Friday, February 27, 2009

Victor & Luz's Baby Shower













Special thanks to all those involved in making this happen.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Victor's sketchbook











The students have been busy lately, designing their "Self Collages," using Adobe Photoshop. I hope to have several of those posted next week. In the meantime, I wanted to show some student sketchbook work from the past few weeks.

Victor is a Junior and one of our most promising students. A former gang member, he left this lifestyle behind several years ago and, today, downplays any prior involvements. He has been very active in the anti-gang movement that is being developed within our school (I'll keep you posted on the developments of "A Better KCK" as they occur). Victor is also a new dad. Two weeks ago, his girlfriend (another of my prized students who graduated last year) gave birth to a baby boy.

Victor loves Art and isn't afraid to try new things. Since he's a few days ahead of the class on the current project, and has been badgering me to learn how to use the scanner, I asked him to capture some images from his sketchbook. This was in hopes of having a couple of his Victor Jr. portraits. Unfortunately, he ran out of time.