Young ARTIST - Brief Article

Arts & Activities, May, 2001 by Caitlin Kaiser

Even as a first-grade student at Phoenix Day School for the Deaf, I knew I wanted to be an artist. Learning to talk was hard, but creating pictures was easy and natural. My mother says she could tell I was born to be an artist by the detail in my first-and second-grade pictures.

My early artistic attempts were in crayon. Then I moved on to colored markers and watercolors. Now I'm in a stage where I prefer pen and ink or just pencil. As a member of my school's yearbook staff, I designed our yearbook's cover ("The Bulldogs") in pen and ink. I also love ceramics; shaping the clay and painting the finished product are very enjoyable.

My future career, I hope, [will be] as a graphic artist. I enjoy seeing the scanned art work of my Internet friends and would like to use a scanner myself. In summer school I took several classes in Web-page design and loved them.

Caitlin Kaiser, Grade 8 Pueblo Middle School Tempe, Arizona Linda Rocks, Art Teacher