Narcissa+Haskins

I was wondering ,”What should I do for the fourth quarter project?” I thought so much about this project. My thoughts went form painting another canvas or even sketch a picture. if I really wanted to do something different, but wasn’t sure where I could actually start. Originally, I was going to create a stamp but I realized that I wasn’t enjoying myself. As my thoughts went back to elementary school, I remembered my teacher saying, that art should be fun!! I had to create something, but I knew I had to enjoy the process. Painting is always a joyful, creative process in my artistic quests. I asked my mom for some advise and she reminded of how I always asked to paint on glass. After our conversation, I decided to paint a set of glasses. I purchased the enamel paint, primer and glaze from Michael’s, AC Moore and JoAnn’s, and the glasses were purchased at Target. My design inspiration came form thoughts of summer and a little craft store in Ellicott City, MD where my mother would purchase pretty lemonade pitchers whe n we lived in Columbia,, MD. Those designs reminded me of the countless summers I would spend at the beach with my family. My aunt would always buy crazy plastic cups and bowls. I really liked the look of the cups and bowls and felt like summer would never end as long as we ate and drank from that tableware. At the end of the summer I would take pictures of the tableware as a reminder of those beach trips. Looking at those pictures helped me recreate summer fun and reminisce about the hot summer days when my mom would make pitchers and pitchers of iced cold, fresh squeezed lemonade.



The winter was brutally cold. The snow made moving through the city nearly impossible at times. As, I remained in the house, waiting for the roads to be cleared, thoughts of the times when I attended Elementary School came to my mind. When the snowstorms ended, I used my “required” school supply, during recess at my Elementary School to enjoy the snowy hills on our grounds. Our entire class kept the “required” snow sleds in our class closet for recess the entire winter and we were sent outside to play for hours on a daily basis, as long as, the snow remained on the ground. We were warm and cozy in the classroom and outside. We proudly wore our handmade hats, scarves, mittens, and vests. Our class eagerly participated in our knitting circle three times a week. We always used wool yarn and wooden needles. The males and females in class would knit. Our teachers taught us several stitches and patterns when we sat in our circle. The memories are so special. My artistic vibe is often overshadowed by the business of the day to day role as a student in a Magnet School. The academic rigor requires so much of my attention, that I am not as creative as I desire. I was inspired by my teacher to be “more creative in my expression for art” and I knew this was an opportunity to create smoothing unique. In our world of mass production and technology, I wanted to meld the mediums of technology and handmade art. I used a digital camera to photograph my mother’s hand. The photograph was copied on the flash drive using my laptop, after transferring the picture to the laptop from the digital camera using the USB cord. The flash drive was then plugged into the port on the desk-top computer at FED-EX: Kinko’s, and the picture was printed on shining cardstock to mimic an actual photograph. I knitted the hand-warmer using 3 colors of wool yarn with metal needles. The knit pattern was pearl, knit, and pearl. I also knitted the word “HELLO” on the warmer to great everyone who viewed my artistic presentation. The warmer was attached to the cardstock photograph with pieces of yarn and needle and thread. The photograph was attached to the tri-fold board using staples because of the weight of the warmer. There was a need to anchor the presentation securely. This project has allowed me to demonstrate my individuality and creativity, and it has been most enjoyable. I love living at this time in the universe. Having access to everything life has to offer and still using God-given talents and new gifts learned and enhanced with practice have made my life experiences amazing.

For this project jasmine and I decided to work together .We didn't know where to begin so we said we would do something quite random. The first thought that came into Jasmins mind was, lets paint the canvasses black.Then I said that we should do something completly abstract. We mixed the different paints together and this is our final project. Because we wanted one big painting, we combined our two different, yet very similar canvasses by using a drill provided by Mr. VanK. I was very satisfied with our final product. I would have to say that the paintings represent the goodness and evil in the world. Its symbolic to the fact the in the midst of all of the chaos, there is still light in the corner not to far behind.

Narcissa is exquisite, flavorful, effervescent, international, loving, and intelligent. Her artistic style reflects the depth and breadth of her passions.