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Here is a story about Nora-Endub's art show from the Danville newspaper
I have tried to get the photos onto my blog but haven't succeeded.

Nora Weston says she sees herself as a storyteller.
(Jennifer Brummett photo)
Worn Bricks, by Nora Weston. (Jennifer Brummett photo)
Tuesday April 25, 2006
DHS student's artwork a blend of hand-drawn and digital
By JENNIFER BRUMMETT
jenb@amnews.com
Nora Weston is a storyteller. She is not content to have artistic images that stop inside a frame, she says. Weston likes the art she creates to be part of a larger story, although they also should be able to stand alone.
"I like art to have a point, to know why I'm being told to look at it," explains the 16-year-old, who has her first formal exhibit running currently. "I want to have learned something at the end of it."
She says if she's just made something "pretty," she feels like she's "cheating."
"It's not all that special to so something that's just pretty," Weston notes.
In her artist's statement, Weston says she started drawing when she was little, but didn't do it "seriously, passionately" until she was in eighth grade.
"I mainly drew characters from my head solely for my own amusement," it reads. "I still do this, but now I work more for the amusement of the viewer."

A glance at the works in Weston's exhibit and the accompanying commentary with the works supplies a novel combination of elements and a meticulous attention to detail: sulfite paper; graphite on Bristol paper; line art in pen - or pencil - color in Photoshop Elements. Weston explains Bristol paper is an art paper that is thick and acid-free, "good for graphite. Sulfite paper is good for pencil drawings, she says.
"It's good for blending, but hard to erase on."
Weston does a lot of drawing by hand, she says, by Photoshop Elements enables her to do coloring.
"I never found a mode of coloring I liked," says Weston, who is on the forensics team at Danville High School and takes Art I.
"Photoshop is a good way - it's smooth. ... I like pieces colored in Photoshop."
She likes both black-and-white and color work.
"Black-and-white is very elaborate and detailed," Weston explains. "I usually do color work in Photoshop."
Weston says she draws on a Wacom Graphire tablet, a stylus.
The drawing goes into the computer, she says, and she works on it in Photoshop Elements, software she started with when she wanted to do a comic that ultimately she abandoned.
However, she still wants to get into comic-making, animation and illustration. Jhonen Vasquez is a favorite comic creator, and she reads newspaper comics, a few manga, and several Web comics as well. Vazquez writes "very intricate story lines - not too heavy, not too dramatic, and mostly funny," she says.
Weston also has started another comic recently. "It's figured out in my head," she says.
More of Weston's artwork can be found here.Copyright:The Advocate-Messenger 2006