Nora1990's Comments (38)

I do feel mesmerized by the swirls as my eye travels across this picture, yet I am puzzled by the blue characters -- as if there is a mystery to be solved.

This one is pure fun! Clever to both say "ink" and show ink. Suitable for contemplation.

I like the interplay of shadow and reflection. The slant of the "M" at its top seems to encourage seeing the "M" also as two, side-by-side "A"s and makes the piece captivating.

I like the doodles, too! Well-done. It's almost as if the doodles show what your dog is thinking. More important, this piece reminds me of early abstract paintings, ones by Georges Braque. This year there have been a score of "doodle paintings" which are popular.

Delightful! Tells a story and shows your passion for ice-skating.

I think this piece is really cool. You a nice job swirling around the colors, and you're right it IS mesmerizing. I like the different hues of purple and yellow, I think that's a good touch. I'm super excited to see your future artworks. You did a GREAT job.

I love how you did the reflection and colors in the photo, the way the M slants is very nice and the 3D effect looks very amazing, good job Nora ;D!!

I like how the M is slightly slanted, I would have never thought about that!!

I like the background colors broski!

OOOOOO Thats so COOLL

I think this was a great artwork. You really captured the essence of "An Inky Mess". The highlights are extremely good, and the ink splatter in the background is awesome. Really great job overall.

I think this was a great artwork. You really captured the essence of "An Inky Mess". The highlights are extremely good, and the ink splatter in the background is awesome. Really great job overall.

I think you did a GREAT job on this artwork. You made the M look like it was collapsing or breaking down, and I think that was a nice touch. You also had all the elements that made it look the same and different from everyone one else's. I can't wait to see the rest of your artworks this year.

I really like how you did the M with the slanted tips!

I really like how the M is slightly sinking and I like the use of the gradient, the shadow really makes it pop up and gives it depth. Over all love the design and the use of the gradient.

I liked this "Beaming Heart" and especially Nora's description of how she composed it and of her honest and heartfelt explanation that "I did not really know what I was doing, and the more I tried the app out, the more I figured it out, [the more] I was happy with [it]." That's exactly what artists do! I was intrigued by the light green, scattered arrangement below the heart and impressed by learning it was a green shirt. Perhaps most eye-catching were the palpable, gossamer, halo-like streams of light emanating from the heart -- what a glorious effect! Great explanation of how you achieved the glowing heart by using a timer on your cell phone -- ingenious! --Grandpa -- Dan

Impressive installation art! It achieves Nora's intention to convey happiness by using bright colors, patterns, and animals. You easily can find yourself looking again and again at the artwork to discover its many elements. Nora's revealing statement that "I just started putting paper in places that I thought looked good" is the essence of modernernistic art. Keep going strong, Nora! --Grandpa -- Dan

This one, "Zendoodle," and the previous "Happy Swan" caught my attention. It is provocative and mysterious. Zendoodle reminded me of work by Paul Klee, his style of artwork, although his art always was in color. I wonder what Zebdoodle would look like in color. I also was reminded of Klee's art by Nora's "Sleep" and her "Lady in the Light." His "Fire at Full Moon," or any of his "Squares" like "On the Refrain." Maybe do a Google for "Klee art images" or "Klee Squares" to see his art, perhaps be inspired by the images. --Grandpa -- Dan

This one and the subsequent Happy Swan installation mark something of a departure for this young artist, an expansion of her creative possibilities. Here with Warm Fire a combination of skills are on display: photography, collage, symmetry, balance. Four similarly-sized rectangles form the perimeter of the artwork. This draws attention to the center image. At first I thought the lower right image was of the sun. The artwork exhibits a good sense of composition. --Grandpa -- Dan

Whimsical and fun! Interesting contrast of the very plain background with the added-on overlays of color which seem to say: Here is a creative portrait of a young girl, evocative of her imagination (the cascade of many colors), what she loves (flowers and My Little Pony), and what she hopes for herself (the crown). -- Dan

Yes, fear the big, fluffy dress! I definitely see the resemblance to Edvard Munch, especially in the face -- the shape of the head, the exaggerated eyes, the absence of a mouth. The dress appears a burden, too solid, too immobile, hanging heavy onto a waist too-small to support the dress. The mirror is an interesting addition. No reflection? Maybe indicates reluctance to view wearing the dress, maybe symbolic of a void which adds to the sense of unease. Well done! -- Dan

Wow! Sad, happy, angry, warm. A lot going on here. Very expressive. -- Dan

I was taken by your "colored pencil techniques, and blended the colored pencils with water" to create outer space. Especially your use of pink/red to add a bit of light and warmth to outer space. My eye is drawn to two items: The sun dominates, but you enlarged Saturn, the most beautiful plant, so that it is bigger even than Jupiter, the largest planet. Beauty triumphs. Second, only Earth has detail and it is evocatively central to the scene. Earth is special. -- Dan

A flower, yes; but more than that as evidenced by the artwork's allusive title, "Center of mind." Center of Mind, the central circle, from which radiate the veins of thought, pulsing and branching out, expanding, growing, and enlarging the "flower" and its intensity of color, beauty, and life, as conveyed by the flower of thought's bursting past the confines of the canvas, stretching past the contrasting black of the background, dominating and covering over the nothingness of the black -- the growth of a mind. Very interesting. -- Dan

An intriguing quintet of figures, ingeniously posed to convey movement, while at the same time contrastingly static, immobile, frozen, as are the photos adorning the figures. The five figures demand to be recognized as a set which combines and juxtaposes the imagined world of motion with the real-world solidity of the actual, perhaps a metaphor of flights-of-fancy (the skaters) moving through and clothed by the skater's everyday existence (the pictured scenes). Truly interesting. -- Dan

Attention centers on the Gauguin-like face first, because of its framing by the background, perhaps window frames, perhaps other framed artwork; second, because of the framing of the face by the dark color of the hair. Both pull the eye to the centrality of the face, which strikes me as pensive and evocative of sensing something timeless. -- Dan

A sketch of hope: flowers from ashes. -- Dan

I was taken by the composition: Brown on-ground leaves leading the eye to the brown bars of your background climber, but then pushed out by the teal bars to a wider look encompassing the brown of the tree trunk, both of which -- brown tree trunk and teal bars -- then compete for the viewer's attention. -- Dan

Fascinating exercise! The shading of the figures is superb, both in intensity and strokes. Involving and evolving use of colors, both with the balls and the background. -- Dan

Nora --- Now this one is masterful and reminds me of how abstract artists like Picasso or Braque first started to break out of representative art and into audacious experiments with line, curve, and color. The title you gave it, "Lady in the light," made me think, made me work to see the lady whose face and neck eventually do appear to my eye, but which are abstracted into a marvelous tangle of colorful and mesmerizing interlocking scales or overlayered flower petals. --Grandpa -- Dan

Nora --- This one, colorful and exuberant, reminded me of a line from one of my favorite poets, e. e. cummings, "here is the deepest secret nobody knows... i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)" --Grandpa -- Dan

Nora --- This one caught my eye right away, half a fly, creating an impression of movement in the static object of the fly, as if your camera caught the tail-end of the fly as it zoomed away. --Grandpa -- Dan

Nora --- This is a striking photo! Intriguing and challenging. I enjoyed reading your comments about how you constructed the scene to obtain its powerful impact. --Grandpa -- Dan

Nora --- I liked your arrangement of the pieces on the paper and especially your self-critique that you felt you could have done better on filling up more of the space on the paper. --Grandpa -- Dan

I did not know you were into photography, Nora. You are very talented. I very much liked the way you staged this one. --Grandpa -- Dan

This is so pretty, Nora ?? -- Jen

What a cool picture! -- Jen

I really like this one. -- Jen