AP Studio Art classes take their students through both a 2D and 3D experience

Isabelle Chiu

Online Sports Editor

Mira Costa’s Advanced Placement Studio Art class is meant to give art students the freedom to focus on art that they are passionate about. The two different courses students can take are two and three-dimensional design. Students create five pieces over the summer and one per school week, which added together creates a total of 24 pieces. Junior Julia McNeil works in 3D art, as she is creating fashion pieces for her portfolio. Senior Hana Rothner, who is focusing on 2D art, is creating a piece inspired by 1960s photography.

In her second year of AP Studio Art, senior Hana Rothner is focusing on photography for her 2D design portfolio. Last year, she made dresses out of unusual materials such as old books and plastic for the 3D course.

“I wanted to continue at the highest level art class to challenge myself and try out media to expand my artistic abilities,” Rothner said.

Rothner’s concentration, or the section of her portfolio that focuses on a specific theme, will be about old fashioned photos that she will capture. Rothner hopes to imitate the style of photos taken in the 1960s and plans on doing this by using her grandfather’s old film camera.

“I like the idea of making pictures of various time periods,”  Rothner said. “I enjoy the simplicity of it.”

Junior Julia McNeil is the only Costa student compiling a 3D design portfolio for the 2015-16 school year. She is focusing on fashion and will be making clothes for her portfolio. McNeil is inspired to make clothes for individuals that do not fit the standard body types because of her own struggles to find clothes due to her short stature.

“I’m sure this is a problem a lot of other people have,” McNeil said. “When I started making my own clothes, they were tailored perfectly to me and didn’t have to be modified, and I would like to share that with others.”

In her oncentration, she will be focusing on either wedding dresses or clothing from the 1960s.

“As I do it now as part of AP Studio Arts, it would act as a test to see if I would want to spend my life doing it,” McNeil said