Final Portraits.

The 2009-2010 school year has come to a close!  Students finished their introduction to Drawing and Painting with a final portrait using a monochromatic color scheme with a focus on shape and value to create form.

Mustache = Extra Credit

The end of the year approaches and students are scrambling to raise their grades in Drawing & Painting.  Although my teaching philosophy does not believe in "extra credit" I did, however, make an exception for students donning mustaches*.

*just kidding.

Surreal Paintings

Students study Surrealism and create their own surreal painting using a collage they assembled for reference.

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!