth, fresh brush strokes. 

Artist: Rasa

I was really drawn to the relationship between the male and female dummies -- I ultimately created a narrative using the aforementioned, as well as a dummy head. I used mostly expressive brushstrokes and colour so as to incorporate some movement and action into the still objects. My palette consisted of red, cadmium yellow, magenta, cobalt blue, and white.

Artist: Kayleigh

My painting is called Dinosaur King, I guess. I was inspired by the dominative look of the dinosaur within the still life- that something that was so comparitively small could have such a dramatic presence. I wanted to experiment with brighter colours, so I exclusively used primary blue, red and yellow, with some cadmium yellow and lots of white. Overall, I think the painting looks great- and is a more optimistic portrayal of dominating personas, but I digress.

Artist: Naomi

This painting was an entirely experimental piece, where i explored a method of painting outside of my comfort zone. Although i still don't know how i feel about it, i am proud of the colours involved and would like to pass on that even though you may be unhppy with the end result, or decide to go back to the artistic style you are comfortable with, take all that you can from your detours because sometimes there are valuable skills you may pick up.

Artist: Kelly

 It was my first time to paint still-life in such a huge canvas and it was fairly fun. I tried to create a casual and free style so that the brushstrokes were kind of short and broken. I focus on dealing with the entire colour and construction relationship rather than small details of each objects. I use rich colours in order to show the reflectional colours betweeen the objects.

Han Liu Photography

Hello guys！I'm Han, a 18-year-old boy who is currently study in York Mills C. I.

Here are some of my works that I want share to the Art Council:

Qin: Watercolour= playingwithWATER + havefunwithCOLOUR

Hey there, this is Qin writing (well, my last name became my "pen name" for blogging somehow).
I am one of the heads of the Art Council, currently in grade 12.

This year has been crazy busy, especially for people like Kayleigh (the other head of the council), who has sweated her blood over the School Show (She is the costume exec for the show. Two more showings left. Yeah for her~:).
For me... I am a total nerd: taking 4 sciences plus one math this year, full schedule, no spare. Well, it's actually not bad at all. I enjoy all my courses, and especially the painting class with Kayleigh, Anastasiya, Coco, Kelly, Kristina and Gloria(a few other girls on the council).
For ArtCo, we've been working on our next-year-event, the Costume Show (not gonna get into details)...

Both art class at school and doing art in my spare time delight my life indeed.
Art is indispensable.
lalala...


I'd like to share a few watercolour paintings I did last winter.
These are very Chinese. I know!


It has a Chinese name:


雨巷（Drizzling Allay)
Qin. Watercolour on paper. February, 2011
READ ABOUT THIS @ QIN THEORY

The Lotus
Qin. Watercolour on paper. March, 2011


READ ABOUT THIS @ QINTHEORY















Watercolour is not the material I use the most often, but I LOVE it.
If say acrylic paints seems to be forgiving for the mistakes on canvases, watercolour are not the same at all. But it doesn't mean helpless. I did paint a few stokes I did not want but I blended it with water or surprisingly created something nice out of my mistakes.

If someone professional criticizes me for not using the materials properly, the only answer I would give is "well, I was just playing with it XD."

Just have fun with whatever you are using.
I hope this is the message you get from my post.


If you like my paintings and want to know more about me. You can visit my blog @ http://qintheory.blogspot.com/

STRESS from school has made me an extremely slacking blogger, and as a result, my blog hasn't been updated since September! The loss of my camera (used for taking picture of my visual works) certainly contributes to my absence from Blogger as well.
However, you can take a tour among my old works and my portfolio. It will be lots of fun because I always share my stories behind them:).

That's all.

FOLLOW YM ART COUNCIL.
You are gonna be amazed by the talents.
Keep your eyes OPEN!