Welcome to the second edition of Mendocino Inside Voice’s student art feature. This time, we have pieces and interviews from freshman Willow Jakovac and junior Beyulah Anderson.

Our first piece is an untitled, mixed media piece made by Willow Jakovac. She is a freshman in Mr. Rain’s 2-D Design class, and this piece was made as an assignment. It consists of watercolor with mixed colors of tissue paper and magazine cutouts. Willow says that she’s somewhat happy with how the piece turned out, but that there are some changes she would make if she could redo it. She liked the idea behind it, but thinks that she “could have used the watercolor to shade better, or add more definition to the water.” Also, she says that she made the mistake of outlining with pencil before watercoloring, and she found that she couldn’t erase the outlines later. Despite this, Willow says that she had fun making the art and enjoyed experimenting with the different medias.

Next, we have another untitled piece. This painting is a semi mixed media piece created by Beyulah Anderson. She is a student in Mr. Rain’s 2D Design class, but made this painting at home in her free time.  It began with oil paint, but Beyulah says she didn’t like where it was going, so she “decided to add to it and change it up a bunch.” This included changing to acrylic paints. About the process, Beyulah noted that this style was less realistic than she is normally used to working on, but that it was “a lot of fun to paint,” and that it enabled her to try out a range of fun colors. Now, she says she likes how it looks, but feels that she will add more details in the future.