Advanced Art

Advanced Art warm up drawing due Monday, February 6th.

Amadeo Modigliani, Girl with Braids, oil on canvas, 1918.

Advanced Art homework drawing due Monday, February 6th.

Draw your favorite Valentine's day tradition.

Use colored pencils, fill the page and include a background.

Advanced Art

Advanced Art warm up drawing due Monday, January 30th.

Keith Haring, Statue of Liberty, 1986, screen printAdvanced Art homework drawing due Monday, January 30th.Draw your favorite winter/snow activity. Use colored pencils, include a background and fill the page.

Self-portrait relief prints

For this project, students were introduced to relief printmaking in the form of a self-portrait. Students were asked to make a line drawing from their photograph which was then transferred to their printing block/stamp. Students carved away everything except their lines after which they had to make 4 prints. Here is a sample of a finished carved stamp.Once all 4 prints were dry, students had to cut them out and add unrealistic colors with colored pencils to each of their prints. Finally they glued all 4 of their prints to a black background. The results are amazing!

Advanced Art

Advanced Art warm up drawing due Monday, January 23rd.

Victor Vasarely, Vasarely Planetary Folklore Participations No. 1, 1969, plastic, paper & metal.

Advanced Art homework drawing due Monday, January 23rd.

Draw yourself as a flower. Use colored pencils, fill the page and include a background.

Advanced Art

Advanced Art warm up drawing due Tuesday, January 17th.

Jim Dine, Colored Dots, 1967, woodcut.

Advanced Art homework drawing due Tuesday, January 17th.

Draw your New Years Resolutions.

Use colored pencils, fill the page and include a background.

Oil pastel animal drawings

Students began this project by learning 6 different oil pastel techniques and making four sketches of animals before starting their final. The final drawing was first completed with at least three different oil pastel techniques and then a final watercolor resist was added to finish the drawing.

Advanced Art

Adanced Art warm up drawing due Monday, January 10th.

Alexander Calder, Face, 1969, color lithograph.Advanced Art homework due Monday, January 10th.

Draw what you look forward to most during winter break.

Use colored pencils, fill the page and include a background.

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Advanced Art warm up drawing due Monday, December 12th.

Louise Nevelson, Night Leaf, 1969, plexiglasAdvanced Art homework drawing due Monday, December 12th.
Draw your christmas wishlist.
Use colored pencils, fill the page and include a background.

Advanced Art

Advanced Art warm up drawing due Monday, December 5th.

Henry Moore, Nuclear Energy, 1941, bronze.Advanced Art homework drawing due Monday, December 5th. Draw a winter wonderland. Use colored pencils, include a background, and fill the page.

Embossed Metal Encaustic

Students learned about and studied Vincent Van Gogh and his landscape paintings paying close attention to the actual textures he created using paint. Students then created four Van Gogh inspired landscape sketches, chose one and drew their final 6"x8" landscape drawing. Before given their final 6"x8" aluminum foil, they experimented on a smaller 4"x6" aluminum piece learning how to emboss the metal and complete the encaustic process. The process looks like this...Students set their 36 gauge aluminum on top of a skillet, set to low, held the metal from sliding with a pencil and added color by melting crayons on top of the metal.and here are some samples of the final embossed metal encaustic landscapes.