Advanced Painting students recently finished these fantastic celebrity portraits! This lesson focuses on a monochromatic color scheme, and the Pop Art movement of the 1950’s and 60’s – particularly the graphic art of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and the like. I closely followed Kim Bartel’s great lesson on The Incredible Art Department’s website. After a couple of…
The theme of this years International Aviation Art contest was “Air Sports,” which of course encompassed all manner of different subject matter. Students illustrated everything from hot air balloons to blimps to jet air shows with enthusiasm (for the most part ;}), and skill. Here are a few examples from this year’s entries. Well done!!!
Micrography is a lovely art form that dates back thousands of years in Hebrew culture. It can also be seen in Arabic culture. This form of art is much like stippling in its use of letters and words to create value and texture; however the use of text allows for a rich, unique interplay between text…
This lovely drawing was created by Art II Drawing student Hannah Calvert. She entered it into Tennessee Magazine’s story illustration contest, and was awarded 1st place! Congrats, Hannah!
Advanced Drawing students have created some really nice fallish compositions using mini pumpkins. After studying shading techniques, we focused on stippling for this project, emphasizing the importance of observation. These were rendered in Black ink and colored pencil, chalk pastel in a couple of cases. We focused on visual rhythm or repetition, creating a strong…
Art II Drawing students have been studying value and basic shading techniques. We did a collaborative whole-class artwork that really turned out beautifully–and was a good teaching tool to show how important the element of value is to successful artwork. Each student was given a 1″x1″ square cut from a black and white copy of…
This is just really cool 🙂
Yesterday being “International Peace Day,” as it were, we, along with some of the other art classes in our district, made pinwheels for an installation in front of the Fly Arts Center here in town. Who doesn’t love a pinwheel? The templates were available on the organization’s website. Enjoy the pictures! …
