bonus day...

Wednesday after school, you may stay from 2:15 to 3:15 for an extra activity to earn extra credit for the end of the nine week.

AP Art week nine...

We will continue with our GRAISAILLE paintings this week in AP Art.

Art III week nine...

We will spend one last day in class working on our stipple drawing. CRITIQUE IS THURSDAY 10/4/12.

On Tuesday, we will spend several days working in our sketchbooks. 

• We will make TAPE TRANSFER for the cover.
• We will use the RULE OF THIRDS and the theme WEAVE as well.

Art IV week nine...

Art IV will find their inner zombies this week with oilstick or chalk pastel drawings. CRITIQUE on FRIDAY 10/5/12.

SCARY!

AP Art week eight...

AP Art will begin a new Breadth assignment this week. Their goal is to use architecture to demonstrate how light behaves. So their subject is architecture but their subject matter is how light reacts.

drawing will use acrylics

2-D will make a photo montage

Art IV week eight...

Art IV will spend one last day working on their still lifes. CRITIQUE IS THURSDAY, 9/27/12.

Beginning Tuesday, Art IV will work on portraits that show their INNER ZOMBIE. They will create portraits that demonstrate characteristics of a zombie: glazed eyes, sallow skin tones and thinning hair. The artwork will be displayed during AHS's first ever Zombie Prom sponsored by the Theater Department - more details to come.

Art III week eight...

still stippling!!

AP Art week seven...

We critiqued our still lifes on Monday - they really turned out fantastic.

Tuesday was movie day. We watched the film Empire of the Eye: The Magic of Illusion. A great documentary on the history of linear perspective.

Wednesday through Friday the students will create a drawing that exemplifies SHAPE TO FORM. 

Art IV week seven...

Art IV will work to complete their still life drawings with color and compositional formats.

Art III week seven...

Keep stippling!

Art IV and AP week six...

Art IV and AP students are continuing to work on their pattern/texture still life drawings.
AP Art will finish the drawing by the end of the week and CRITIQUE ON MONDAY 9/17/12.

Art III week six...

Stippling is a drawing technique that uses clusters of small dots to create the illusion of form and value. Art III students will use this technique over tea stained paper. Each student is working from a photo he/she took.

stipple example

detail

Art III week five...

After students complete their 'Review Collages', which are due Thursday, 9/6/12, they will make landscapes using NEVER DULL and PAGES FROM MAGAZINES.

 NEVER DULL +

 PAGES FROM A MAGAZINE =
 MAGICAL LANDSCAPES

AP Art & Art IV week five...

Art IV and AP Art will continue to explore pattern and texture with their still life drawings. They will use India Ink and and color medium of their choice to complete the assignment. One objective of the lesson is to juxtapose a flat picture plane with a suggestion of depth and space.

Here are some artists that did just that...            

Notice how Henri Matisse flattens the picture plane with the pattern on the wall and table but
suggests depth with the view out of the window.

Gustav Klimt pushes the boundaries of abstraction vs. realism when he juxtaposes a realistic figure
against such elaborate patterns. Beautiful!