Distorted Grid Drawings

Art/Craft students explore graphite for the first time this year and apply it to the method of distortion grid drawing to create interesting, abstracted portraits full of value.

Black & White Paintings

Drawing and Painting students have completed their first painting! After working with multiple drawing mediums, students have established strong drawing skills by concentrating on value, proportion and form. The students applied this knowledge to their first painting using only black and white paint. Limiting the paintings to only black and white allows the students to focus on value and form while becoming familiar with the physical nature of paint before exploring the complexity and challenges of painting in color.

Stencil Graffiti

The Graffiti Wall...becoming cooler.

After looking at urban street graffiti, students came to realize that "graffiti" is more than tagging words and gang related communication. The style of Stencil Graffiti is a world wide, underground art movement used to beautify the concrete jungles as well as communicate political, positive, ironic and satirical messages. These graffiti images are meant to make people think about the message, or just enjoy the imagery.

Students then created their own message or image through the stencil method and apply it to any surface using spray paint - once the stencil is created, the image can be repeated over and over.

Original Creativity

As the year goes on, students' technical skills and understanding of the arts grow and they begin to have the "tools" to develop their own visual voice.

Students study THE PRINCIPLES & ELEMENTS OF DESIGN and apply these concepts to their own original concepts using a variety of mediums, subjects and themes.