Yangjiayi Li

Honors & AwardsArt & Athletics in sophomore year

Art Spirit Award Coach Award

The Scholastic Art Awards of New Hampshire

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2010, Silver Key

Art Work ShowPart 1: Sketch

After I did graffiti in my childhood, sketching was the first thing I learned about art. Sketching helps me collect and record every interesting things and details in my life. And it enables me to become a better artist.

Part 2: Painting

I enjoy painting, because the types of painting are diversity. I love the colors of the opaque watercolor paintings, and the flowing feelings of watercolor paintings.

Opaque watercolor painting, Still Life

Opaque watercolor painting, Still Life

Acrylic painting, on canvasBlue Flowers The special thing of this one is that I didn’t use brushes, I only used a palette knife. It was a sudden idea came into my mind, and it was really fun to play with a knife.

Watercolor Painting (High concentration)

Part 3: Portrait

This plaster statue drawing took me about eight hours. After I finished it; I felt a sense of achievement.

A portrait of a young model. This is different from the previous one, this took me one and half hour. I learned how to express the feeling of hair and how to draw people’s characteristics.

Part 4: Charcoal & Collage & Color Pencil

Charcoal, Love, IB Art (high level)

This is the first collage I made, Homesick

Color pencil, Dreaming Rose

Part 5: Mixed Media

Painting on the wood. I used black ink, silver and gold markers to create lots of faces on the four pieces of wood. How many faces do you see?

Band-aid Bonnie. This piece is about friendship between my best friend and me. I created a personal icon( as you see the white patterns), and band-aids represent the helps I got from my friend. I love this piece, because using glass can let the audiences see the art work from different views.

Printmaking

An illustration of “The Road Not Taken”

2D Design, Hand TreeThe Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2010, Silver Key

Part 6: PhotographyI never take photography classes before, I just love taking photos. I think it is a good way to record awesome memories.

A telegraph pole, at Brown University

Tunnel, at Brown University

Highway, at China

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