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Lathrop High School had sixteen hundred students and the best art teacher I could have hoped for. Norma Sharma emigrated from Austria and brought her European aesthetics and discipline with her. She actually taught: she didn’t just tell us to dabble with this or that, she offered constructive instruction and opened up every opportunity for us to compete with students around Alaska. |
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Norma (my high school art teacher) had us experiment with many different styles and techniques to encourage deeper creativity. This was a contour drawing while only peeking at the paper occasionally (with extra shading) |
I enjoyed winning the State Fair with this piece, but I learned an early lesson about journalistic license when they featured me in the local newspaper and claimed I used all my winnings to buy munchies.(click on picture) |
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I've admired Bill Cosby since I was young. |
Norma slowly focused an upside down image in a projector to teach us how to concentrate on the abstract shapes before the details |
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Alaska All State first place award winner |
Lathrop High School still uses this drawing for their stationery and mascot projects (wrestling mats, mugs, etc.) |
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Pastel |
This is the piece I won the Congressional Art Award for when I was 17 - Reflection (pastel) |
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