2015-05-28

【Aiden in English】

        The Art Show at the North Penn High School is really something worth going to. The halls of the school are transformed from a learning facility into an art museum, and I’m telling you that we have a lot of talented students across all grades. 

        Now, I’m not gonna talk about my piece of art work because I don’t consider it one. How did my name-tag enter an art show? It was probably because I drew it spending a little more effort than the rest. But seriously, I’m talking on a stage of paintings, sculptures, and artworks that could be sold with actual money. This event showed many of the future classes that we, as North Penn Students, can take in the upcoming years. Scattered artists around the building of variety of skill sets were demonstrating their strongest suit. I’m talking about the best of the best like paints, sketches, clay potteries, animations, and everything. However my largest thing today I learned would be from the artwork I saw.

        I lost interest in art long time ago. Yet for some reason, I remain as a top drawer in my grade. But some serious talent was in the making at my age, and this was the perfect opportunity to up my game. What I loved about this year’s art show was there were many nature and realistic pictures. The reason behind it was that realistic art work was my strong card, but anime characters were a class second. For one, I learned to add a light blue into the background for scenic pictures. This tint was a shade that defined distance, emphasizing the horizon line. It was a very key element I was missing in some of my art works. One sketch in my art class was on a mountain range, and the main mountain looked fine to me. It’s just that the other mountains looked kind of… weird. It’s a feeling that I had when I didn’t like something. Now I got it. But today’s lessons don’t just stop there. When drawing a reflection on water, the colors need a more diluted tint as if there was real water on the color pencil or paint. It’ll be easier for painting since you just need to add more water to the mixing tray, but I’ll need to be extremely selective with my colors from other stencils.

        Looking at other art works better than mine can really be a learning opportunity. It seems like life. Learning from others more successful at it and learn or follow.

【紅霞譯文】

        觀摩水平比自己高超的藝術作品其實就是一次學習過程，如同日常生活一樣，只有取人之長補己之短，才能完善自身。

        在北賓州高中舉行的藝術展確實值得一看，平常讀書學習的場所一下子變成了藝術博物館，用我的話來說，這一切與許許多多中小學生的聰明才智分不開來。

        眼下我並非想談論本人的藝術作品，因為它沒有什麼藝術成分，天曉得自己塗鴉的名字掛牌為何入選？也許因為我比別人多下了點功夫，但憑心而論，我覺得會場上展出的繪畫、雕塑等藝術作品甚至帶有經濟價值，為我們北賓州後面幾屆學生做出了榜樣。分布在展覽大廳各個角落的藝術家現場為來賓表演了拿手好戲，在寫生、素描、泥塑、動漫各個方面令人大開眼界，當然，我最大的收穫無疑源自親眼所見的藝術作品。

        很久以前我早已對藝術失去了興趣，不知怎麼搞的，本人的繪畫水平卻仍然名列本年級前茅，不過那些極富潛力的同伴盡顯身手，為我提供了一次絕佳學習機會。我之所以欣賞今年的展覽，不能不歸功於許多作品自然逼真，而寫實的確是我的強項，其次還有動漫人物。首先我學到了如何給風景畫塗抹淡藍色背景，靠陰影來反映距離，藉以突出水平線，這正是我在畫畫中所忽略的基本要點。圖畫課上畫過一幅山脈，對我來說，展示主峰不成問題，但表現其它群山就顯得……彆扭，弱點暴露無遺，現在我知道該怎麼做了。另外還有一點就是，當畫水面反光的時候，無論水彩畫或素描，切記顏色要淡，其實做起來也比較容易，只要在調色板上多加上一點水就成，不過我倒更需從其它繪畫技巧中把握顏料的着色。