Art I students have been studying line drawings — blind contour, gesture, contour line drawings. They also experimented with different types of mediums in their sketchbooks such as pastel and watercolor. As a sort of finale to our study of line, students created line drawings and added color with either a watercolor wash or soft…
In Art I, we have just finished up our unit on color theory, which of course included the color wheel. I decided to do a small scale “creative color wheel” drawing this year, in hopes that we wouldn’t spend too much time on it, but still come out with a nice product. I found…
This year’s Youth Art Show was a once again a great success! As usual, I procrastinated until the last minute and stressed myself out a lot more than necessary. . .why, oh why, do I do that? But, it came together. It’s in the Fly Arts Center (a renovated turn-of-the-century factory) every year for a couple…
In Art I, we moved into the Italian Renaissance, really a vital and fascinating time in art. One of our discussions focused on Brunelleschi and his discovery of linear perspective, and the effect this had on art. Rather than focus on one-point perspective for a project, we worked with two-point perspective to create art galleries…
During their study of the Medieval period, Art I students had a comprehensive lesson on illuminated manuscripts. We began with the 7th and 8th c. insular manuscripts of the Celts and Anglo-Saxons and continued through the texts of the Gothic Age (1500s). Students looked at the entire process of creating illuminated manuscripts and how they functioned in Medieval society, as well as…
Art I students, during their study of the Gothic period in Medieval architecture, created lovely examples of stained glass windows. We modeled these after the enormous round windows typically found above European Gothic period cathedrals, referred to as Rose Windows. Students were asked to include the twelve-sectioned color wheel in their window. I chose a small format for…
My Art I students created these brilliant compositions after LOTS of hard work…I totally admire their dedication, patience, and skill. We reviewed the element of VALUE which involved creating value scales using different methods of shading. After studying ancient Greek art and architecture, we focused on the three types of capitals for our artwork: Doric,…
My Art I students recently studied Egyptian art and hieroglyphics, and we created a portrait in the style of traditional Egyptian art while reviewing basic elements like line, shape, and form. Students studied Egyptian portraiture, practiced drawing facial profiles, then created a portrait. They were required to add a headdress and pectoral decoration like that…
This is just really cool 🙂
