This post is a collaboration among Emma, her friends, and their teacher, Renee Vaiano. The drawings are by the amazing Emma.
Emma is a sixth grade student from Garden City, New York. Emma has always enjoyed expressing herself through creating art, specifically digital art. Emma was recently introduced to Shapegrams in her STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) class. When asked about how she makes such creative artwork using the Shapegrams format, she said, “I love playing around with all of the different shapes and colors to create something completely new.”
Emma’s most recent inspiration comes from themes in her everyday life. She loves holidays, especially Chinese new year. Covid really changed everything for Emma. “Usually there is a parade in Chinatown for Chinese New Year, and my family has their own lion dance group that performs in the parade. There’s confetti and poppers that people throw at the parade to celebrate.”
This year, Emma wasn’t able to attend the parade because of Covid. This didn’t stop her from celebrating in her own unique way. Emma created a drawing in honor of Chinese New Year and her family’s traditional lion dance performance in the parade. “This dance represents scaring away the evil spirits for the new year.” Her depiction will have to keep away the evil spirits until next year when her family can return to the parade safely and celebrate once again.
26 thoughts on “Meet Emma, Inspiring Digital Artist”
Wow! wow! wow! Emma! These drawings are so amazing! I am blown away by your creativity. Each one of the drawings are so different and complex, but the colors and composition are so nicely balanced and has so much depth. My favorite is the coy fish, it has so many layers and colors, but everything on the page is laid out perfectly. You are so talented! I hope you continue to create beautiful drawings.
I also love the depth shown with the lily pads on the surface and the fish swimming beneath. Surprisingly delicate work displayed throughout!
Emma,
These drawings are awesome! We are so proud of you. We love seeing your creative juices flowing. Can’t wait to see more.
These are phenomenal!!! Absolutely beautiful art work! You are so talented Emma!
I love your use of color, Emma! Can’t wait to see more. We’ll done, you!
Amazing artwork Emma! Really love your Chinese New Year drawing! The confetti makes me feel like I’m right there celebrating with you. Can’t wait to see more drawings of yours in the future. Keep up the great work!
Awesome work, Emma! Love the koi pond and Chinese New Year illustrations. Looking forward to seeing more of your work.
Good job Emma love the art work you are so talented and creative I especially like the Chinese New Year drawing
Hey Emma!
I‘m really fascinated by your artwork! They inspire me very much. Keep up the good work 👍
Emma! These are absolutely brilliant! You are incredibly talented and should be SO proud of yourself! I can’t wait to see more of your beautiful art!
Phenomenal work Emma, it looks like you have a bright future!
Keep putting in the work and remember there is no right and wrong in art, its all about your vision! Have faith in your abilities!
Emma! Your artwork is so creative! You are so talented. Keep up the awesome work! Looking forward to seeing more of your creativity.
Wow, Emma! You are so talented! Lovely artwork. They are all so unique and creative. Keep up the great work and can’t wait to see more!!!
Stunning pictures Emma! The way in which you capture things from your environment… all the tiny details and the subtle colors you chose… just Marvelous! A great thumps-up 👍 all the way from Austria 💝
Congratulations Emma! These are fantastic ❤️ I’m partial to the Chinese New Year one of course but they are all great. Keep up the creativity.
Emma your artwork is awesome!! I’m sure you’re multi talented but you should definitely pursue this art. Love the cloud with classes cause it reminds me of you!! Keep up the great work!
Wow Emma!! Great job there. Congratulations on a job well done. I liked how I could identify with the holiday spirit depicted in the images and I LOVED the planets and the “road” that ran through the frame, it made it feel multi-dimensional; and I also had a lot of fun imagining the different possibilities of energy flow through those “tubes”. Thanks for taking me on your little trip, it was really enjoyable. So good to see you blossom in this creative and beautiful way!
What great work, Emma! Congratulations!!!!
This is such fantastic work, Emma! I love how you used layers and the different connections and possibilities you noticed within and among the shapes. I can’t wait to see what you make next!
So proud of you Emma!!! I love your use of colors and contrast and playing with the shapes to create different layering effects!! Especially love the Chinese New Year artworks.. I can sense your joy when looking at them and that’s the power of a creative mind.. being able to transfer these emotions to the viewer when they see your artwork!! Looks like you have a great talent that has been discovered so make sure you embrace it!! You’re so creative! Love it!!
Beautiful work Emma!! Such a creative eye and mind at such a young age. You’re bound for greatness!!
These are so unique! Transferring the traditional mediums to a digital platform. Truly creative for such a young person! Well done Emma. You will have a bright future!
Simply Magnificent! Loving your creativity. Keep creating uniqueness.
Emma, I love some of your drawings. You use some wonderful color combinations and have some excellent detail too! I think the confetti that you made is awesome. Keep up with the creativeness.
I love the Shapegrams Emma! I’m in 5th grade and I make a lot of shapegrams too! My computer teacher has us do them.
this is pretty artwork!!! l love it!