October Sky

The piece of art that I have painted depicts the sky during a colorful sunset, and also includes a silhouette of a carousel on the beach in the foreground of the work. The sunset in the painting is at the peak time in regards to the amount of colors that are scattered throughout the sky. I incorporated all of these ideas into my painting due to the fact that they present important concepts in regards to physics phenomena. The emission of light waves from the sun includes the visible light…

Creeping figures slithered out underneath the speckled night sky, not a single fragment outshining the moon at its fullest. Luminescence of the orb created a safe, guiding light for the wandering, yet it exposed them to the other creatures looming in the crevices of the forest. Two small, thin bodies weaved through the trees that surrounded them no matter where they turned. As the rustling of leaves sounded from a distance, tall forms towered over everything under their desolation.…

Long ago, in a dark cold misty cave at night, walked a girl named Sally looking for her dog Coco. She kept on walking looking for her dog because she thought he would have wandered in here then she just kept on walking a then she saw something out of the corner of her eye. Sally started to walk closer to whatever it was. Sally was close enough and the roller coaster seemed to be old, dusty and abandoned. The wood was covered in moss and it was covered in dust and dirt. In the moist misty air,…

woman just out of college working at the Willis Tower on the first floor as a secretary, trying to pay off her college tuition. As Amelia was walking out of her apartment to leave for work she noticed the puffy, gray, rain clouds in the sky. The rain clouds in the sky made Amelia reflect on her weekend. That weekend Amelia had ran the Chicago Marathon and had done really well. Amelia didn’t think she would ever cross the finish line but with the last few feet…

“Firefly is a TV series that talk about the crew of desperate men and women just want to survive and maybe have better lives, but they face constant challenges on the new frontier, such as the Reavers, flesh-eating mongrels who live on the fringes of the universe”(Firefly). In the movies, one of the character name Kaylee, she is smart, lovable, and such a generous person who seems the best in everyone. Kaylee was an exceptional mechanic who had a great passion for machines. She had no…

It was a normal day in the woods, me and my family survived the first wave of aliens that invaded the world. I remember the day like it was yesterday, the huge monster came and attacked anything that made a sound. There was no way that anyone could have prepared or predicted the aliens. Any loud noise was unacceptable and irresponsible in my family. As time went out we have found out what noises are safe and which ones are not. We have figured out how to understand each other by using sign…

It was 3’o clock in the afternoon, as I cross the street I can already see all the people. I can see various groups of girls just as excited as I am. To some is just another hot day by the beach in Atlantic City but to me it’s THE day that I’ve been waiting for over 2 years. Being here meant everything at that moment. I could hear people talking, laughing, smiling, just being happy but I also could hear the loud thumps of the speaker. A few feet from me was a radio station set up playing very…

An iPhone was placed in the hands of Rylee for the first time. An app (Pokemon Go) was uploaded that every person in her school talks about. The location services were turned on, on Rylee’s phone and she saunters around outside by herself for hours. Rylee accumulated her fiftieth Pokemon as she looks up and notices the pitch black viewpoint, she wondered where she was. Nothing but a whistle of the nippy wind was flying by her ear. Rylee continues to walk a little further and she trusts herself…

A mound of black dust lies where a great tree once was. Burnt, hot, and still. The dust flies away, inch by inch, every terrible year. Bones appear on the scorched, dark Earth like new babies being born into a eerie void. Wind howls from left to right, in front of any skinny, hungry person who is surviving, waiting to drop on the floor and die. Not a single inch of water to be seen anywhere, only crimson liquid streaming around it's only crevasse with the blood of the dead ones. A small,…

Asleep on the Raft, by Tim Rollins and Kids of Survival (K.O.S.), is a wonderful piece of artwork that focuses on a page in chapter fifteen from the famous American novel The Adventures Huckleberry Finn, by Missouri author Mark Twain. This image captures one of the many hardships, of one of the main characters in this novel, had to endure on his way to finally being a free man down the Missouri River. Nearly thirty years ago, Tim Rollins started K.O.S. to help kids who struggle with school and…