Watercolor is a challenging medium and requires patience and willingness to go with the flow. To help the students have a direction for their paintings they each selected two photos they had taken for the subject matter. As a class, we shared their photos in a clique to select the ones that were most compositionally interesting and would work well with the look of watercolor.
The students tested out different watercolor techniques before creating their paintings to figure out how to best recreate their landscapes. The paintings came out beautiful and the students were excited about their success with this challenging medium. |
The Advanced Studio Art Class created a project over the course of 30 days that helped students with their Social Emotional Learning. Each day as the students came into class they selected a colored piece of paper that they felt reflected their mood or how they were feeling that day. Once they were at their tables, they drew a shape on the paper that would count to reflect how they were feeling. This activity allowed all students to have the time to take a moment and focus on their day, emotions and proved a small but important opportunity for them to communicate non-verbally.
After 30 days the students took all of their cut-outs and collaged them to create a final work of art. Each piece was different from the rest and as the students worked they talked to each other about how they felt when creating each small cut out. |
Students needed to create a composition made from images that they collected and found intriguing. The students looked at Surrealist artist's work for inspiration and ideas on how to put images together that don't make sense.
Surrealist artists were interested in the mind and the dream world, the art was usually painted with so much detail it could be a photo. The subject matter did not seem to go together and usually had hidden messages. The class looked at the work of Max Ernst, Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Dorothea Tanning, René Magritte, and Kay Sage. Once their collages were made, then they needed to figure out how to take full color and value images and make them into only black and white (check out the tracing paper). This is no easy task, students spent time problem-solving and mapping out their composition. After carefully planning, the intricate cutting began, and all students were dedicated which led to the creation of this amazing work. |
To get back in the habit of looking and drawing from observation, each student created a composition using silk flowers. The students tried to select flowers of different sizes and shapes to add contrast to their compositions.
The students then used contour lines to depict the flowers. Contour lines are smooth lines of varying thicknesses that should show the smallest inside details and precise outer edges of the subject matter. It may sound easy, but requires a great deal of focus. Drawing with contour lines helps students make confident marks, and not guess or make up information. Check out the drawings below by clicking on them to see the detail, varying line thickness, and each student's creativity. |
Thank you to the Greenville Education Foundation for the bookmaking kits. Bookmaking requires several different materials and tools, therefore a kit is the best way to get everything that is needed to make a book. The Greenville Education Foundation was extremely generous and purchased enough for every student in the upper-level classes to make a book. The students enjoyed the experience of learning a new art skill and have a usable end product. Many students stated using them as sketch books right away.
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There are tons of artists that are currently making art work around the world, to learn about more artist then we study in class each student was able to look through current magazines, art books and the internet to find an artist they wanted to learn more about and share with the class. The students created a presentation with the information they found about the artist and they created a work of art that was inspired by the artist they selected.
This project allowed the students to research and learn about artists that they were curious about and see how the artists fit into the world that we live in today. On top of that, students were able to experiment with new ideas, mediums and p |
Students needed to create a composition made from images that they collected and found intriguing. The students looked at Surrealist artist work for inspiration and ideas on how to put images together that don't make sense.
Surrealist artists were interested in the mind and the dream world, the art was usually painted with so much detail it could be a photo. The subject matter did not seem to go together and usually had hidden messages. The class looked at the work of Max Ernst, Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Dorothea Tanning, René Magritte and Kay Sage. Once their collages were made, then they needed to figure out how to take full color and value images and make them into only black and white (check out the tracing paper). This is no easy task, students spent time problem solving and mapping out their composition. After carefully planning, the intricate cutting began, and all student were dedicated which led to the creation of this amazing work. |
By Emma Cardamone
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How can an artwork be made? We know that we need the elements of art (line, shape, space, color, value, texture, and possibly form), but how can that be changed up?
After looking at the artwork by Jason Markow, students needed to come up with a creative way to show images created only from different text. They could use song lyrics, a poem, segments from a story or article, or anything that they would like to explore. Next, students needed to create the image that the text would make up. This project helped students plan, understand proportions, and think in a new way about art making. Some questions students needed to ask themselves were: What will your text create? Will it be easy to read, or is the final image more important than the words that make it up? Will you use color or just value? Will all your text be in the same font? What medium will you use? How will your image and text fill the page? What are you saying to your audience with the text you have selected and how you have chosen to represent it? |
Takashi Murakami
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The class studied the work of contemporary artist Takashi Murakami. He works with several different mediums and combines pop culture images and historical and tradtional Japanese art work. Takashi Murakami uses his work to tell stories or events that he had experienced. The students needed to use a tradtional Murakami's use of mix media and pop culture as a jumping off point.
Students were able to experiment with many mediums such as watercolor, colored pencils, acrylic paint, Sharpie, and cut paper. All students made artwork that they were excited about due to the material variety and the ability to link thier artwork to the every day world around them. |
Looking at other artists is a great way to be inspired to make your own artwork. For this project the class looked at three different contemporary artist: Paul Morrison, Judy Phaff and Lane Twitchell. Each student selected one of the artists to inspire their work of art, they could use a similar style of working, similar subject matter or medium.
Continuing with the work they had made throughout the course, the students needed to have a concept or message communicated through their artwork. |
There are tons of artists that are currently making art work around the world, to learn about more artist then we study in class each student was able to look through current magazines, art books and the internet to find an artist they wanted to learn more about and share with the class. The students created a presentation with the information they found about the artist and they created a work of art that was inspired by the artist they selected.
This project allowed the students to research and learn about artists that they were curious about and see how the artists fit into the world that we live in today. On top of that, students were able to experiment with new ideas, mediums and processes. |
How can an image be made? We know that we need the elements of art (line, shape, space, color, value, texture, and possibly form), but how can that be changed up?
After looking at the artwork by Jason Markow, students needed to come up with a creative way to show images created only from different text. They could use song lyrics, a poem, segments from a story or article, or anything that they would like to explore. Next, students needed to create the image that the text would make up. This project helped students plan, understand proportions, and think in a new way about art making. Some questions students needed to ask themselves were: What will your text create? Will it be easy to read, or is the final image more important than the words that make it up? Will you use color or just value? Will all your text be in the same font? What medium will you use? How will your image and text fill the page? What are you saying to your audience with the text you have selected and how you have chosen to represent it? |
By Bella Ross
“Would You be So Kind” by Dodi |
The class studied the work of contemporary artist Takashi Murakami. He works with several different mediums and combines pop culture images and historical and tradtional Japanese art work. Takashi Murakami uses his work to tell stories or events that he had experienced. The students needed to use a tradtional Murakami's use of mix media and pop culture as a jumping off point.
Students were able to experiment with many mediums such as watercolor, colored pencils, acrylic paint, Sharpie, and cut paper. All students made artwork that they were excited about due to the material variety and the ability to link thier artwork to the every day world around them. |
Takashi Murakami
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Zhou Fan is a Chinese painter who makes artwork that tells a story from dreams that he has had. These paintings look happy and cheerful at first glance because of the bright colors that are used, but in acutality, they have a sad undertone to them.
Students were taught how to draw a head in profile to make this project. When drawing a head in profile, students had to make the right proportions so that the heads were anatomically correct. To do this, they divided the head up into sections and then drew in the facial features later on. Following this, students had to come up with a theme; a variety of objects that were related to one another, and stack them on top of the head they've drawn. These objects had to make the artwork have more negative space than positive space, giving contrast between emptiness and detail. Therefore, these objects had to overlap and had to be close together. After drawing, students outlined their lines with a thin pen, and then colored them in with colored pencils. |
The class studied the art work of Judy Phaff a contemporary artist who works in a wide range of different mediums. The class focused on her paper and printmaking work from the series Year of The Dog.
Students learned how to make and print linoleum blocks. These were used to make a repeating element that students needed to include in their project. All students needed to come up with a concept for their work and use subject matter and colors that would help communicate their ideas. This large scale project (30"x20") had student working at new and chalanging scale. Students had to leave the comfort of working small to make somthing that can be seen from afar. |
After working from imagination and with a range of mediums, student switched gears and created paintings of objects from life. Students looked at the artwork of Philip Richardson, who created simple still lifes that are loose and focus on the complicated relationships of colors.
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Takashi Murakami
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