Cutting into linoleum blocks, making prints, and layering acrylic and oil paints, AP Drawing students are discovering new mediums to work with. 

“The purpose is to explore new mediums and to involve printmaking and using a different surface and then acrylic and oil paint to learn color theory and to create depth in their paintings,” art teacher Pernie Fallon said. “The students are incorporating their own ideas, but using these techniques. New techniques are just a combinations used in art, such as printmaking, oil painting, acrylic glazing. Usually, these are all used on their own, but we’re combining all three into one singular painting, which is pretty innovative.” 

Senior Luis Ferrari believes attention to detail pays off for this project. 

“There’s a lot of things that come into play, and I’m mainly focusing on abstract due to the fact that it’s black and white and there’s not much going on, but at the same time if you add the right values and dimensions, it can make take a piece from average to a masterpiece,” Ferrari said. “I’m going to do that by adding lots of shading, dimensions, values, and tones. I am currently working on getting the right outline of things and at the same time trying to study the dimensions of the 3D world to get everything to look proportional.” 

Honing in on a conceptual idea, junior Anjali Sutaria hopes to decide on her point of view before she starts painting.  

“For my sustained investigation, I’m thinking of focusing on some environmental impact on the world that hasn’t been discussed and making my investigation about global warming,” she said. “I’m trying to get into the perspective myself, so I want to pick a side and then start drawing. So I want to sketch it out, and then apply colors and all that to it.”