When Sanford High School junior Audrey Cote starts an art project, her process is rarely linear.
The ending results, however, speak for themselves. And Cote's excited to show off her work at Sanford High School's Art Show next week.
"I sketch last when you're supposed to do it first," Cote said. "I kind of just throw paint on the canvas, and if it looks good, I'll keep going. My process is definitely sort of backward."
Opening night for the Art Show at the high school is Thursday, May 11, from 5-7 p.m. in the agora. SHS students submit the art. Cote is presenting one of her abstract paintings.
"We were given the idea that we can make an abstract of anything you want," Cote said. "It could be the beach. It could be going on a walk, childhood, anything."
(Abstract art painting by Audrey Cote)
She's hoping that people will see her personality in her work.
"I've always been known as very bubble and very curious," Cote said. "So I kind of want to put that in my art so people can take what they know about me, and see my art and say 'this is what she sees, and this is how she thinks.
Junior Emma Adawadkar is submitting ark work using her skills from Alla Prima. Alla Prima is a popular method of painting where the artist applies paint to the canvas all at once.
"So you have a subject you're looking at and observing, and you're trying to get all of the details in one sitting," Adawadkar said.
Adawadkar had to paint a bowl of fruit in the middle of a table for that project.
(Bowl of fruit on a table painting by Emma Adawadkar)
"I think it was really interesting," she said. "It really allowed me to paint details better and really kind of progress over the course of painting the project."
She's also submitting a painting of a lighthouse she worked diligently on for several weeks.
(Lighthouse painting by Emma Adawadkar)
"The finer details, I really tried to put my all into that," she said. "I definitely try to put my all into my work."
Senior Harper Wood is submitting a sculpture from a project in Ceramics 2, where she had to pick an element from a fairy tale.
"I did little red riding hood," Wood said. "We had to stage it with lighting, and it took maybe a month."
(Little Red Riding Hood sculpture by Harper Wood)
Senior Fayth Hill took inspiration from spirals to put into her sculpture of a coiled vessel.
"The coil vessel usually uses lots of different shapes to build a piece that could be used as a vase," Fayth said.
Hill said she had gotten inspiration for her work from seeing the artwork displayed on the high school walls for quite some time.
"My favorite thing going around this hallway is already seeing everyone's artwork," Hill said. "So I'm excited to see stuff from the past get brought in."
(Vessel sculpture by Harper Wood)