Student Art

With an extended quarantine and summer, art students had extra time to focus on their craft — here is what some of them created.

By Ella Thomas

Art by Cara Spratlin

Cara Spratlin, class of 23, has only been posting on her artistic Instagram account since October 2020 and has gained 410 followers since. With inspiration from her mom, Spratlin dove further into art when she was 12 by taking more art classes at school, focusing on watercolor painting. Spratlin now focuses on typography and lettering, following after her mom, who is a lettering artist and art director for other designers.

Spratlin got an Apple pencil for her birthday in August of 2020 and used it to transition into digital art via the program Procreate. Once she discovered digital art, Spratlin started using Adobe products such as Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop.

After Spratlin received praise for a suicide awareness Instagram post last year, she started an art account. According to Spratlin, the account, @carascoloringbook, shows her art and photography in the hopes of brightening others’ days.

Art by Liam Kille

Portfolio art student Liam Kille, class of 22, took a recent dive into art. Kille did not take any art classes in middle school, but after taking Design Fundamentals freshman year, he was hooked. Now a senior, Kille has found what he hopes to be a career.

Kille’s unique style focuses on cartoon drawings. His most recent endeavor? Animation. According to Kille, anatomy and animation have proved to be the most difficult elements, although he welcomes the challenge. As part of the portfolio class offered at BVN, Kille has also worked on portraits of himself and his friends. Kille Liam

Pictured to the right is a charcoal self portrait by Kille. “I did one [portrait] of my friends in oil pastels and one of myself in Charcoal. I’m very happy with both of them,” Kille said.