KHS Digital Media Arts

Leslie Bonzella  Gold Key Portfolio  "Crowning Beauty" Art portfolios include 8 different artworks by the student. Only 13 Portfolios were selected in the entire region. Congratulations to our digital media art students for their success at the 2015 Scholastic Art & Writing Regional Awards. The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards is the longest-running, most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in the U.S., and the largest source of scholarships for young artists and writers. The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have an impressive legacy dating back to 1923 and a noteworthy roster of past winners including Andy Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Robert Redford and Joyce Carol Oates. You can see all the regional results at http://www.artmachineinc.org/ We wish the best of luck to our Gold Key winners as their work continues on to the national competition. GOLD KEY Below are the works that earned Gold Keys, the highest level o...

This was a rough sketch i did awhile back for someone to add to their half sleeve and currently sits in my mason portfolio.

I love the idea that artists can integrate nature into their art.  The environment gives the artist an idea, and in turn the artist makes the simple tree or building into something more than it is.  Rather than destroying nature this integration embraces it and uses it to assist with self-expression.  For more examples you can visit  http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/clever-street-art-with-nature/ .

Shepard Fairy is a big street art influence of mine

  I thought this was a very cool photo of cincy. The clouds look amazing and there are so many diffrent colors, makes me realize that I take how beautiful our city is for granted.

        These are the two copies of my illustrator portrait. As you can see, I originally intended to use shades of red for the face. Unfortunately, it came out looking like raw meat. To make it more appealing to the eye, and less repulsive (Kinda looks like her face was removed), i used shades of blue instead. I think most will agree that it's an improvement.

Tommy Helm is one of my favorite tattoo artists. (More info here: http://empirestatestudios.com/our-team/tommy-helm/) I love the concepts of tattoos. The fact that you are putting so much faith in an artist and are so in love with their work that you are willing to permanently put it into your skin. With Tommy everything is so well thought out that he is able to pull off anything. He has no forte, he just simply makes great tattoos. Tommy has won Ink Master season 1 and has his own show, Tattoo Nightmares, both on spike (TV channel). He also has great finesse, being able to do cover up tattoos. Cover-ups are hard to do, due to the fact that you are going over a tattoo that is already there. A tattoo that has some horrible reason to be covered up. The fact that he can replace something that brings so much pain to someone with something so beautiful is awesome. He can tell stories in his ink. All he needs is a tattoo machine and some ink. He will bring life to the tattoos.