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Illustrate Magazine
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© 2017 Byanca Young. All rights reserved.
Illustrate Magazine
A culmination of the talent and artistry in the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics' community and beyond. Issue 01 November 2017 Vancouver, Washington Editor: Byanca Young Advisors: Abby Harris and Crystal Zeller issuu.com/illustratemagazine byancayoung@gmail.com Illustrate Magazine does not claim ownership of the user submitted content and to the full extent permitted by law, shall have no obligation or liability of any kind, including without limitation errors, omissions, or damages, with respect to the user submitted content. All user submitted content was published with the permission of the creator of the content. All rights to the user submitted content remains with the creator of the content.
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tor's Note Welcome to the first issue of Illustrate Magazine. This first issue is a culmination of my time at VSAA as an artist, and hopes to showcase the amazing talent hidden away in our studios. I hope as the magazine grows and changes it will represent all 'levels' of artistry in our community and beyond, allowing young and established artists alike to be recognized. Finally I hope this collective will inspire you to create and to keep creating. Thank you for reading Illustrate Magazine. -Byanca Young Editor
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Mami Silva
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How did you do it? I set the camera on a rock to prop it up, placed on the ground and started walking across the street. In the second photo my camera was in a mail box. I used the self timer to take photos of myself and accidentally added white boarders. I liked it, I started messing with the color and I liked that too. It was really all spontaneous, nothing was planned
Why did you do it? Nothing was coming to me and I was so bored. I take photos every night and this night the sunset wasn’t very pretty. I started messing around with the self timer and I took some photos I thought were pretty mediocre. The next day I was just playing in photoshop and some cool photos were born. It was really just all for fun and came out to be really cool. 11
Sophie Oakley What did you do? I used a thin black pen to draw a semi-realistic composition of wild strawberries. I used markers similar to Copic markers for the color, and then pasted on triangular watercolor cut outs to fill the background.
How did you do it? After adding color to my piece, I was unhappy with the background, so I used an x-acto knife to cut out triangles of various sizes and I pasted them onto the background to fill the space. Then I drew smaller versions of the wild strawberries, cut them out, and pasted them onto the background to add interest and create cohesion.
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Lip Licious
Cat Salazar How did you do it? I thought about what I was interested in the most and then thought how would I put them into an art project.
Why did you do it? The first art piece I carved out melting lips and turned it into a stamp. The second art piece I looked at a lot of Jim Carreys art and then drew a melting girl and filled it all in with water color. With my last art piece I thought about today’s society and how a lot teens and blinded from art. So I drew a black and white girl with a colored background.
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Melting Beauty
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Maeve Gribble Orange Sherbert
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Blue 21
Magenta Confetti
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Ava Cummins Here
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Julia Worden What did you do? I made 2 trading cards that show the art elements shape and color.
How did you do it? For my shape card, I drew a design inspired by simple video game graphics, then went over the lines with pen. I colored it with watercolor. My color card was made with pen and markers.
Shape Trading Card
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What's in the Gallery?
Oct 11 - Nov 17
Figures and Flowers is an exhibition of painitngs by Lesley Faulds and her daughter, Kelsey Birsa. The show highlights both artist's interests in depicting the human form as well as their influence each on each other. Through critiques, sharing techniques, talking about ideas, or sub concious influence, each artist is effected by the other. Kelsey obsesses over her paintings the way we obsess over our own bodies. She is interested in the psychology and philosophy of the mind and body and uses her work to connect to her own body. Her current work explores introspective instances of self consciousness and the connection, or disconnection, that we feel with our physical selves. While Kelsey is interested in the internal connection with the body, Lesley gravitates to the external expressions and interactions with people. She enjoys the play between realism and flatness that she can acheive with clasical painting techniques and mixed media. Both artists equate flowers to the body in their form and skinlike texture.
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Lesley Faulds Lesley Faulds was born in england in 1955 and immigrated to America in 1977. She is a retired RN having specialized in psychiatric care and art therapy. Her initial foray into art began in acrylics and grew to an interest in vistas and landscapes. More recently she has focused on large format portraits and figure works. Lesley is the recipient of awards from the Southern Washington Artists such as 2nd place and honorable mention in acrylic medium. Her work has been exhibited locally at the Artist Loft and Boomerang.
www.lesleyfaulds.com www.artistloftvancouver.com
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Kelsey Birsa Kelsey Birsa is an artist living in Portland, Oregon. She recently graduated with a BFA in art Practices from Portland State University. Kelsey is the recipient of awards and scholarships such as The Artist Magazine Student Portrait Competition and the PSU Lucille Welch Scholarship. Her work has been exhibited locally at Gallery 360, Blackfish Gallery, Littman and White Gallery, in the Lewis and Clark Gender Symposium and published in Beacon Magazine, Pathos, and The Artist Magazine.
www.kelseybirsa.com Instagram: @kelseybirsa
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Olivia Rankin Fire
What did you do? I used the basic colors with fire (red, orange, and created an abstract tion of what fire looks
associated yellow, gold) representalike to me.
How did you do it? I used very little paint on my brush to create a translucent look through the paint in order to see the black background. I also used a crumpled paper towel to pick up some of the wet paint.
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Jaelen Sandoval Cosmos and Butterflys
How did you do it? I took a picture off of my phone.
Why did you do it? I honestly don't really know, I just saw these plants and I thought that they were pretty cool and I took a picture of them.
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Cassidy Gault Snuffles
What did you do? I took my little sister's drawing, and made a 3D posebale creature with a moveable jaw.
How did you do it? First I created a polymer clay head and paws then I made a wire armature then wrapped it with quilt stuffing, later I added faux fur and airbrushed the detailes and markings.
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A r t Club Every Tuesday Enrichment A In the VA room (201)
E-Paul Chan Eternal Bliss
What did you do? I created a blue monochromatic drip painting that interprets how as humans, we have an unsatisfied desire of obtaining true happiness, however in actuality, what we want to pursue is eternal happiness. We can find happiness everyday in our lives but it never lasts, and it's that never-ending desire that can't be satisfied.
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What did you do? Basically, these are all just some of the nicer pages of sketches compared to most in my sketchbook.
Yukim Nomo
oto Aqua Soldier Pew Pew
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Cheap Pen Portraits
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Lily Engblom-
The Weight of Playing
-Stryker Why did you do it? I did the scale to show the effect of visual weight for the theme of Balance. I love doing pieces stripped down to the bare minimal to get a point across and working with a small Peice of paper really helped in doing that! I also really enjoy doing slightly creepier drawings!
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Mia Maggio
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Jaden Bentow Beauty
Why did you do it? I drew this picture cause I felt like trying out a different figuration of the general profile that most people draw and decided to go for a more posed figure.
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Bridgetown
Ryan Bittner On the Cover
What did you do? Fictional scenery and environments.
How did you do it? Adobe Photoshop (digital media)
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Sci-fi Streets
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Sci-fi Spaceport 61
Byanca Young Hands to Abstraction
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