Niamh's Portfolio

  Final Course Reflection  Write 500-600 words reflecting on your experience this semester.  What did you learn about creativity and your own creative styles? What did you learn about your work habits and the process of completing large projects and how to get work done? What did you learn about working in a group and collaborating? What in the course was difficult and challenged you? What did you enjoy? What was engaging or interesting? How did you grow or change? Think back to the beginning of the semester (legos and drawings and games in class and learning about different creative people) and compare to your final creative manifesto project. What did you learn about yourself as a student and as a person? What might you apply from this class to future classes or future life outside of school?   This semester I learned to embrace new creative styles and I got to enjoy the freedom of allowing my creativity to run wild. I found out that great things come from the smal...

  https://youtu.be/nHxii6QlUZQ Window to the soul My name is Niamh Keating and I am a ninth-grade student at Cheshire Academy. I have lived all around the world and I really enjoy art. This piece is supposed to represent the view of different people. The squares are representative of windows, differently colored and sized because everyone sees things differently. I titled this piece “Window to the Soul” because there is a saying that ‘your eyes are the window to your soul’. This piece is special to me because I've always had trouble drawing eyes, but I feel like I finally got it right this time. This is a mixed media piece of artwork. In this piece, I used watercolor, graphite pencils, and pages from a book. I decided to make the quotes from the pages in the book actually mean something instead of putting random words there. I felt like the quotes draw the audience in rather than just random words. I chose to make all the watercolor squares differently shaped and colored becau...