Troy eCampus  T5 -'08 Student Art Projects
Gayle L. Nelson, Instructor

ART1133 PROJECTS
COLEMAN - Pencil

Pencil Project   By: CSM Arthur Coleman Jr.
"From my artwork I chose the prosperity of the country of Afghanistan.  I’ve literally watched this country grow from the ruins of poverty, to shops being open, kids being able to go to school, and a country picking itself up and moving on.  But, I’m also a realist.  This couldn’t have been done without the United States assistance and the US Military deeply involved.  When you look at the drawing I attempted to capture where Afghanistan has come from and where it is going.  From a country that has known wars all its existence, from a country being the foundation of 9/11, from the United States getting involved, to where we are today.  Which if you have to say what is a success story, this is one without question.  There is success at the end of each RAINBOW."
JETT - Pop Art Pet WHITE - Pop Art MERIWEATHER - Pop Art
CROCE - Pop Art
GRIFFITH - Pop Art HUMPHRIES - Pop Art SNOW - Pop Art
J STOKES - Starry Night HAMPTON - Starry Night INGRAM - Starry Night
YOUNG - Starry Night RAY - Starry Night WOLF - Starry Night
MILLER - Starry Night BERRY - Starry Night EALY - Starry Night
KARP - Starry Night

“Starry Night” Project  
By: Michael Karp
I chose the Starry Night concept for my project.  The reason it appealed to me is because of the versatility of the original piece.  It’s simplicity  lends itself to become morphed easily to the recreator’s  vision.  “Starry Night” became my “Burnt Skies over the Desert”.   The theme is an expression of how a combat soldier never really comes home.  Behind the soldier is a village that he helped assault and occupy.  It’s the shame, pride,  experience, and the overwhelming influence it has on that soldier that causes him to morph. Two things have happened to the soldier in this piece.  One, he sees himself as a monster, and so his inward vision of himself is what he has become on the outside.  His head is bowed low in shame, and also avoidance.  He does not feel the need to explain himself to a society that believes he is their servant, and moreover the servant of consumerism.  The second thing that is happening is that he is becoming part of the land he fights on, no matter how foreign.  The image is showing that no matter what happens for the rest of his life, the desert sands will now encompass his being.  The different shades of blue in the sky were used to signify that the closer we get to the heavens, the more pure the air.  At the ground level we scorch the skies and make them dark with soot, but we cannot reach the moon and stars with our fire. 

OWENS - Starry Night LAFERTE - Starry Night MORGAN - Starry Night
LEWIS - Starry Night BUSH - Starry Night ADAMS - Starry Night
A RAY- Starry Night ROYAL - Van Gogh MILLER - Van Gogh
JONES - Ergonomic Egg BARGE - Ergonomic Egg PATTERSON - Ergonomic Egg
BILAL-LANS - Wire Sculpture STOKES - Wire Sculpture HAYWARD - Wire Sculpture
GLASS - Van Gogh V RAY- Chalk Vermeer DUNN - Printmaking
JOHNSON - Shape and Substance BELL- Shape and Substance ZIMMERMAN - Photography
KEOUGH - Mixed Media SEAY - Visual Analogs ESTEVES - Visual Analogs
DABNEY - Starry Night ROBERTSON - Toy Design McBRIDE - Toy Design

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