1. Takashi Murakami
2. Andy Warhol
3. James Rosenquist
4. Jasper Johns
In our painting class, we first worked to mix colors to understand color theory and how to create a color wheel. Students mixed the primary colors: red, blue and yellow to make the secondary colors: orange, purple and green and then mixed the secondary colors with the primary to make the intermediate colors. To create each color wheel, students listed things that were popular to them now. We are focusing on Pop Art, which was an art movement that focused on everyday and popular things in culture at the time. Some of the most famous pop artists in the 1950's and 60's were Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg. Students also did a Prezi presentation on a chosen artist to share more information about pop art and a specific artist's work. Here are the links to the Prezis:
1. Takashi Murakami 2. Andy Warhol 3. James Rosenquist 4. Jasper Johns
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We are focusing on the Principles of Design in Art Foundations II. The principles of design are 'how we use or organize the elements in our artwork.' The 1st principle we have worked with is balance. We learned and practiced drawing symmetrical, asymmetrical and radial balance. Students chose a water reflection image to enlarge into a chalk drawing. We practiced with oil pastels and chalk pastels to see what would work the best for the image.
Two seniors are taking an independent study art class this semester. They have each designed and created their 1st project. One student experimented with colored and black ink for the first time and made a wolf ink drawing/painting. Another student created an abstract mosaic design using different small pieces.
High school seniors taking Independent Study Art last semester created artistic portraits of 2 children from Colombia. The portraits were delivered in December and it was very successful! They loved the gifts and were so excited to get them. The Memory Project organization was able to donate $5,300 to support feeding programs and early education programs in Colombia. What a blessing our students can be through art! In 3D Art, students worked with games in a new way. Each student had to use a board game, cards or game pieces to create a 3D sculpture. You will see a clock, shelf, birdhouse, chair, TIE fighter, hanging tree sculpture and creative 3D initial. Hopefully you'll enjoy these games as much as the students did! Students had fun with this project! We learned about 2 styles of art: Dada and Surrealism. Students created sculptures that were surprising or shocking. They also thought about a special meaning or idea they wanted to communicate. Do these sculptures make sense? Are they surprising or strange? If so, these students created DADA art! In Computer Graphics, the last project students worked on was a yearbook design. We looked at some examples and students had freedom in choosing the theme or slogan for the cover. Students used skills they had learned throughout the semester to create the design in Gimp. One of these may be the cover of the next high school yearbook! Here are the final student-designed projects for 1st semester. They both chose a dragon as inspiration.
In Art Foundations, we were learning about how we use space to create the illusion of depth. We also looked at how we can describe space as being positive or negative. For the 1st space project, we looked at Japanese Notan designs and how they created a balance of light and dark and equal space for the light and dark part of the design. We also looked at 6 ways to create space in a drawing. Linear perspective, overlapping, size, placement, value or color and detail can help us show depth in an artwork. Students created an artwork that used many of these ways of showing space. We practiced some new colored pencil techniques and used exaggerated and fun color in this artwork.
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