Achromatic Portraits

Intro painting students complete their first painted portrait using black and white acrylic paint. 
Students focused on proportion and creating three-dimensional form in their faces.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blind Contour Portraits

      Students worked "blind" as they drew self portraits without looking at the drawing paper.  Using a mirror, they were instructed to trace their face with their eyes and observe the actual shapes and lines they see and draw them without picking up their drawing tool, or looking at the drawing paper.  To insure that students did not "cheat", their papers were placed inside a paper bag while they drew.

      Students drew with a wax crayon, and then finished the portrait using watercolor to obtain interesting facial tones which resisted the wax lines so as not to loose the original expressive quality of the automatic drawing.

Block Printing

     Students have their first experience working with Printmaking through the simple block print method. This project teaches how to understand positive and negative space and challenges students to understand how to engineer a block print to communicate the space accurately.

Watercolors

  Beginning painting students begin to explore watercolor!

Graffiti Wall

 

The graffiti wall is filling up in its third year!  

Students also designed shirts using their stencils!

 

2010 Scholastics AWARDS!!!!

Scholastics is an annual, state wide art competition which showcases the best of the best at the high school level.  Two Montbello students have proudly received awards:

An Honorable Mention and the highest award of a Gold Key!

"Cafe at Night" (inspired by Van Gogh's Cafe at Night)

GOLD KEY WINNER!

12th Grader Saravuth Vong

This piece will be sent on to compete at the regional level

"Sofa Girl"

HONORABLE MENTION

12th Grader Edgar Medrano

Faces of Montbello

 

Self Portraits in Colored Pencil!