2022-2023 Bursary Winner
Sky Berfelz
Our 2022-2023 Student Bursary Winner is Sky Berfelz who attended Walkerton District School. Sky has a passion for wildlife, the sciences, and the arts, Sky has applied to post-secondary school and has been accepted at the University of Guelph to study Marine Biology.
Descriptions for Submitted Images
Image 1: Summative - Fishing is one of my hobbies outside of school and carving is an art form I have had a little experience in so I decided to put them together for this project. This was such an open assignment to work on, I would love to do another fish in the future as this one was so fun to make. This project took about 40 hours to complete and was made using balsa wood and acrylic paint.
Image 2: Anatomy - Because the previous project was also a skeleton project that I did a human skeleton for, I wanted to switch it up and do the skeleton of an animal. I picked a turtle skeleton because of how interesting and almost alien the turtle skeleton looks. This was a project I thoroughly enjoyed because I got to choose many aspects of this piece. I used charcoal on paper for this project.
Image 3: Surrealism - Surrealism was one of my favourite art styles because of the weird, mathematical, oddly dream like appearance. I chose to do a print of Escher’s because of the intricate detail that was hard to reproduce. I’ve always found animals to be one of the hardest things to draw but the most rewarding if I did it correctly and this was no exception. This piece is made of graphite on paper.
Image 4: Oil - Making Salvador Dali was very time consuming and tedious but overall a great experience. This project was made very hard by choosing to do so many hard edges with oil paints, but required much less blending like a normal oil painting would take. Another great aspect to this project was learning to stretch my own canvas which I have never done before. This project is oil paint on Canvas.
Image 5: Ink Drawing - The kill the pen project is probably the most time consuming art piece I’ve ever done, but ended up very nice in the end. Pen being near impossible to erase made this project very tedious but also led to learning ways around the inevitable mistakes, one being to start light and slowly work the lines until there dark enough or shadows until shaded enough. This piece is made from 1 Bic pen on Bristol board.
Image 1: Summative - Fishing is one of my hobbies outside of school and carving is an art form I have had a little experience in so I decided to put them together for this project. This was such an open assignment to work on, I would love to do another fish in the future as this one was so fun to make. This project took about 40 hours to complete and was made using balsa wood and acrylic paint.
Image 2: Anatomy - Because the previous project was also a skeleton project that I did a human skeleton for, I wanted to switch it up and do the skeleton of an animal. I picked a turtle skeleton because of how interesting and almost alien the turtle skeleton looks. This was a project I thoroughly enjoyed because I got to choose many aspects of this piece. I used charcoal on paper for this project.
Image 3: Surrealism - Surrealism was one of my favourite art styles because of the weird, mathematical, oddly dream like appearance. I chose to do a print of Escher’s because of the intricate detail that was hard to reproduce. I’ve always found animals to be one of the hardest things to draw but the most rewarding if I did it correctly and this was no exception. This piece is made of graphite on paper.
Image 4: Oil - Making Salvador Dali was very time consuming and tedious but overall a great experience. This project was made very hard by choosing to do so many hard edges with oil paints, but required much less blending like a normal oil painting would take. Another great aspect to this project was learning to stretch my own canvas which I have never done before. This project is oil paint on Canvas.
Image 5: Ink Drawing - The kill the pen project is probably the most time consuming art piece I’ve ever done, but ended up very nice in the end. Pen being near impossible to erase made this project very tedious but also led to learning ways around the inevitable mistakes, one being to start light and slowly work the lines until there dark enough or shadows until shaded enough. This piece is made from 1 Bic pen on Bristol board.
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